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Four months after announcing a trade agreement lifting longstanding restrictions on U.S. beef exported to Japan, the U.S. has agreed to increase its low-tariff quota for Japanese beef shipped to America.

Animal welfare, sustainability and economics are affected when beef cattle suffer from bovine respiratory disease, or BRD.

After a rancher told the Otero County, Colo., sheriff his 13-year-old son was shot at while checking cattle, authorities initiated an investigation that has uncovered dozens of illegal marijuana cultivation plots.

We’ve all seen the headlines over the years, and some very recent, about professional dissatisfaction and burnout among veterinarians.

In the United States, tick-borne disease cases more than doubled, from 22,000 in 2004 to more than 48,000 in 2016, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

U.S. cattle on feed Sept. 1, 2019, were estimated at 11.0 million head, down 1% from a year ago, USDA reports.

Beef production will increase this year, and that remains a key driver for the price of fed cattle.

Stocker and feeder cattle prices were $2 to $7 higher at auction across the nation. Abundant forage conditions has left ranchers in no hurry to sell cattle.

All cattle feeding areas were able to take advantage of the packer’s need for cattle last week and cash prices moved higher.

The September Cattle on Feed report highlights some regional differences in the current feedlot situation among the four largest feeding states.