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United We Stand with Theodora Johnson
Right now, my neighbors and I are facing a narrative, propagated by mainstream media…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Theodora Johnson, Siskiyou County, CA
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Resource Science: Forest fires, CO2 in harvested and regenerated trees
Forest fires produce large amounts of CO2, and it is common sense that reducing…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Dr. Matthew Cronin, WLJ columnist
Community
The Viewpoint with Jessica Vigil
Jessica Vigil, manager of Dixie Valley Ranch outside of McArthur, CA, has witnessed firsthand…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Livestock
Guest Opinion: We need real wolf management, not just compensation
In 2011, when OR-7 made headlines as the first documented wolf in California in…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Rick Roberti, CCA president
News
Tips for documenting wildfire-related agricultural losses
Landowners with livestock or agricultural infrastructure losses from recent wildfires across Texas are advised…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
News
USDA names new leaders, updates avian flu response
USDA recently highlighted new leadership in the Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) roles.
Mar 28, 2025 · By Chris Clayton, DTN ag policy editor
News
Beef advocacy strengthened with new Trailblazers
After a competitive application process, 10 new Trailblazers have been selected for the program’s…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Beef Checkoff
Livestock
A cattle industry update from northern Mexico
An invitation to speak at the annual meeting of the Unión Ganadera Regional De…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist
News
Packer ownership, taxes focus of LMA’s DC Fly-In
An outdated prohibition almost cost Heidi Nicholas her marriage. On paper, anyway.
Mar 28, 2025 · By LMA
Health/Nutrition
Outlook for the 2025 grazing and haying season
This winter has been similar to last winter in terms of snow and potential…
Mar 28, 2025 · By NDSU Extension
News
CA Farm Bureau delegation calls for support
California farmers and ranchers met at the state Capitol in Sacramento recently to draw…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Christine Souza, Ag Alert senior editor, California Farm Bureau
Beef
JBS reports rise in quarterly profit
JBS SA reported a significant increase in net profit for the fourth quarter of…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Reward for OR wolf killing info reaches $30K
The reward for information on the illegal killing of a federally protected gray wolf…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
ASI leads support for Wildlife Services
The American Sheep Industry Association’s (ASI) annual letter supporting USDA’s Wildlife Services has gained…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Community
NDSA distributes $900K in wildfire funds
The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association and North Dakota Stockmen’s Foundation distributed $939,702 to cattle…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Chomps beef sticks recalled for metal
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that Idaho Smokehouse Partners LLC is recalling…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Ribbon cut at Sustainable Beef plant
A ribbon cutting was held on March 24 for the soon-to-open Sustainable Beef plant…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Livestock
Arrests made in TX, OK cattle thefts
An investigation by Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger John Vance led…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Greens seek to intervene in ESA 4(d) suit
Defenders of Wildlife has filed a motion to intervene in a suit challenging the…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
News
Bill introduced to lower egg prices
A bipartisan bill called the Lowering Egg Prices Act intends to lower egg prices…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Mississippi third state to outlaw lab meat
Mississippi has joined Florida and Alabama in banning lab-grown meat in the state.
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Hearing held on ESA overhaul, gray wolf delisting
The House Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries held a legislative hearing regarding the…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
News
EU delays retaliatory tariffs
The European Union (EU) has delayed its retaliatory tariffs until mid-April.
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
USDA kills CO wolf depredating in WY
USDA Wildlife Services lethally removed a gray wolf from Colorado in Wyoming in mid-March…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Grizzly listing comments deadline extended
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is extending the comment period on its proposed…
Mar 28, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Analyzing how nutrients in beef are impacted by what cattle eat
Instead of answering, “Where’s the beef?” Michigan State University scientists are gaining a deeper…
Mar 28, 2025 · By MSU Extension
Environment
Bayer loses in $2.065B Roundup verdict
A Cobb County, GA, jury awarded plaintiff John Barnes $2.065 billion in compensation and…
Mar 28, 2025 · By Todd Neeley, DTN environmental editor
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Thursday, March 27
The cattle complex closed higher after volatility earlier in the day and continues to…
Mar 27, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Wednesday, March 26
The cattle complex closed mostly higher, buoyed by higher Choice cutout prices and less…
Mar 26, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Tuesday, March 25
Cattle futures closed mixed after opening lower as traders are cautious that the market…
Mar 25, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Monday, March 24
While the market opened higher thanks to Friday’s bullish Cattle on Feed report, it…
Mar 24, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Friday, March 21
USDA released its latest Cattle on Feed report today, which showed a steep decline…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
Protecting farms and ranches from wildfires
Wildfires affect America’s farm and ranches, damaging and destroying homes, barns, agriculture production facilities,…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Texas A&M AgriLife
Environment
Lawmakers fund WY’s wildfire recovery work via grants and loans
After a historic wildfire season, Wyoming lawmakers spent much of the 2025 general session…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Maggie Mullen, WyoFile
Health/Nutrition
Managing weight gain in cattle
It is common knowledge that people’s metabolism slows as they age.
