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Divestment plan leads to ownership changes for 11 feedlots

While corn, soybeans and wheat have seen some slight rallies in the last few years, prices have stayed relatively low. Record- or near record-breaking crops year after year hasn’t been much help to the price picture. 

Ranchers in western Texas want local culinary students to know more than how to cook a good steak.

Bluefield Technologies plans to use methane-sensing satellites.

Block Trades Come to Agriculture, Sparking Transparency Concern

Temperatures seen 15 to 25 degrees below normal, NWS says.

McDonald's tests fresh beef in another burger

On Mikey Taylor’s farmland, cover crops and livestock are the vehicle to building high-potential soils.

The rancher from western Wyoming wears tan overalls pulled over a U.S. ski team jacket, and is every bit as versed in the nuances of hay farming as the subtleties of snow grooming.

Crop protein content ties for lowest in decades on bad weather.

The 2017 cattle markets have been interesting, and since November 1, Elaine Kub, author of Mastering the Grain Markets, can describe them in one word: wild.

Nine months have passed since wildfires charred parts of the central and southern Plains during a three-day span of furious fire.  Now, a proposed disaster relief package may offer more help to ranchers in need. The House recently unveiled a disaster aid plan to help cover some of the cost of hurricanes and wildfires the country faced in 2017.  House Republicans are releasing an $81 billion disaster aid package, funding that’s nearly twice the request the White House made.  The money could be split between a host of federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Agriculture. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben looks at how producers in Kansas and Oklahoma are recovering and still rebuilding.  She talks with Dr. Randall Spare, a veterinarian from the Ashland Veterinary Center, and producers Jenny Betschart in Ashland, Kansas and Bernie Smith in Beaver County, Oklahoma.

Cargill Goes Tech With Plan to Nurture New Wave of Food Startups

Could dinner talk help bust through a NAFTA impasse?

Forest Service using new tech for post-fire work in Montana

Billions in breaks for energy sought in ‘tax extenders’ bill.

Livestock producers struggle to rebuild their operations with few resources to date

Wayne Springer is tired of paying $300 for a bag of traited corn seed. Unafraid to change horses in midstream, the 60-year-old producer is transitioning from a row crop farm to a ranching operation.

March 6, 2017 is a day Beaver County, Okla., rancher and volunteer fire chief Bernie Smith will always remember. That day wildfires tore through the central and southern Plains. Nearly 2 million acres across four states were scorched by fast moving fires that month. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben and national videographer Russ Hnatusko report over Smith’s recollection of the fire, his future and why he’s thankful this Thanksgiving.

Nebraska Teen Takes over Family Farm while Father is ill

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The cattle herd in the U.S. is growing, and cash prices for fed and feeder cattle have exceeded expectations this fall as live and feeder cattle futures reached a new contract high to start November.

Wild fires burned in Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas earlier this year, destroying thousands of acres in its path.

JBS Says It's Done With Asset Sales as Earnings Boost Outlook

U.S. Is Said to Propose Freezing Mexican Trucks Out of New Nafta

China's largest online retailer to buy Montana beef

There was some red during the trading day on Tuesday, but in general the cattle markets have remained strong since Oct. 23. 

An Australian woman is making her mark on the usually male-dominated cattle buying industry to keep her family’s business afloat.

As grain prices remain fairly stagnant, momentum is gaining in the cattle complex. Cattle futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) are on fire this week after hitting contract highs. It’s the livestock sector carrying agriculture’s balance sheet the latter half of 2017 -  a trend that could continue to wrap up the year.

The cattle herd is finally recovering from the severe drought that the northern Plains experienced earlier this year. This drought is still a reality, hitting portions of South Dakota hard.

Rural Americans voted for him, but he didn’t return the favor when it came to an Obama rule meant to level the playing field.

Tyson has narrowed down its search for a packing plant location in Kansas.

The fight over Costco's chicken processing operation — already approved by the city of Fremont and the state of Nebraska — is now moving to the county level.

What should have been good news for the grain and oilseed markets ended up having the opposite effect as we ended the week down, sharply down some cases says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group. 

Veggie Burger That Bleeds Is Making Its Way to Cafeteria Lunches

Prices were higher for all classes of cattle for the week ended Oct. 13, with cash fed cattle trading at $111 per cwt., $2 higher. Cattle sold on a dressed basis at $175 per cwt., $2 to $3 higher.  

Workable free trade relationships are critical to U.S. cattle producers.

American Beef Shipments to Japan Bypass Tariff Roadblock

Buying grain to feed livestock can be expensive, but there are ways to protect your risk and reduce market volatility. 

Harvey may not have dealt devastating blow to Texas ranchers

A recent report indicates that cow herd expansion will continue, but there should be no need for additional beef packing capacity.

BPI has set up a $10 million fund for former employees.

Following two days of falling cattle futures prices, Joe Vaclavik, president of Standard Grain, is calling the market moves a knee-jerk reaction to the latest Cattle on Feed report from the USDA.

Feedyard profit margins rebounded slightly after last week’s $2 rally in the cash fed cattle market.

Nebraska’s success luring Costco’s chicken processing plant to Fremont suggests they may be a fit for Tyson.

Where can a cattle producer or livestock grazer find the best deal on grazing? And where is land in the highest demand for grazing?

Study: Montana's average temperature continues to increase

All sectors of the animal food production industry and partners in human medicine and public health will come together around one of the most important topics in animal and human health today.

Disagree with Uma Valeti, CEO of Memphis Meats, a tech startup making meat from self-reproducing animal cells, if you want. Just don’t dismiss his efforts to bring “real meat—without the animal—to the table.”