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Coming soon to your grocery store and dining table: steak from cattle born and raised in Florida.

Cattle feeders are also looking to improve margins which have slowly but surely improved.

Low-stress livestock handling suffers from many common misconceptions, mostly as a consequence of its name.

Concerns about livestock prices took some air out of the Purdue/CME Ag Economy Barometer, pushing the new index down to 97 in May from April’s 106.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has authorized killing four wolves after ranchers near Lander, Wyo. have had three verified livestock killings by the animals.

Summer heat waves pose a serious danger to cattle in feedlots.

Will prices continue to decline, or will they trade steady or find support between May and October? That is a tough question at this point, but it is hard to imagine further significant declines at this time.

More than half a century after its discovery, bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) still wages war on cattle health and producers’ livelihoods.

It seems certain that herd expansion has slowed to a snail’s pace compared to one year ago, but from a historical standard, expansion is likely still moving at a fairly rapid clip.

Cattle on feed continues to increase, while drought conditions go away in the Northern and Southern Plains.