Beef
Vermont Wagyu first USDA-certified label
Vermont Wagyu became the first U.S. farm to ship Certified Authentic Wagyu beef, according…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
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Markets
Cattle market mixed as futures steady, beef weakens
Trade for the week was choppy; futures were driven by headlines and stock market…
Sep 19, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
News
Feds announce wildfire response system overhaul
The USDA and the Department of the Interior have unveiled a sweeping plan to…
Sep 19, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Beef
AFN acquires Open Range Beef processor
American Farmers Network (AFN) announced the acquisition of Open Range Beef of Gordon, NE,…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
News
USDA forecasts a rise in 2025 net income
USDA’s latest forecast projects a sharp rebound in farm profitability for 2025, though much…
Sep 19, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Beef
AFG holds open house at newest plant in MO
On Sept. 13, American Foods Group’s (AFG) America’s Heartland Packing welcomed the community to…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
USFS ordered to revisit Yellowstone-area grazing plan
A federal court on Sept. 17 ruled that the U.S. Forest Service violated the…
Sep 19, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Beef
USDA expands farm-to-school grants
The USDA is opening applications for fiscal year 2026 Patrick Leahy Farm to School…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Logan’s Comments: Time to clean up, not panic
In mid-September, the CME board wasn’t very friendly and had a quick minor correction…
Sep 19, 2025 · By Logan Ipsen
Environment
La Niña is likely to develop this winter
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center now estimates a 71% chance…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Livestock
CA agriculture value surpasses $60B
California’s farm production value reached $61.2 billion in 2024, up 3.6% from 2023 and…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Resource Science: Environmental impact statements and population growth
If EIS can consider climate change, which is a worldwide issue, what about human…
Sep 19, 2025 · By Dr. Matthew Cronin, WLJ columnist
Environment
McDonald’s launches $200M regenerative initiative
McDonald’s USA has announced its largest investment in regenerative agriculture through the Grassland Resilience…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Guest Opinion: When appetites shrink, beef can help every bite count
Nearly 15% of consumers surveyed in late 2024 reported using GLP-1 medications to treat…
Sep 19, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Beef
Mexico invests MX$ 700M into meat production
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced in early September that the government would invest…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CA farmland-to-solar bill pulled
California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) pulled Assembly Bill 1156, which would have made it…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Greens sue EPA for pulling wastewater rule
A coalition of 10 environmental groups filed a suit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
WY ‘checkerboard’ horse gathers delayed to 2026
The Bureau of Land Management’s plan to gather more than 3,000 feral horses from…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
News
MT raises concern with American Prairie bison
The Montana governor and state lawmakers penned a letter to Department of the Interior…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CO group submits second wolf ballot measure
Colorado Advocates for Smart Wolf Policy will again circulate petitions for a statewide initiative…
Sep 19, 2025 · By WLJ
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Thursday, Sept. 18
Cattle futures staged a modest rebound today, trading between their 10- and 40-day moving…
Sep 18, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
Weekly Drought Report: Sept. 11-17
Across the Southwest, robust monsoonal moisture warranted a small reduction in coverage of exceptional…
Sep 18, 2025 · By UNL Drought Monitor
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Wednesday, Sept. 17
Cattle futures slipped in choppy trade as fading fundamentals, shrinking bull interest, and speculation…
Sep 17, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Tuesday, Sept. 16
Cattle futures eased today, giving back a modest slice of Monday’s big rally as…
Sep 16, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Monday, Sept. 15
“It was a grandiose day for the cattle complex, as the futures complex switched…
Sep 15, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Friday, Sept. 12
“It's been a lethargic, slow trading day for the livestock complex as the markets…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Beef
Trade deal with Japan set to boost US ag sales
President Donald Trump on Sept. 4 signed an order to implement a trade agreement…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Chris Clayton, DTN ag policy editor
Beef
Latin American buyers study US processing, innovations
The U.S. Meat Export Federation led a team of Latin American importers, distributors and…
Sep 12, 2025 · By USMEF
Health/Nutrition
Extending the grazing season provides numerous benefits
As the weather cools down, ranchers have several options to consider for extending their…
Sep 12, 2025 · By NDSU Extension
Environment
California predator work group formed
To address a surge of livestock kills, attacks and other conflicts caused by the…
Sep 12, 2025 · By California Farm Bureau Federation
Health/Nutrition
The 7% rule of body condition scores
There is a strong relationship between weight and BCS. For each unit change in…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Mark Z. Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension beef cattle breeding specialist
Beef
What’s the difference between yield and quality grade?
