beef industry

Highly contagious avian influenza has infected or killed wild and domestic birds in 29 states. Senate Ag Committee members heard from the beef industry regarding the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.

While much of the country suffers from extreme drought this summer, farmers in southeast Arkansas are still trying to recover from freakish summer rains that devastated many crops.

The Cattlemen’s Beef Board will celebrate the program’s 35th anniversary during the upcoming Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville, August 10-12.

Pandemic disruptions to the beef industry will likely linger into 2021, but the result may not be all bad, according to Don Close, senior animal protein analyst at Rabo AgriFinance.

Bayer was forced last week to delay part of a proposed settlement of allegations that its widely used weed killer Roundup caused cancer.

Mexican family size is shrinking fast. Dairy cow numbers are at the highest inventory. Federal funds will stimulate $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending.

Beef industry priorities providing direction to checkoff contractors. In the beef industry, cow-calf, feedlots, and packers, all made money in 2017.

USDA announced last week it will launch a program worth 100-million dollars to help fund infrastructure projects to increase the availability of higher blends of ethanol. American-made, clean energy sources support the environment, reduce U...