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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Aggie Beef 706 program will be held virtually. Ranchers, educators and allied business people are invited to learn the same valuable concepts traditionally taught in Beef 706.

Since the week of May 16 when the beef cutout hit record highs, the price has fallen 56%. Simultaneously, weekly beef production has increased 29% and carcass weights are averaging 37 pounds more than last year.

Cattle on feed in feedyards with 1,000 or more head totaled 11.4 million July 1, the second highest inventory since the series began in 1996.

Cash fed cattle prices are slowly but steadily pushing higher with prices in the North at a premium to prices paid to southern feedyards.

Conducting an inventory of your forage supplies now will give your a good idea of possible deficiencies and allow time to develop the best options for the upcoming feeding season.

Drought increases the chance of nitrate poisoning and prussic acid poisoning. High concentrations in plants and water can harm or even kill animals.

“Many trial courts in Texas have been resistant to allowing landowners to fully challenge a private entity’s use of eminent domain,” says Texas lawyer James D Bradbury. “This opinion changes that.”

Kara Lee shares details for this year’s Feeding Quality Forum webinar series. The shortened agenda brings a range of topics covering on-target information for high-quality cattle production.

The written public comment period on the DGAC’s Scientific Report ends on August 13, 2020 and NCBA is calling on beef producers to submit their comments for consideration.

Cattle markets rallied again the first full week of August with both fed cattle and feeders reported at $3 per cwt. higher.