After a 24-48-hour period in the cooler after harvest, cattle will go through the…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Kelly Vierck, University of Tennessee animal science assistant professor
Beef
Cattlemen’s Beef Board approves $38M budget
The Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB) will invest approximately $38.1 million into programs of beef…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Cattle and beef market margins
Cattle and beef markets started a strong run up about three years ago in…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist
Environment
American Prairie announces new acquisitions, access in Breaks
American Prairie announced it has acquired the Anchor Ranch, its second-largest land purchase to…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan
Environment
Feds slate purge of ‘checkerboard’ horses despite court ruling
Federal land managers have had a rough time implementing contentious plans to eliminate roughly…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile
Environment
Water shutoffs happening earlier than usual for some Yakima Basin irrigators
Water shutoffs are happening earlier than usual for some irrigators in the Yakima River…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Questen Inghram, Yakima Herald-Republic
Beef
July was another slow month for beef exports
Market access obstacles continued to weigh heavily on exports of U.S. beef, with the…
Sep 12, 2025 · By USMEF
News
Goldcrest Farm Trust closes $300M fund
Goldcrest Farm Trust, a private real estate investment trust, announced the closing of its…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Beyond Meat payment delays raise concerns
Beyond Meat is taking longer to pay its bills as the company struggles with…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
BOR launches EIS for CA water transfers
The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) has published a Federal Register notice of intent to…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Markets
Cattle futures slide as market corrects
Cattle futures stumbled into a sharp correction this past week, pressured by bearish sentiment…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
Greens plan to sue over grazing in Tonto National Forest
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Maricopa Bird Alliance filed on Aug. 4…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Environment
Reclamation continues Sites Reservoir negotiations
The Bureau of Reclamation announced continued public negotiations with the Sites Project Authority on…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
EIA case confirmed in Montana
On Aug. 28, the Montana Department of Livestock confirmed a positive case of Equine…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
FDA approves hydrogen peroxide for processing
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has amended food additive regulations to permit hydrogen…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
News
MAHA strategy targets childhood disease
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Beef
Brazil approves Marfrig-BRF merger
Brazil’s antitrust authority, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense, has approved a merger between…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CPW concludes wolf removal attempt
On Aug. 16, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and USDA’s Wildlife Services attempted to…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
BLM plans to rescind Public Lands Rule
The Department of Interior is proposing to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s 2024…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
News
Logan’s Comments: Meat industry wins
In early September, the Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Health and Human…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Logan Ipsen
News
Dittmer’s Take: The pace keeps up
It’s far from clear what will happen among congressional leaders and the White House.
Sep 12, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
News
Guest Opinion: The fight over produced water rights
Regrettably, the court got it wrong, once again ruling that groundwater brought up through…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Dan Gattis, TSCRA second vice president
News
House overturns resource management plans
The House of Representatives in early September voted to roll back three Biden-era resource…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Peppered chub draft recovery plan released
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its draft recovery plan for the endangered…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Community
The Viewpoint with Dan Genho
For Dan Genho, Agri Beef director of quality and continuous development, the key to…
Sep 12, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
DOI order strengthens LWCF implementation
Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum announced a secretary’s order to guide…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Lab meat companies sue over TX law
Two California-based cultivated meat companies are filing suit over Texas’ recent law banning lab-grown…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Rollins slams CA dam removal plan
USDA Secretary Brook Rollins condemned the Pacific Gas and Electric Company for planning to…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Greens file prairie chicken appeal
The Center for Biological Diversity and Texas Campaign for the Environment on Sept. 8…
Sep 12, 2025 · By WLJ
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Thursday, Sept. 11
Live and feeder cattle futures opened lower before rebounding as bulls worked to stabilize…
Sep 11, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
Weekly Drought Report: Sept. 4-10
Locally heavy precipitation led to improvements across portions of southeastern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and…
Sep 11, 2025 · By UNL Drought Monitor
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Wednesday, Sept. 10
Cattle futures posted modest corrective gains today, clawing back some of yesterday’s steep losses.
Sep 10, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Tuesday, Sept. 9
Cattle markets collapsed Tuesday, with feeder cattle closing limit down and live cattle losing…
Sep 9, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Monday, Sept. 8
The cattle markets opened the week on a steady note.
Sep 8, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Friday, Sept. 5
The cattle market eased into the weekend on a lower note.
