Health/Nutrition
Managing bulls between breeding seasons
Breeding season might be over for some, but bulls still need some attention.
Aug 15, 2025 · By K-State Research and Extension
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Environment
Idaho senator to unveil amendment protecting public lands
An Idaho Republican state senator from Nampa said he will introduce a proposed amendment…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Clark Corbin, Idaho Capital Sun
Environment
Yellowstone-area wolves observed moving pups to follow elk
Scientific research has long assumed gray wolves are non-migratory during springtime, staying anchored to…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile
Environment
USFWS releases Mexican gray wolf in NM
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released a female Mexican gray wolf named…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Rollins visits Iowa State Fair, exhibits in charity steer show
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 9…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Jennifer Carrico, DTN senior livestock editor
Environment
CDFW releases quarterly wolf update
The California Department of Fish and Game (CDFW) released its quarterly report detailing wolf…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CPW will remove Copper Creek Pack wolf
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is working to kill at least one additional wolf…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
News
MT water quality bills focus of legal action against the EPA
A trio of bills Montana lawmakers passed earlier this year to loosen water quality…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press
Livestock
Alberta Beef Producers withdraw from CCA
The Alberta Beef Producers Board of Directors will withdraw its membership from the Canadian…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Markets
Traders eye technical signs, futures plummet
The cattle market turned lower this week, with futures contracts retreating from recent highs…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Health/Nutrition
Angus Association recognizes AHIR program
Members of the American Angus Association have developed the largest single beef breed database…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Bill aims to give CA ranchers a new carcass disposal option
California ranchers may soon have a new tool to manage livestock carcass disposal under…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Health/Nutrition
RAAA announces collaboration with Breedr
The Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) has partnered with Breedr, a livestock management…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Court vacates lesser prairie chicken ESA rule
A federal judge vacated the Biden-era rule that listed the lesser prairie chicken as…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
Study warns of groundwater loss in eastern WA aquifers
Groundwater levels in eastern Washington’s Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System are falling at rates…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Beef
USDA seeks members for beef board
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is seeking nominees for the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Greens intervene in national monument suit
A coalition of environmental groups intervened in a lawsuit in defense of the Chuckwalla…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Logan’s Comments: Alberta says goodbye!
In a stunning recent announcement by Alberta Beef Producers, which represents over 18,000 producers,…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Logan Ipsen
Beef
States back ranchers in labeling suit
A bipartisan alliance of 11 attorneys general are supporting ranchers in a lawsuit over…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Dittmer’s Take: Busy world
Re-starting trade with China is not only critical to our exports to China, but…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Steve Dittmer, WLJ columnist
Community
The Viewpoint with Cole Elshere
While PRCA bronc rider Cole Elshere has earned accolades in the arena, it’s the…
Aug 15, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Livestock
Nebraska votes to increase brand fees
At its June meeting, the Nebraska Brand Committee voted to increase brand inspection and…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
News
US, China extend tariff truce
The U.S. and China have come to an agreement to extend a truce on…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
Kotek vetoes cattle preg check bill
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) on Aug. 7 vetoed Senate Bill 976, which would…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Sporting groups appeal gray wolf ruling
A coalition of outdoor sporting groups filed an immediate appeal to a federal judge’s…
Aug 15, 2025 · By WLJ
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Thursday, Aug. 14
Livestock contracts fell sharply today despite solid fundamentals, as traders reacted to rumors that…
Aug 14, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
Weekly Drought Report: Aug. 7-13
Heavy precipitation improved drought conditions in northern and western Montana and parts of northern…
Aug 14, 2025 · By UNL Drought Monitor
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Wednesday, Aug. 13
Live cattle futures paused for consolidation today after early-week gains, as trader skepticism kept…
Aug 13, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Tuesday, Aug. 12
Cattle futures dramatically resumed their uptrend, rallying sharply on surging boxed beef prices.
Aug 12, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Monday, Aug. 11
The cattle market managed a modest turnaround from Friday’s tumultuous close.
