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While a backlog of ships may not be grabbing headlines compared to 2020, the labor uncertainty is impacting U.S. red meat exports, says Dan Halstrom, USMEF president and CEO.

The area was hit especially hard by historic rains on Friday. It is home to several feedyards, with owners and operators trying to assess the number of cows lost due to flood waters rising so quickly.

Governor Mauro Mendes of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, recently met with the Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen at the 2023 Water for Food Global Conference to discuss opportunities for partnership between the two states.

Calving season can be an exhausting time on the ranch, especially when cows experience difficulty giving birth.

China’s exports to Russia reached a record high in April, amounting to $9.6 billion.

Packers unexpectedly found themselves chasing a limited supply of higher-grading cattle last week and the result was sharply higher prices in the North.

The price spread between Northern cash cattle sales and Southern sales more than doubles as packers struggle to find inventory to maintain acceptable capacity utilization.

Keith Harmoney, K-State range scientist in Hays, has developed a decision tree that provides some guidelines given a pasture’s current soil moisture condition and the relative level of stress on the pasture last year.

Careful evaluation of your production system permits you to identify the traits of primary economic importance.