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APHIS’ Wildlife Services and its cooperators will begin distributing baits on or about August 2 across rural areas by airplanes and in suburban or urban areas by helicopters, vehicles and bait stations.

The United States will nearly triple its annual duty-free beef exports to the European Union (EU) over the next seven years under a new trade agreement signed at the White House.

Feeder steers sold steady to $2 higher, with instances of heavier cattle selling $6 to $7 higher in special sales in the Southern Plains.

In the cattle and beef industry, widely varying seasonal price patterns exist for all classes of cattle as well as for each of the many beef products produced in the industry.

Packers enjoyed a comfortable inventory last week, and many have stopped Saturday harvests, which helped push cash cattle prices $1 per cwt. lower.

Cattle feeders’ perseverance paid dividends as they held out for steady to higher cash trade in all feeding regions.

Beyond Meat reported its second-quarter earnings on Monday, and traders called the news mixed.

Taco Bell says it plans to reduce antibiotics in its global beef supply 25% by 2025, a change it says will affect 9.8 million daily orders.

As the summer progresses, insect-borne vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) appeared in Wyoming for the first time this year and spread to new premises in Texas.

Animal-health officials suspect the Asian longhorned tick could be transmitting a foreign animal disease in Virginia.