With historically high cull cow and bull prices, there is an opportunity to add revenue to beef operations and have a change in mindset that a cull animal is a secondary product. Many packing plants ...

When plans for a gap year overseas turned sour during the pandemic in 2021, Jaz Stewart found herself driving across Australia to a cattle station kitchen. At 19 years old, her cooking experience ...

The Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame was launched in 2009 to celebrate the rich traditions of the cattle-feeding industry and recognize individuals who have devoted their careers to producing safe, quality ...

Feeder cattle futures were mostly a tick to $1 higher on the session. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was up 85 cents from the day prior at $263.00 on December 20. Beef stocks at the end of November ...

The highest weekly price for these big feeder steers was $264.74/cwt. in early July and only slightly below that in December. The 2024 average price exceeded the previous annual record in 2015 by 21.6 ...

Consider the response of the animal, is it performing as expected? Do not over-supply into the range where you may negatively affect performance or have considerable environmental excretion. Getting ...

But the scale of the farmers’ efforts to treat the sick cows stunned him. They showed videos of systems they built to hydrate hundreds of cattle at once. In 14-hour shifts, dairy workers pumped ...

In the ongoing outbreak of H5N1 bird flu among the nation’s dairy cattle, federal officials have consistently expressed confidence that they know enough about how the virus is spreading to put a ...

There were no deliveries issued against December live cattle on Tuesday. Feeder cattle futures rallied on Tuesday with contracts up $1.90 to $2.15. The CME Feeder Cattle Index was back up 81 cents ...

Gavin Newsom of California declared on Wednesday that the outbreak of infections among the state’s dairy cattle constituted an emergency. The announcement followed news earlier in the day that ...