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A North Dakota company that has sent thousands of the state’s winter-hardy cows to Kazakhstan since 2010 has yet to ink a deal this year with the oil-rich country.
Strong cattle prices open door to performing management practices that could make a good year even better.
A South Dakota State University adjunct economics professor says cattle feeding margins moved back into the black in the first quarter of 2014 after nearly three years of deep losses.
Corbitt Wall with USDA Market News gives the Weekly Feeder and Stocker Weekly Summary for the week ending April 11.
A rebuilding cattle herd and foreign demand have taken the beef industry to prices not seen since 1987.
Ohio cattle producers have voted to increase beef checkoff in their state.
Weather will dictate if the U.S. beef herd is rebuilt.
Forage and livestock producers who want to learn about the role forage quality plays in meat quality can attend the Indiana Forage Council seminar.
Quality characteristics, tenderness and value of beef are similar from steers and heifers.
The U.S. and Japan still face “considerable” differences in reaching an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership regional trade pact two weeks before President Barack Obama pays a state visit.
Uniformity or consistency may be desirable in both management and marketing aspects of cattle production.
Friday’s jobs report was somewhat encouraging. More people with jobs is positive for meat demand.
A San Francisco company has finalized purchase of the failed Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen, S.D.
Rabobank has published a new report on the global beef industry, forecasting continued strong market fundamentals and continued strong global demand led by the Chinese market.
Japan and Australia reached broad agreement on bilateral trade after seven years of wrangling, in a pact that will lower or eliminate tariffs.
In response to the announcement of a Bilateral Trade Agreement reached between Australia and Japan, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) President Bob McCan, a Victoria, Texas cattleman issued the following statement.
A federal appeals court ruling Friday allows the government to go forward with rules that require labels on packaged steaks, ribs and other cuts of meat to say where the animals were born, raised and slaughtered.
Look for record high beef prices to continue.
This is Part 3 of a three part series that will provide information on meat labeling terms.
A manager of a Cabell County, W. Va., meat processing shop says 10 cattle belonging to customers have been stolen from the shop’s livestock pens.
A steer that made a break for it while on the way to slaughter in North Dakota has been adopted by a Michigan farm animal sanctuary and spared from the butcher knife.
Officials in the central Iowa town of Tama are optimistic that an idle beef processing plant will reopen soon and add hundreds of jobs.
The pasture-to-table enterprise taps into a growing demand for high-quality, affordable, locally raised beef.
A University of Missouri beef economist’s outlook shows a $250 return per cow in the coming year. In the previous beef cycle, returns topped at under $100 per cow.
Greeley, Colorado’s JBS USA meat-packing plant has promised to take steps to prevent animal cruelty after a worker struggled to kill an injured cow.
Federal officials have approved a Northern California company’s plans to take over a shuttered slaughterhouse that was at the center of a major beef recall.
There are more cattle on feed in South Dakota now than last year.
