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Ron Rabou spent the first 26 years of his life expecting to return to his family ranch. When his dad passed and it came time to transition the farm, negotiations weren’t as easy as he imagined. Here’s what he learned.

One more column on the OFF Act regarding the coalition of groups that have some “dubious partners” with “questionable motives,” Speer says.

USMEF Spring Conference guest speaker Kenneth Smith Ramos, a former chief NAFTA negotiator for Mexico, says ag trade has thrived under NAFTA and its successor pact, USMCA, bolstering food security across the continent.

“It is time for members of Congress to listen to those they truly represent,” says R-CALF president Brett Kinzey, “the people whose passion and time is centered on their fields and pastures, not inside the Beltway.”

For the second time in a decade, drought has pushed cattle numbers in the U.S. lower than planned and lower than needed to meet the demands of the market.

The current front-end supply and winter delayed calf-feds have the northern packers stretched for inventory. Will that aid feeders’ ability to push prices higher in the coming weeks?

USDA announces an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a neurologic disease of cattle, in an approximately five-year-old or older beef cow at a slaughter plant in South Carolina.

Cash cattle traded steady to higher with futures prices trading higher for the week. Wholesale beef prices finished the week near steady.

According to Iowa State University’s David Verhoeven, vaccines using mRNA technology have been shown to reduce disease on farms, and it’s all but impossible for them to end up in your food.