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Following over a year of drought, a recent poll of Drovers readers shared pasture conditions across the U.S and Canada. With varying degrees of improvement, here’s an inside look at current pasture and range conditions.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led 16 states in a letter to U.S. Congressional leadership, urging the passage of the EATS Act. “California’s radical-drafted requirements for farmers are hog wild,” the authors wrote.

Gregg Doud, who led often-intense discussions with China between 2018 and 2020 as the chief agricultural negotiator for the U.S., will deliver the Henry C. Gardiner Global Food Systems lecture at Kansas State University.

In early 2022, a possible trucker shortage grabbed headlines, but John Phipps says even today, there isn’t much hard data to substantiate that alarm.

Dynamic cattle and grain market conditions mean that producers will need to carefully and frequently evaluate stocker budget prospects this fall prior to stocker purchase.

Cattle inventories simply are not large enough for the packer to build any market leverage. Reluctantly, packers bought cattle at steady to higher money and cowboys will seek more this week.

A microscopic species of algae is causing toxic algal blooms affecting two dozen states in the U.S., New research into the genetic diversity of the responsible organism could help predict when blooms will occur.

Less than a month before an Arizona rancher is set to stand trial in the shooting death of an illegal immigrant, prosecutors will ask the court to dismiss one of the two charges.