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Since the official start of summer arrived with Memorial Day, grilling season and fresh fundamentals are helping ignite a new rally in cattle markets.

Jury selection started Wednesday in a more than $1 billion defamation case over ABC news reports on a South Dakota meat producer’s lean, finely textured beef product, which critics have dubbed “pink slime.” The trial in state court is scheduled to last until late July.

Interest driven by export potential, Ontilcor director says.

China will finally open its borders to U.S. beef while cooked Chinese poultry is closer to hitting the U.S. market as part of a U.S.-China trade agreement.

The Commerce Department is setting a date to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. beef.

Deep snow is melting into western mountain streams, but some farmers and ranchers on the high plains are struggling amid a lengthy dry spell and the aftermath of destructive wildfires.

North Dakota cattle producers are cheering the latest industry development — the reopening of the Chinese market to U.S. beef.

Dryness is intensifying in the northern Plains, and cattlemen and grain markets are responding.

Beef trade protocols with China have been finalized by USDA.

USDA published details for traceability of American meat.