The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

Most importantly, one must remember that acreage is just the beginning. With new crop corn prices

There has been and will continue to be considerable discussions regarding beef cattle herd expansion throughout 2023. This discussion will continue in 2024, but what is being discussed next year will be highly dependent on the current year’s weather, feed prices, and expansion in the second half of 2023.

Researchers from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and Mississippi State University teamed up to investigate the interaction of national slaughter and price spread—the difference between the value of live cattle price and wholesale boxed beef—that ensued following temporary closures of beef processing facilities in recent years.

This could suggest Saturday slaughter is more than a catch-up day of processing but could also be a strategy to increase slaughter when the price spread

The Hopcott family will carry B.C.’s flag into the national Outstanding Young Farmers competition in November

Participants at yesterday’s Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) Livestock Summit shared their concerns about the future the industry. Cattle, bison, and sheep producers expressed common concerns from accessing capital, business risk management programs to getting financial credit for maintaining pastures that serve as carbon sinks for the environment. After a day of discussions, a

Deep snow and blizzards are challenging ranchers and their livestock. Inclement weather can cause newborn calves and other livestock to become smothered, trampled and die. These death losses can create an emotional and financial burden for livestock producers.

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture has awarded a grant to a team in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences to fund research aimed at reducing enteric, or intestinal, methane emissions from cows and sheep, using plant and fungal sources.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s history in beef production systems is marked with over 100 years of excellence within the department of animal science, and the journey to enhance and continue to build resilient beef systems in the state is far from over.