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At the meatcase, Certified Hereford Beef® is one way the nation’s cattle producers are capitalizing on a great eating experience – and building a positive story about how their product is raised.

Boxed beef cutout values continue to perform like the early days of Bitcoin trading, with Choice advancing $84 per cwt. since last Friday.

COVID-19, freeze risks, USDA report and government influence on agriculture are all weighing on the markets this week.

A treatment for sick cattle that almost always works….suddenly almost never works? It happens when bacteria find ways to defeat the antimicrobial.

The cattle industry sees a glimmer of hope in last week’s harvest data, with estimated slaughter at 452,000 head, down 32.2 percent year-over-year, but up 6.4 percent from the prior week.

Gardiner Angus Ranch’s 5th Annual “Meating Demand” bull sale saw 159 20-month-old bulls ready to turn on summer pastures sell along with 108 bred commercial Angus females.

The reduced number of cattle harvested wasn’t a surprise with the issues that all packers have faced in the past few weeks with COVID-19.

While dairymen have used artificial insemination, or AI, profitably for decades, beef producers are starting to show more interest, and for good reasons.

Dan Thomson, host of DocTalk TV, is settling in to his new role as chair of the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University.

Healthy animals perform best, but the emerging field of animal-welfare science suggests their mental health plays a key role that might be measured.