Sep 5, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
BOR to hold meeting on Central Valley Project
On Sept. 9, from 1-3 p.m. PDT, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) will host…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
What every producer should know about judicious antibiotic use
Judicious use of antibiotics is tremendously important for the future of beef and dairy…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Boehringer Ingelheim
News
USDA issues alert for Trader Joe’s pizza
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert for imported…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
NRCS announces 10-meter RAP datasets
The USDA Agricultural Research Service has expanded the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) with a…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Farmer sentiment weakens as confidence in future wanes
Farmer sentiment dipped for the third straight month in August, with the Purdue University/CME…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Purdue University Extension
Environment
E15 gas coming to California for first time
The California Senate on Sept. 3 voted unanimously on a bill to sell E15…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Todd Neeley, DTN environmental editor
Beef
USDA approves new beef grading tools
The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service announced approval of three new vision grading instruments for…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
News
OK National Stockyards for sale again
A planned sale of the historic Oklahoma National Stockyards has collapsed, the management announced…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
Annual forage insurance as a risk management tool
Planting annual forages can be a smart way to supplement feed for livestock whether…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Shannon Sand, Nebraska Extension
Livestock
Developing a large animal preparedness plan
When a disaster is on the horizon, timely evacuation can become that much more…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Texas A&M AgriLife
Health/Nutrition
USDA launches rural veterinary action plan
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a Rural Veterinary Action Plan to address the…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
Mexico reports 53% increase in NWS cases
Mexico has recorded 5,086 cases of New World screwworm (NWS) infections in animals as…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Ag reality tv farm defaults on $1.3M loan ahead of sentencing
Ag reality television star Steve A. McBee’s Gallatin, MO, farm has defaulted on a…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Todd Neeley, DTN environmental editor
News
USDA moves to end Farm Labor Survey
The Trump administration recently moved to disrupt how wages are set for temporary guest…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Chris Clayton, DTN ag policy editor
News
Idaho prepares to sell state-owned endowment land
Nobody from the state gave fifth-generation Idaho rancher Nick Beard a heads up that…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Clark Corbin, Idaho Capital Sun
News
Fisher population does not warrant ESA protection
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has determined the Northern California-Southern Oregon distinct…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Invasive grasses threaten mule deer habitat
If the spread of cheatgrass and other annual invasive grasses is left unchecked, mule…
Sep 5, 2025 · By UW Extension
News
Bill would provide framework for processors
Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN-01) introduced the American Protein Processing Modernization Act to implement a…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
Minimizing shrink to maximize profit
Every pound counts at the sale barn—and sometimes, the weight loss happens long before…
Sep 5, 2025 · By K-State Research and Extension
Environment
PRF as a risk management tool
Pasture and forage are the foundation of many Nebraska livestock operations, but they’re also…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Shannon Sand, Nebraska Extension
News
UC ANR receives $15.1M to accelerate ag tech innovation
UC ANR Innovate—the innovation program of University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources—has been…
Sep 5, 2025 · By UC ANR
News
DOJ to identify laws with out-of-state impacts
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and National Economic Council announced an initiative to identify…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Community
Farmers, ranchers encouraged to manage stress
Piled-up stress during harvest season can lead farmers and ranchers to develop physical or…
Sep 5, 2025 · By NDSU Extension
Environment
States fast-track wind, solar to beat Trump’s deadline
Across the country, state leaders are racing to fast-track wind and solar projects before…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Alex Brown, Stateline
Environment
NM governor issues emergency order after flooding
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has authorized $1.5 million in emergency spending to…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico
News
Comments sought for NM snail recovery plan
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened a public comment period for input on…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
EU eliminates meat tariff for US bison
A deal stuck between the U.S. and European Union (EU) includes preferential access for…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Settlement reached in TX, NM water dispute
A lawsuit filed in 2013 between Texas and New Mexico over Rio Grande water…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
Environment
WA to conserve 77,000 acres of older forests on state lands
Eight months after Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove entered office and paused logging sales…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Emily Fitzgerald, Washington State Standard
Environment
EPA ends GHG reduction grants
The District of Columbia Circuit appeals court recently ruled in favor of the Environmental…
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Logan’s Comments: We agree!
In an interesting trade situation that is unfolding daily, R-CALF USA and NCBA have…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Logan Ipsen
News
USDA extends comment period on reorganization
USDA will be extending the comment period on its proposed reorganization plan.
Sep 5, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Guest Opinion: Unity in the supply chain
It takes teamwork and a shared purpose to keep things running smoothly, and the…
Sep 5, 2025 · By Zippy Duvall, American Farm Bureau Federation president