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Take the time to evaluate your operation and make sure it is prepared to go where you want it to go in the future.

One possibility to reduce feed costs is to use commodities that are available at salvage value.

It’s often in the moments you least expect, that someone is watching and learning from what you’re doing. As a mom of three, I think about that a lot.

Hogs placed for finishing last week had a breakeven at $69.49 per head. The estimated total cost for finishing a steer last week was $2,702 per head, according to the Sterling Profit Trackers.

Funding will expand innovative domestic fertilizer production and increase independent meat and poultry processing capacity, which will in turn increase competition and lower fertilizer costs for farmers and food costs for consumers.

U.S. Beef and Pork were on the world stage at the SIAL Paris food trade shows.

According to a CSU study presented at the 2024 BIF Symposium, heart failure can occur at any type of operation, at any age, and any level of altitude.

Two land sales last week came in at a whopping $17,000 per acre, and one in Iowa topped $20,0000 just this week.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture says it euthanized roughly 1.3 million chickens after Pure Prairie Poultry said in late September it could no longer afford to buy feed for the company’s flock across 14 Iowa farms.