Mar 21, 2025 · By K-State Research and Extension
Markets
Futures continue their climb higher
The market saw substantial gains over the week, with numbers on the board soaring…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
News
Report shows ag adds $9.5T to economy
A new report highlights the substantial economic impact the agriculture and food sector has…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
Agencies request advance funding for pending Tribal water settlements
Five New Mexico Tribal and Pueblo water rights settlements still need federal approval, but…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Danielle Prokop, Source New Mexico
Environment
EPA revisiting rules to increase prescribed burning
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to boost the use of prescribed burns…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Health/Nutrition
Pre-breeding exams for replacement heifer selection
For cow-calf producers, it is ideal to have one healthy calf on the ground…
Mar 21, 2025 · By University of Missouri Extension
News
Updated Nebraska land values, cash rents published in report
The 2024-2025 Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey reports a 2% drop in the…
Mar 21, 2025 · By UNL Extension
Environment
Appeals court rules in favor of corner-crossing hunters
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of four hunters in…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
North Dakota dairy farm plans to add processing
North Dakota’s struggling dairy industry could get a boost from a new milk processing…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Jeff Beach, North Dakota Monitor
Community
March PRCA world standings
The top five contestants and earnings as of March 19.
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
February precipitation increases snowpack across most of MT
“February was, overall, a month of steady snow accumulation in Montana,” said Eric Larson,…
Mar 21, 2025 · By USDA NRCS
News
Logan’s Comments: The wait and see
We hardly ever hear how our industries are being used and what could possibly…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Logan Ipsen
News
Guest Opinion: In the shadow of guilt
Conflict, secrets, drama, nepotism, avoidance, privilege and bias can float just under the surface…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Lance Woodbury, DTN farm business adviser
Environment
Texas Senate panel sends message to Trump: Get our water from Mexico
Texas senators advanced a resolution on March 10 that calls on the U.S. State…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune
News
Guest Opinion: Will tariffs arrive in time to save American lamb?
The U.S. sheep industry reveals what happens when our nation ignores market failure for…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Bill Bullard, CEO, R-CALF USA
News
Guest Opinion: Moving toward clarity on WOTUS
Farmers have been caught in a regulatory tug of war around WOTUS for years.
Mar 21, 2025 · By Zippy Duvall, AFBF president
News
USDA details $10B in payments for commodity producers
Commodity producers were set to see their share of $10 billion under the new…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Chris Clayton, DTN ag policy editor
Health/Nutrition
There is no such thing as a free cow lunch
Cow-calf producers are enjoying record calf prices but maximizing profits still requires managing costs.…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist
Environment
US pauses Columbia River water-sharing negotiations with Canada
The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital Chronicle
News
Organic food import values increase to $5.7B
For more than a decade, the value of U.S. organic imports has increased, rising…
Mar 21, 2025 · By USDA Economic Research Service
Environment
Tips to prevent barn swallow nests this spring
Whether you love watching barn swallows up close or dread the mess they leave…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
News
The impact of ag cooperatives in the upper Midwest
South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension has published a study on the economic impact…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
News
Fed judge denies ADM dismissal motions
A federal court denied four motions to dismiss a securities lawsuit filed against Archer…
Mar 21, 2025 · By Todd Neeley, DTN environmental editor
Beef
Meati Foods to close CO plant
Fungi-based alt-meat startup Meati Foods has warned employees of impending mass layoffs after a…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Mono Lake area horse removal planned
The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service have approved a plan to…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
News
ENSO-neutral conditions expected for summer
According to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, tropical Pacific atmospheric anomalies continued…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
Effort proposed to rename New York strip steak
Lieutenant Gov. of Texas Dan Patrick has proposed renaming the New York strip steak…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
News
CA Mid-State Fair bans poultry, dairy
Due to a statewide ban on poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions implemented by the…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Health/Nutrition
US CattleTrace, Where Food Comes From join forces
U.S. CattleTrace has formed a strategic alliance with Where Food Comes From Inc. to…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
American Foods Group closes SD plant
Cimpl’s Meats in Yankton, SD, closed its doors on March 15 after 76 years,…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Livestock
R-CALF requests import relief for lamb, mutton
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF) USA penned a letter to the secretary of Commerce,…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
Comment periods reopened for ESA listings
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopened comment periods for several species proposed for…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CO ag groups call to suspend wolf ballot measure
In a mid-March letter, a coalition of ag industry groups requested the suspension of…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Environment
CA county declares gray wolf emergency
The Modoc County Board of Supervisors in California signed a resolution confirming a local…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Beef
China renews only pork, poultry export contracts
China renewed the export registrations for hundreds of U.S. pork and poultry facilities but…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
News
USDA to reinstate July Cattle inventory report
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced March 19 that it plans to reinstate several…
Mar 21, 2025 · By WLJ
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Thursday, March 20
The livestock complex experienced gains driven by bullish fundamentals and interest from managed funds.
