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With Select supplies shrinking and consumer demand locked on higher-quality beef, the traditional Choice-Select spread no longer tells the real market story.
As the federal government settles with Agri Stats over data-sharing, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary Brooke Rollins launch a high-stakes investigation into beef market concentration and potential price-fixing.
The beef industry is looking toward “Beef Month” to sustain the strongest market rally in history.
By transforming the dairy barn into a high-precision factory floor, beef-on-dairy provides the consistent, year-round supply of high-quality cattle the beef industry has chased for decades.
Despite a historic 15% Prime grade achievement, heavier carcass weights and excess backfat are creating new hurdles for the Certified Angus Beef brand.
While feedlots are incentivized to push for record weights, ranchers are feeling the strain of larger, high-maintenance cows. Experts say matching your herd to your environment is the only way to win.
With 24-hour care and a 100-child capacity, the new Full Circle Childcare Center aims to solve a critical constraint for families in Kansas’ premier beef processing region.
Following the three-week strike at the JBS Greeley, Colo., plant, union workers have ratified a two-year bargaining agreement.
The three-week strike at the JBS Greeley, Colo., plant is set to end Monday as union workers remain united to secure a fair contract.
Senators Grassley and Smith introduce bipartisan legislation to study the economic impact of concentration in the livestock industry.
While mature cow weights have climbed for 60 years, Oklahoma State analysis explains the link between cow size and carcass weight is more modest than the industry assumes.
Thousands of union workers at the JBS Greeley, Colo., plant went on strike Monday calling for higher wages, safer working conditions and respect on the job.
In today’s beef industry, every ounce of meat matters. On the fabrication floor at Cargill’s Fort Morgan facility, getting one more ounce of meat off the bone can equate to roughly 600,000 quarter-pound servings.
Democrats plans to introduce a bill that would split meat processing operations and scrutinize foreign ownership.
With 100% of processing plants reporting foreign material challenges, the beef industry is turning to live-animal detection to prevent $476 million annually in potential losses.
Project includes state-of-the-art fabrication floor and an expanded ground beef room.
Beef has built a rapidly widening price gap over competing meats in the grocery store. This trend has become increasingly pronounced since the early 2000s, but as beef supplies have tightened over the past three years, the pace of the widening price disparity has accelerated.
2026 will be a year of beef demand shifting not disappearing.
CattleFax’s Patrick Linnell predicts a slow, cautious rebuild as aging producers, labor shortages and volatility reshape expansion decisions.
In 2026, imports decide how painful the grind gets, exports decide whether the carcass pencils, and policy decides how fast everything can change.
Closure will affect 221 employees, with layoffs starting April 11 and the grind facility closing around May 31.
As carcass weights hit new highs, experts warn that efficiency gains bring unintended welfare risks in transport, feedlots and packing plants — and call for targeted investments, better infrastructure and data‑driven management of every animal.
2026 is not the year the cattle cycle “fixes itself.” It is the year the industry learns how to ration a smaller supply base without blowing itself up.
Protein is back on top. Ground beef might be the quiet winner, with imports doing the heavy lifting.
National Agricultural Law Center summarizes key issues from 2025.