Aug 11, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Friday, Aug. 8
There’s only one word to describe the cattle markets today: red—and unfortunately, it’s not…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Beef
Low herd inventory ripples through beef market
Constrained cattle supplies and strong beef demand continue to fuel record prices at all…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Environment
EPA’s endangerment repeal could undermine ethanol, RFS policy
Agricultural and biofuel groups were quiet after Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Chris Clayton, DTN ag policy editor
Community
Ag education program reaches over 1M CA students
Educating today’s students about the importance of California agriculture is critically important to protecting…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Farmer sentiment weakens, but policy ‘headed in right direction’
Farmer sentiment continues to weaken, as the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer declined…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Purdue University Extension
News
Rancher sentenced to prison time for cattle fraud scheme
A northeastern Iowa farmer is serving more than 15 years in prison and was…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Todd Neeley, DTN environmental editor
Markets
Cattle futures surge as market factors align
Live cattle and feeder cattle futures skyrocketed higher over the week as improving market…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
Study: OR ranchers bear costs from wolves’ return
A new Oregon State University Extension study reveals how the growing presence of gray…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Environment
Court upholds Colorado’s CAFO general permit
In early July, a Colorado district court affirmed a decision to uphold the use…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
Western gray wolves win ESA reconsideration
A federal court in Montana ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
USDA invests $106M in forestlands
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is investing $106 million in the Forest Legacy Program…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Where to invest pre-tax earnings in a record-high calf market
The record-high calf prices experienced in 2024 and 2025 have left many cow-calf producers…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Brock Ortner, Nebraska Extension educator
Environment
Nesvik confirmed as USFWS director
Brian Nesvik on Aug. 1 was confirmed as the director of the U.S. Fish…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
China’s lockout weighed on beef exports
Beef export volume in June was the lowest in five years, due in part…
Aug 8, 2025 · By USMEF
Environment
Interior deprioritizes wind, solar energy projects
Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed a secretary’s order on Aug. 1…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Strategic benefits and challenges of cattle co-grazing
Multi-species grazing can improve forage use, enhance soil health and help interrupt parasite life…
Aug 8, 2025 · By K-State Research and Extension
News
Kevin’s Comments: Ringside reflections
July marked my first full month on the job as a field representative for…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Kevin Murnin
Livestock
Industry calls for screwworm fly facility
Dozens of agriculture industry groups are calling on the USDA to establish a domestic…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Guest Opinion: As supplies thin, price of recycled water could go up
As we all manage the implementation of our groundwater management sustainability plans in the…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Norm Groot, Monterey County Farm Bureau executive director
News
USDA accepting input on reorganization plan
USDA is accepting public comments for 30 days on its proposal to reorganize the…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
PRIME Act reintroduced in Congress
Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-MN-01) and Thomas Massie (R-KY-04) recently reintroduced the bipartisan Processing Revival…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Guest Opinion: How global packers gained outsized influence over cattle policies
U.S. cattle producers with an interest in strengthening the economic position of their individual…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Bill Bullard, CEO, R-CALF USA
Beef
US reaches trade deal with South Korea
President Donald Trump announced July 30 on his social media platform, Truth Social, that…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Chomps opens new MO facility
On July 23, Chomps opened a 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mexico, MO, in partnership…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Community
The Viewpoint with Ty McClary
From rodeo grounds in West Texas to Hollywood movie sets and auction rings across…
Aug 8, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Health/Nutrition
CDFA cautions against unofficial EID tags
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is warning producers about counterfeit “840”…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Livestock
ASI seeks lamb board members
The American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) is seeking nominations for four upcoming vacancies on…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
WDFW seeks wolf advisory board members
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is accepting applications for four open…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
New screwworm resource website launched
The Screwworm Coalition of Texas, made up of 13 landowner, livestock, equine and wildlife…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CPW confirms six pups in One Ear Pack
On July 29, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) confirmed the presence of at least…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CPW confirms chronic wolf depredations
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) confirmed three wolf depredations in Rio Blanco County between…
Aug 8, 2025 · By WLJ
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Thursday, Aug. 7
Cattle futures are setting new contract and record highs as boxed beef and cash…
Aug 7, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
Weekly Drought Report: July 31- Aug. 6
It was a week with a lot of change noted in areas of dryness…
Aug 7, 2025 · By UNL Drought Monitor
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Wednesday, Aug. 6
Cattle futures dipped early but rebounded to set new all-time highs, driven by strong…
Aug 6, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Tuesday, Aug. 5
Cattle futures surged, with live cattle up over $3 and feeder cattle gaining $5,…
Aug 5, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Monday, Aug. 4
The market traded up and down over the day, ultimately closing higher.
