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There’s an assignment for its students that lasts year-round to spark interest in agriculture. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben shows us putting its own flair on the farm to fork movement.

Competition is growing for meat from alternative sources.

Anthony Francis Whittley and Jasmine A. Boone, both 28, have entered guilty pleas after stealing cattle from Kansas and attempting to sell them across state lines at the Oklahoma National Stockyards Co.

South Carolina has passed a new law that keeps protein grown in a laboratory from stem cells as advertising as “meat.”

After more than 200 cattle died on a feedlot in Nebraska, the cattle feeder who was responsible for the animals’ care has pleaded not guilty to 40 charges he faces in the alleged livestock neglect case.

Check to make sure you are handling, storing and using vaccines properly. Here’s a quick tip sheet to make sure you do everything to keep vaccines effective.

Fire consumed a tractor trailer fire hauling straw in Missouri last week—one more reminder to keep hay equipment in good condition. Short supplies of hay, forage and crops mean every bale is valuable.

Beef production, and I agriculture in general, has become a pretty contentious issue over the past several years. Most often, the criticism is directed at us while we try to defend ourselves in a graceful manner.

Despite finding that 7 in 10 producers said the current economic recession had impacted their operations negatively, their approval of the beef checkoff increased from 68% in 2009 to 69% in 2010.

Veterinarians have seen a spike in confirmed cases of anthrax this summer in various regions of the country.