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Demand for organic ingredients have pushed vanilla prices higher—a conundrum if you’re committed to natural and organic food, yet realize vanilla is produced in Third World countries by people making pennies a day.
While food companies are currently focused on millennials – because they currently have the buying power – Generation Z is looming on the not so distant horizon.
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report, released at 11:00 a.m. CST May 25, fell mostly in line with trade expectations.
Does xanthan gum, a synthetic substance, disqualify Tyson’s 100% All Natural Batter Dipped Chicken Tenders as “all natural?”
Cattle supplies are on the rise with more cattle being placed in feedlots leading to some discrepancies in the futures and cash market.
A recent study says pesticide levels in organically grown foods is equal to conventionally grown foods. Yes, consumers are paying more for organic foods that still use pesticides. But that won’t change their minds.
The Cattle on Feed report has been on a continual increasing trend since December 2016 and the current April inventory is the highest for the month in 12 years.
A man in Texas went to jail after he admitted to stealing six head of cattle during a drunken conversation and two of his fellow cattle rustlers are in trouble, too.
JBS USA has recalled approximately 35,464 lb. of raw ground beef following the finding of hard plastic in contaminated beef.
The legal case for an investment fraud scheme involving the resale of cattle is starting to come together as a man posing as a veterinarian has admitted to his participation in the scheme.
In this story from the Arkansas Farm Bureau, a cattle producer is demonstrating his involvement in the local food movement.
If you’re busy planting corn or calving cows this week, rejoice. The end of those chores is near. Scientists, entrepreneurs, and activists are building an animal-free food system.
What would P.T. Barnum say today? Every day brings news that there really is a sucker born every minute.
While we applaud the court’s dressing-down of PETA, we must recognize the influence they and other like-minded groups have cast on consumers.
New technologies will never be in short supply. Some will forever change how we raise top quality cattle and beef.
Baxter Black is back this week on U.S. Farm Report.
Marty Robert Maahs, 33, turned himself into the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department on April 12 after a warrant was issued for allegedly embezzling more than $1 million from a bank loan involving cattle.
The sudden death of more than a dozen cows leads a Kansas ranch on a frustrating odyssey.
Farm state legislators have asked for a review of whether the acquisition of National Beef by a Brazilian company threatens the U.S. food supply.
Buffalo gnats, or black flies, were blamed for deaths of cattle, horses and deer in Arkansas earlier this year. Now researchers want to quantify the risks and see what control efforts were effective.
Cricket flour is reportedly one of the novel protein sources PepsiCo is testing for use as an ingredient in snack foods such as Cheetos and Quaker Granola Bars.
In her research report, Chesney Reeves, a high school student from Central City, Neb., says coccidia was present in 100% of the pens tested and in over 50% of the samples from every pen.
A feedlot in southeastern Washington has settled a fine imposed by the state after allegedly failing to manage air pollution.
If you love cute animals, click here. If you don’t love cute animals, click anyway and we’ll try and change your mind.
NCBA encourages USDA to look beyond modifying “standards of identity” in order to provide adequate protection for beef producers and consumers.
A rancher in northeast Oregon has been granted the right to kill two wolves by state officials following an attack on calves in his cow herd.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says supply and demand factors led to the dramatic cattle price decline from 2013 to 2016.
New supplements offer value but producers need to determine costs and potential returns for practices they adopt
The addition of the two Cattle Empire yards boosts Friona Industries to the nation’s second-largest cattle feeding entity.
Whether you measure ranch output by the animal unit or the acre, market weight is undeniably one of the primary factors in cattle profit/loss equations.