Aug 4, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Friday, Aug. 1
“The cattle complex has regained its footing following Thursday's disgruntled tailspin, which sent the…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
Federal forestry cuts fuel wildfire, resource concerns
As wildfire conditions across California are expected to increase steadily through the summer, state…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Christine Souza, Ag Alert senior editor, California Farm Bureau
News
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announce merger
Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation on July 29 announced an agreement to…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Mary Kennedy, DTN basis analyst
Beef
EU trade deal could unlock stalled ag exports
President Donald Trump’s deal with Europe could be a turning point in U.S. agricultural…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Chris Clayton, DTN ag policy editor
Markets
Traders watch Brazil as new beef tariffs announced
Futures closed higher on the week, while slaughter volumes fell to the lowest level…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Livestock
Still looking for replacement heifers
Average placements and marketings have generally been falling for roughly five years, at a…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist
Health/Nutrition
How early nutrition impacts rumen development
A calf’s digestive system is shaped by more than time. Diet, milk intake and…
Aug 1, 2025 · By K-State Research and Extension
Environment
CA’s conservation effort reaches new milestone
California has added over 1 million acres of protected land and coastal waters in…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Beef
Expected beef yield from a butcher calf
Producers who finish their own calves or consumers who purchase a finished butcher calf…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Mark Z. Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension beef cattle breeding specialist
Environment
9th Circuit remands Tribe, rancher water suit
In a complex water rights dispute with roots stretching back nearly a century, the…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
USDA announces reorganization, staff relocation
In late July, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the department would be undergoing a…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Beef
US beef exports to Australia resume again
For the first time in 20 years, U.S. beef will be shipped to Australia.
Aug 1, 2025 · By Jennifer Carrico, DTN senior livestock editor
Livestock
Stolen cattle reported in Muskogee, OK
Authorities are investigating a livestock theft in Muskogee, OK, on July 24 involving 49…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
Heat effects on alfalfa
When it gets hot, alfalfa plants grow more slowly and moisture stress becomes common,…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Jerry Volesky, Nebraska Extension educator
Beef
Believer Meats completes cultivated plant
Believer Meats has completed construction of its 200,000-square-foot cultivated meat production facility in Wilson,…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
PG&E requests dam removals in CA
In late July, PG&E filed a Surrender Application and Decommissioning Plan for the Potter…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
USDA launches producer conservation survey
The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, in partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service,…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Mexican gray wolf crosses I-40 in NM
Several conservation organizations urged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not to recapture a…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Livestock
HELP Act would support livestock haulers
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has endorsed the Hauling Exemptions for Livestock Protection (HELP)…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CPW to release wolves in Gunnison County
Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced plans to reintroduce wolves to southwestern Colorado during the…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Meat Institute releases processing guide
As policymakers debate definitions of ultra-processed foods and strategies to improve children’s nutrition, the…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
UT lawmakers request lamb imports tariff
Reps. Burgess Owens (R-UT-04) and Celeste Maloy (R-UT-02) recently penned a letter to Trade…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Australia lifts ban on Canadian beef
On July 29, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Australia is allowing Canadian beef…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
WDFW removes wolf from Togo Pack
On July 28, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind authorized the…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
AZ county opposes Mexican gray wolf plan
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors in Arizona adopted on July 22 Resolution 25-21,…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Logan’s Comments: Tighter supplies, higher pressure
The July Cattle biannual inventory report was released in late July, and to no…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Logan Ipsen
News
Trade deals secured with Japan, Indonesia
The Trump administration announced trade agreements with Japan and Indonesia, increasing market access for…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Kay’s Korner: Tariff threats dominate
The threat of enormous tariffs on goods and services imported into the U.S. from…
Aug 1, 2025 · By Steve Kay, WLJ columnist
Livestock
Speed limiter rule withdrawn
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in…
Aug 1, 2025 · By WLJ
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Thursday, July 31
“After a big rally yesterday to all-time highs, CME cattle futures have given it…
Jul 31, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
Weekly Drought Report: July 24-30
Out West, generally dry conditions prevailed over much of the region except for some…
Jul 31, 2025 · By UNL Drought Monitor
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Wednesday, July 30
Live cattle futures surged to new all-time highs, buoyed by strong cash market signals.
Jul 30, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Tuesday, July 29
Cattle futures continue to climb today, with strong gains pushing several nearby contracts to…
Jul 29, 2025 · By Charles Wallace