Beef - General
South Korea continues to be the growth pacesetter for U.S. beef exports, as July volume reached 25,104 mt, or 6% higher compared to last year.
Omaha-based Green Plains Inc, announced it has completed the sale of 50% of Green Plains Cattle Company LLC for $77 million.
Peterson asks the administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to declare an emergency suspend of the Hours of Service (HOS) regulations for live-cattle haulers.
USDA grant funds Texas Tech research project that hopes to identify the means by which development of marbling can be promoted without also increasing back fat.
“Economic and political order has become disorder,” Dan Basse, president of AgResource told attendees at the recent Feeding Quality Forum during his keynote address.
Alternative protein products may have drawn rave reviews and national headlines this year, but research says consumers still prefer real beef produced on real farms.
New research looks at the concept of progressively reducing feed intake throughout the diet-transition period in feedlots, with the goal of maintaining a constant body size.
The new frontier in nutrition research is the rumen microbe population, and new management practices have been shown to improve rumen health.
The cattle industry needs to make some bold, creative changes to ensure its viability, according to speakers at the Feeding Quality Forum held in Amarillo, Texas.
John Nalivka says Americans must look at the bigger picture and our relationship with China as we discuss this complex topic of tariffs.
Cash fed cattle continued a downward spiral driven by losses in CME Live cattle futures. Tyson announced its Kansas beef plant won’t be fully operational until January.
Cattle imports for July were lower than a year ago, but the total for the first seven months of 2019 are higher.
An Oregon judge on Friday dismissed a federal lawsuit related to the death of rancher Robert LaVoy Finicum, who was shot by Oregon State Police in January of 2016.
The lack of aggressive trade was noticed mostly in the south where cash trade could not get any higher than $1.00 last week.
Research and practical experience have shown a genetic component to the ability of individual cattle, or sire lines, to resist BRD pathogens.
This summer’s outbreak of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) appears to be losing steam, with no new states reporting positive cases in the USDA’s latest weekly situation report.
You may think you’re feeding cattle, but new research suggests the key is the rumen microbes within those cattle. Technology is providing a research breakthrough.
Cash fed cattle traded at lower prices ahead of the Labor Day weekend, while steer and heifer calves sold steady to higher at auctions.
The nearly 10,000-acre Southern Cattle Lands ranch in the Florida panhandle is for sale via sealed bids.
When loading and unloading cattle, the choice of “movement assistance device” may affect the loading outcome as well as the end product.
Proper cow culling will reduce the chance that a cow carcass is condemned at the packing plant and becomes a money drain for the entire beef industry.
If anything good comes from the Tyson fire, maybe it will be that everyone will realize the burden of our over-committed fed cattle supply.
USCA calls on the USDA and the CFTC to “convene cattle market participants to discuss concerns related to price transparency and true price discovery.”
It all boils down, so the speak, to basic science.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has cancelled a series of 14 wolf-related public meetings as a precaution for the safety of the public and staff.
New Mexico officials are trying to seize parts of a ranch owned by Jeffery Epstein after the state commissioner was not allowed to visit the property.
Brazil’s agriculture minister says Indonesia has authorized beef exports from 10 Brazilian meat packing plants.
U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Purdue has directed USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Division to launch an investigation into recent beef pricing activity.
Citing heightened concerns about environmental preservation and sustainable beef production, JBS SA is using satellite technology to monitor suppliers.
Calves weaned 45 days or longer have a health advantage over calves weaned for a month or less, or those weaned on the way to the auction.