Beef - General
Four months after announcing a trade agreement lifting longstanding restrictions on U.S. beef exported to Japan, the U.S. has agreed to increase its low-tariff quota for Japanese beef shipped to America.
Animal welfare, sustainability and economics are affected when beef cattle suffer from bovine respiratory disease, or BRD.
After a rancher told the Otero County, Colo., sheriff his 13-year-old son was shot at while checking cattle, authorities initiated an investigation that has uncovered dozens of illegal marijuana cultivation plots.
We’ve all seen the headlines over the years, and some very recent, about professional dissatisfaction and burnout among veterinarians.
Simply participating in verified programs such as NHTC (Non-Hormone Treated Cattle), Verified Natural, GAP and a multitude of others, isn’t a guarantee of success or profit.
Cattle markets continued under pressure in the first full week of trading following the Labor Day holiday.
A fire Friday afternoon at Cargill’s Doge City, Kan., facility was quickly extinguished and damage to the plant was minimal and no impact on operations is expected.
The rapid growth in Chinese beef imports has dramatically altered global beef flows with several countries now exporting a significant share of total exports to China.
The $1 threshold seemed to be a sticking point for cattle feeders last week, and many held firm on Friday which could prove to give cash prices a needed boost.
Fall-calving herds will be breeding replacement heifers in late November. Now is the time to make certain that those heifers are ready for the upcoming breeding season.
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.