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January may seem early to start planning grazing for the coming growing season but the ability to minimize non-grazing feed costs will depend on comprehensive grazing plans and management for the entire year.

Improving prices for live cattle and wholesale beef lifted margins for both feeders and packers. Pork producers also found improved margins but remain in the red.

Packers came into the market last week ready to add inventory after winter storms disrupted harvest schedules the previous two weeks.

Bimeda, Inc. announces BOVitalize™ an oral vitamin and mineral supplement for beef and dairy cows, bulls and ruminating calves.

Missouri’s drought in 2022 and 2023 may have been underrated, says Eric Bailey, University of Missouri Extension. He offers tips for stretching your feed during the next few months.

The January thaw across most of the cattle feeding regions helped spur the year’s first weekly gains for market-ready cattle. The rally was noticed by traders in Chicago as futures markets posted 10-week highs.

Essentials of Regenerative Ranching will be offered Feb. 21-22 in New Braunfels, Texas.

Gardiner Angus Ranch’s seventh Early Bird Sale saw a total of 474 head sell to 122 buyers from 22 states and Mexico in four hours.

Emergency management officials are advising landowners in five Texas counties to remove livestock from flood-prone areas due to excessive rainfall upstream over the last three days.

The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association recognized Keith Stevens, a Bolivar, Missouri, cattle producer as the state’s cattleman of the year.