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The feed cost environment for 2013-2014 is dramatically different compared to last year.

New owners are opening a new slaughterhouse operation inside a former kosher beef slaughterhouse in northwest Nebraska.

More than 450 bred cattle and 150 heifer calves have been donated to South Dakota ranchers who lost livestock in the rare blizzard, the Rapid Journal reports. The cows have come from at least 10 states and 300 donors.

Feed and forage represents your largest annual production costs, and they provide the greatest opportunity for you to make significant changes in a short period of time.

During the last 90 days, Merck Animal Health, with the input and oversight of its Advisory Board, has worked to implement its Five-Step Plan to Ensuring Responsible Beef and has made considerable progress.

Relief efforts have been setup for both North and South Dakota to aid ranchers in need after the brutal October blizzard.

Ranchers in South Dakota are still waiting to see if they will receive any federal aid after losing cattle in an October blizzard.

There are herds of cattle on a pair of remote Alaska islands that have survived for decades despite any number of threats to their existence.

Montana ranchers have donated 45 head of cattle for breeding stock to their South Dakota counterparts who lost thousands of cattle in a freak blizzard in October.

If there are any lessons that can be learned from the past few years of sparse rainfall it’s that recovering from drought requires proper management.