“The livestock complex is trading about as excitingly as it would on a day before a long three-day weekend,” ShayLe Stewart, DTN livestock analyst, commented during the midday.  Read more

The Texas A&M Forest Service is accepting grant applications for the State Fire Assistance for Mitigation—Plains Prescribed Fire Grant through Aug. 15. The grant will provide $74,514 in total funding for prescribed burns. Read more

This latest report confirms that the feedlot situation continues to improve relative to the slaughter capacity constraints that plagued fed cattle markets in early 2021.  Read more

In any successful business, decision-makers are always adjusting to outside influences. In the cattle business, culling decisions sometimes are made on reproductive status and feed availability.  Read more

As the U.S. Senate continues searching for some means of balance to pass a massive infrastructure bill, Republicans on July 21 launched a series of floor speeches, press releases and a letter to President Joe Biden attacking Democratic spending and tax proposals, arguing they would put family farms and ranches in the crosshairs. Read more

A senator has placed a hold on Biden’s nomination of Janie Simms Hipp to be USDA general counsel. Read more

A robust Southwestern monsoon circulation delivered drought-easing rainfall. Critically dry conditions persisted across northern California and the Northwest. Read more

For the month of July through July 21, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported at least 10 livestock had been attacked or killed by wolves.  Read more

Ellington Peek of Cottonwood, CA, was recognized as the recipient of the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) Industry Icon Award at the 2021 LMA Annual Convention in Nashville, TN. Read more