Adding body condition can boost salvage value by hundreds of dollars per head, but feed costs, forage availability and market ...

Pressures at every stage of the 18-month supply chain are expected to keep prices high at least through year end If you’ve bought beef lately, you’ve felt it: Prices are more expensive than ever. The ...

Shrinking cattle supplies continues to be the story in the cattle market and part of the reason cattle prices continue to climb. USDA’s annual Cattle Inventory Report released Friday shows the U.S.

Smaller cattle herds and a decade of headwinds for the industry are expected to push up the cost of burgers and steaks for several years. By Kevin Draper Tom Winter started his hamburger food truck in ...

A lot has been written and discussed about beef cow conformation. The people who show cattle know what’s popular in the show ring, but often the sought-after traits that might win a show won’t be a ...

In a market defined by record-breaking prices, an unlikely partnership is driving the value of ground beef: 980-lb. carcasses and the lean cull cows needed to balance them out. While fed cattle ...

With a historically small traditional beef herd and tight feeder cattle supplies, beef-on-dairy cattle, or dairy cows bred with beef cattle genetics, have become an increasingly important source of ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

OMAHA (DTN) -- Gravity affects beef cattle as it does the human body. Over time, gravity takes hold in ways which are not desirable. This is especially true with beef cows' udders. The perception for ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...