BEEF
Cattle markets continued under pressure in the first full week of trading following the Labor Day holiday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When loading and unloading cattle, the choice of “movement assistance device” may affect the loading outcome as well as the end product.
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.
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.
The most recent FDA figures show substantial drops in medically important antibiotics sales and distribution in all U.S. food animal production. Cattle feeders say the facts leave nothing to hide.
Fair Oaks Farms, a progressive dairy, pork and crop farm in northwest Indiana, was recently the subject of some less than savory media attention.
Ranchers in western Texas want local culinary students to know more than how to cook a good steak.
Workable free trade relationships are critical to U.S. cattle producers.
In letter, EU demands improved checks on meat safety.
China’s market halted in 2003 when the U.S. investigated a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from an imported dairy cow. Up to that point, the U.S. was China’s largest supplier of beef.
Wesley and Joesley Batista have combined debt of $790 million.
Beef trade protocols with China have been finalized by USDA.
The U.S. has finalized details under a plan to send U.S. beef to China for the first time since 2003.
Interest driven by export potential, Ontilcor director says.
Cattle prices have continued to surprise the markets, but have prices seen their peak?