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“Economic and political order has become disorder,” Dan Basse, president of AgResource told attendees at the recent Feeding Quality Forum during his keynote address.

Alternative protein products may have drawn rave reviews and national headlines this year, but research says consumers still prefer real beef produced on real farms.

USCA calls on the USDA and the CFTC to “convene cattle market participants to discuss concerns related to price transparency and true price discovery.”

It all boils down, so the speak, to basic science.

This summer’s outbreak of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) appears to be losing steam, with no new states reporting positive cases in the USDA’s latest weekly situation report.

You may think you’re feeding cattle, but new research suggests the key is the rumen microbes within those cattle. Technology is providing a research breakthrough.

New research looks at the concept of progressively reducing feed intake throughout the diet-transition period in feedlots, with the goal of maintaining a constant body size.

Poor performance from CME futures on Friday limited what cattle feeders could gain back on the cash market from the declines over the last few weeks.

Calves weaned 45 days or longer have a health advantage over calves weaned for a month or less, or those weaned on the way to the auction.

An early peek at winter grazing budgets highlights the huge uncertainty impacting feeder cattle markets, including grain markets and global economic turmoil.