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Russia wants to rebuild its beef industry and state officials from Kansas, Montana and South Dakota visited the country in the hopes of selling genetics.

A crime that was at the center of many Western movies is thriving in modern-day California as reports of cattle rustling are on the rise, state livestock officials said.

Ranchers in South Dakota are finding ways to persevere after October’s early blizzard.

Landowners and others who opposed transferring Yellowstone National Park bison to Indian reservations in northern Montana have asked a state judge to declare that any bison captured outside the park should be considered livestock rather than wildlife.

State Veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven said Thursday he now estimates that 15,000 to 30,000 cattle died in the early autumn blizzard that buried western South Dakota in snow nearly two weeks ago.

Attorneys have asked that a minimum bid of $12.75 million be set for an idled South Dakota beef packing plant at an auction scheduled for Dec. 5.

The Montana Farm Bureau has dropped out of a lawsuit that seeks to block bison from roaming outside Yellowstone National Park.

The King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management is offering a new joint program with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association that will help recognize and cultivate future leaders of the beef industry.

Thirteen ranching and agricultural professionals received the Texas AgFinance Certificate in Advanced Ranch Management at the 10th Annual Holt Cat Symposium on Excellence in Ranch Management.

More than two dozen foreigners who took part in an investment-for-green-cards immigration program had their $500,000 contributions transferred to a South Dakota beef plant after initially committing their funds for other projects, according to state records.