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This is New Year’s week and the number of cattle reports is smaller than normal.

A new packing plant in Idaho and boxed beef prices going up for three weeks are good news for cattle producers.

More than 150 cattle valued at about $350,000 have been reported missing in southeastern Idaho, and authorities suspect modern-day cattle rustling as beef prices have soared.

The $1.1 trillion omnibus package passed by the Senate on Saturday held several strong wins for the cattle industry.

State livestock officials are reporting for the second time in less than two weeks that they’ve found the disease brucellosis in a Montana cattle herd.

Farmers and ranchers across Kansas are wrapping up the 2014 growing season, marked by rapidly changing fortunes that were buffeted by weather and markets.

The 2014 beef market had one common theme: record prices. From those record prices there are some lessons to be learned.

The record high beef prices that were the norm for much of the year have continued to drop off.

Most of 2014 saw record high prices, but the downward trend in the beef and cattle markets looks like it could carry into the New Year.

As 2014 ends, cow calf producers are thinking about the approaching calving season.