Mar 20, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
News
Weekly Drought Report: March 13-19
Major spring storms have fueled an exceptionally active period of weather.
Mar 20, 2025 · By WLJ
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Wednesday, March 19
Cattle futures closed higher on optimism of steady to higher cash trade and strong…
Mar 19, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Tuesday, March 18
Traders put the brakes on the rally seen over the past few days, with…
Mar 18, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Monday, March 17
Futures kicked off the week on a strong note. Cash trade remained light, but…
Mar 17, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Daily Market Wrap Up
Market Wrap-Up: Friday, March 14
Cattle markets rounded out the week on a higher note.
Mar 14, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
News
2024 wheat midge sampling forecasts low risk for 2025
“Soil samples collected in North Dakota wheat fields indicate the lowest populations of overwintering…
Mar 14, 2025 · By NDSU Extension
Community
The Viewpoint with Jay Nordhausen
From growing up around the Ogallala Livestock Auction Market to becoming a prominent leader…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Beef
January beef exports above 2024
Exports of U.S. beef trended higher than a year ago in January, according to…
Mar 14, 2025 · By USMEF
Markets
Markets climb higher on futures’ hot streak
Cattle futures posted significant gains over the week as traders pushed contracts to new…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Livestock
Texas sheep, goat prices rise as supply tightens
Texas sheep and goat producers are benefiting from strong market conditions in early 2025…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Beef
Rabobank reports shift in dynamics for beef-producing nations
As the global beef industry navigates shifting economic conditions, trade policies and consumer habits,…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Charles Wallace
Environment
Niman Ranch founder sues NPS over Point Reyes plan
The founder of Niman Ranch, William Niman, and his wife, Nicolette Hahn Niman, have…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
Environment
SD governor signs eminent domain ban on carbon pipelines
South Dakota Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden announced that he signed a bill banning the…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight
Environment
EPA to revise WOTUS definition
Ranchers may be seeing some regulatory relief as the government reworks water rules that…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Anna Miller Fortozo
News
Logan’s Comment’s: All eyes on the US
While the strong market continues, weather patterns across the country are showing a drought…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Logan Ipsen
News
Dittmer’s Take: Turbulent beginning to spring
Markets are always looking for a reason to be worried. Tariffs are a reason…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Steve Dittmer, WLJ columnist
Health/Nutrition
Predator problems? A control guide for livestock producers
Based on 2020 market values, predators cause approximately $4 million in losses annually to…
Mar 14, 2025 · By K-State Research and Extension
News
New genetic tool makes grain breeding faster
Scientists at University of California (UC), Davis have developed a new genetic tool that…
Mar 14, 2025 · By UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Environment
MT bill would help protect goat owners from losses
Goats could get some protection from predators, especially from coyotes, under a new bill…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Jordan Hansen, Daily Montanan
Health/Nutrition
Geneticist outlines promise of gene editing
An animal geneticist at the University of California (UC), Davis told Kansas cattle producers…
Mar 14, 2025 · By K-State Research and Extension
News
EU retaliates with tariffs on ag exports
The European Union on March 12 imposed retaliatory tariffs on $28 billion in U.S.…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Chris Clayton, DTN ag policy editor
Environment
Initial CVP water allotment may not increase plantings
Farmers south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta who irrigate with water supplied by the…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Christine Souza, Ag Alert senior editor, California Farm Bureau
News
Exports of raw materials increase for biomass-based diesel fuels
As biofuel use grows, demand for the raw materials used as feedstocks in biofuel…
Mar 14, 2025 · By USDA Economic Research Service
Livestock
Strong cattle markets threatened by uncertainty, volatility
Cattle prices continue to generally grind higher amid a whirlwind of political activities and…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist
News
Real estate values, ag transitions in CA’s Central Valley
In California’s Central Valley, the value of farmland is closely tied to agricultural production,…
Mar 14, 2025 · By University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
Health/Nutrition
Don’t forget about Mom this calving season
The 2025 cattle inventory report wasn’t a big surprise with the beef cow numbers…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Dr. David Secrist, Utah State University Extension beef specialist
Health/Nutrition
CA Senate hears about response to bird flu outbreak
With California’s robust investment and experience in animal disease surveillance and detection, there’s little…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Ching Lee, Ag Alert editor, California Farm Bureau
Health/Nutrition
Determining proper bull-to-female ratios
Breeding season is approaching, and bull turnout is only weeks away for herds that…
Mar 14, 2025 · By Mark Z. Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension beef cattle breeding specialist