California
A century of female stewardship meets the digital age as virtual fencing replaces the physical grind of the past in Potter Valley.
Bipartisan support of act offers long-overdue relief to cattle producers.
Swift Beef Co. plans to close its case-ready facility in Riverside, Calif., effective Feb. 2.
While the reintroduction of wolves has led to significant challenges for local ranchers, some say they are willing to deal with the animals if they will return to their natural habitat.
In addition to increasing carcass counts, wolves decrease reproduction rates, weaning weights, calf health and human well-being — costs often uncompensated or uncounted.
How this California operation is turning genetics and data into profits by raising higher performing beef-on-dairy calves with its own Angus bulls.
While many ranchers turn away at the word sustainability, California rancher Mike Williams’ involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef changed his perspective.
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is imposing new $1.50 per acre assessment on rural landowners, farmers and ranchers.
Halter partners with Foundation for America’s Public Lands and Bureau of Land Management to expand joint access to ranchers.
Rangeland rancher John Austel was glad to have a wildfire grazing plan in place, but he didn’t want to have to put it to the test.
Recent research predicts modest wolf impacts can cut ranch income 28%.
Due to limited and varied rainfall, this southern California ranch uses targeted grazing to help restore habitat, increase forage production and mitigate wildfire.
The on-again, off-again reports regarding ICE raids is sowing confusion for those who rely on immigrant labor and causing labor shortages because employees aren’t showing up for work.
With innovation and diversification, the Fenders have found their niche in the beef industry.
In light of escalating gray wolf activity, sheriff departments from seven California counties are uniting to oppose environmental polices they believe threaten ranchers and farmers.
Motion-activated field cameras, GPS collars, wolf scat analysis and cattle tail hair samples are helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed new light on how an expanding and protected gray wolf population is affecting cattle operations, leading to millions of dollars in losses.
Cattleman Mike Williams uses a grazing management plan, virtual fencing technology and involvement with local and state cattle associations to meet the challenges of ranching in southern California.
Fifteen years into growing a farm and a family together, everything changed for Ron and Sherri Prins and their four young kids. A diagnosis made the couple lean on their faith and on one another more than ever before.
Following her passion for marketing and creating a new revenue stream through consumer beef sales allowed third generation rancher, Brooke Helsel, to continue ranching with her mom in California’s Central Valley.
A California jury deliberated for six days before returning guilty verdicts of conspiracy and trespassing for DxE co-founder Wayne Hsiung. The jury deadlocked on a second conspiracy charge.
How fair officials and the local sheriff, both unencumbered by intelligence, tarnished your image as a livestock producer and created a public relations disaster.
The sudden switch from drought to too much precipitation in parts of California now begs the question: Is the weather changing, and will California start to dig out from three consecutive years of drought?
Federal regulators have ordered Union Pacific railroad to honor specific service commitments to Foster Poultry Farms in Livingston, California.
Beretta Family Dairy of Santa Rosa has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 California Leopold Conservation Award®.
The Los Angeles, Calif., City Council voted unanimously to adopt its resolution in support of the Plant Based Treaty initiative, discouraging expansion of animal agriculture and promoting plant-based diets.
More than 16% of new cars sold in California in 2022 were zero-emissions vehicles, the state said, up from 12.41% in 2021 and 7.78% in 2020.
California passes a new law to encourage hunters to be more aggressive in reducing the state’s feral pig population.