Washington
Bipartisan support of act offers long-overdue relief to cattle producers.
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.
The cattle industry unites to fight hunger and helps communities in the Northwest through beef donations.
Importers from Japan toured ranches, feedyards and processing facilities in Idaho and Kansas to learn more about the industry.
Nothing goes to waste on the 6,000 acres of Royal Family Farms.
A Washington state rancher has agreed to a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency regarding an unauthorized dam he built on his property.
The Justice Department says it has filed a memo in federal court with its recommended sentence for Washington rancher and cattle feeder Cody Easterday who pleaded guilty in a $244 million “ghost cattle” scheme.
The Northwest Seaport Alliance is partnering the USDA to bring the Port of Seattle a 49-acre pop-up site that will accept both dry and refrigerated agricultural products for temporary storage.
The fallout continues from a ghost-cattle scheme as Rabo AgriFinance filed suit in federal court seeking to foreclose on Easterday family assets that have been in default for months.
While Tyson’s lawyers were filing a lawsuit on Monday against one of the packer’s largest cattle suppliers, the ink was still drying on the sale of one of that supplier’s feedlots to one of Tyson’s competitors.
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.
An effort to return grizzly bears to North Cascades National Park is back in motion after officials announced public comment will be reopened.
An online startup that sells sustainable beef has expanded its service to Washington, D.C.
Rancher Nick Cobb says the blizzard that hit Washington state over the weekend meant several calves needed help, including one called “Oreo” that was covered in snow and ice.
A Washington state representative is accused of being actively involved with extremist groups advocating armed resistance against the federal government.
A feedlot in southeastern Washington has settled a fine imposed by the state after allegedly failing to manage air pollution.
A juvenile wolf has been killed in Washington after its pack was found repeatedly preying on cattle grazing federal land.
Wildlife officials in Washington have approved a kill order for wolves that have been preying on livestock. This is the second time this has happened in less than a month.
A male wolf in Washington has been killed by wildlife officials after its pack preyed on cattle three times in August.
A rancher in Washington is currently under investigation by wildlife officials after he shot at a wolf in self-defense while checking his cattle.
A GPS collared wolf that is a member of a pack in Washington known to prey on livestock has been injured after it was shot by a rancher.
The Togo wolf pack has attacked five cattle in the past 10 months, which meets the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s lethal removal policy threshold but there are no current plans to euthanize the wolves.
A wolf pack that has killed cattle in Washington has been approved to be handled with lethal action by wildlife officials.
A wolf pack in Washington that has preyed on cattle six times in the past 10 months and three times in 30 days will not be euthanized in the near future after activists groups filed a lawsuit.
After 16 separate attacks on livestock, wildlife officials in Washington have approved the lethal removal of the remaining pack members.
A wolf pack in northeastern Washington has committed three more attacks on cattle, making their total amount of livestock depredation come to 15 this year.