Lightweight calves and stockers were more than 50% higher in late February than one year ago, with heavy feeder prices up over 40% year over year. Fed cattle prices are up about 24% year over year.

Producers are meeting beef demand with larger cattle. However, heavier animals are presenting new challenges in transport and ...

Pastures are turning green, which means it’s time to work cows and calves. Achieving the best results with vaccines requires using the correct syringes and needles, good management practices and ...

By Theodore Ross The high cost of beef is probably not breaking news for most readers of this newsletter. We see it in the ...

While U.S. inflation has cooled from its pandemic-era peak, prices at grocery store meat counters are skyrocketing with no ...

For producers or groups of producers wanting to sell directly into wholesale beef channels, three big issues have created challenges to the marketplace: scale, balancing the carcass and logistics. “If ...

CACTUS, TEXAS — JBS USA broke ground on a $150 million expansion project on Feb. 27 that will add a new, state-of-the-art fabrication floor and an expanded ground beef room at its Cactus, Texas, beef ...

While U.S. cattle herd size contracts, feedlot sectors in South America, Africa, and Australia expand, reshaping where the ...

In August of 2021, a group of farmers, mainly comprised of members from the Washington County Cattlemen’s Association in ...

Florida ranching lasts longer than most residents imagine. Beef production sits at the center of the state’s agricultural heritage for more than 400 years, anchored in a working landscape that often ...

HOMINY, OKLA.— Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook a nearly 700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly ...

Faced with rising processing costs and shrinking profits in its beef business, Tyson (TSN) is closing its Lexington, Nebraska beef processing plants in an effort designed to “right size its beef ...