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Bart and Wendy Morris run Oxbow Cattle Company in Missoula, Montana, with an innovative approach to community outreach—their f2m store.

Part 3: Animal genetics

The key to making cattle more competitive in the bidding world is in their genetics, and the growing programs that document them.

Agricultural Marketing Service reporters said the market was most active on “lightweight cattle, in light flesh, as numbers of those cattle are not as plentiful as their heavier mates.”

Researchers Identify Genomic Markers for Risk of Bovine Congestive Heart Failure

The 420,000-acre Brewster Ranch, now for sale in far West Texas, was assembled over several years by Kentucky businessman Brad Kelley.

Cattle feeders were unable to push the cash market higher, settling for mostly steady money as packers were noticeably less aggressive with much narrower profit margins.

A pair of lawsuits filed last year involving a packing company and two producers have been dismissed following a confidential settlement.

Lawyers for America’s largest beef packing companies asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the class action suit filed against them by a group of ranchers last year.

Whether you are in the commercial, seedstock or feedlot sector of the cattle industry, carcass data collection could benefit your business.