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A 75-year low in U.S. inventory and restricted Mexican imports are tightening supplies. As grilling season nears, strong demand and record cash trades continue to propel the market despite geopolitical tensions.
From cyberattacks to succession, top producers share how they turned high-stakes crises into strategic growth. Discover how balancing data with values and peer relationships can transform agricultural risk.
With the lack of rebuilding the strong cattle market could be extended another year.
Brad Kooima discusses the drivers behind current cattle market volatility and how supply shortages are shaping packer strategies.
Oklahoma State’s Derrell Peel says the beef industry needs time — not politics or policy — to solve beef supply and demand realities.
Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek says the feeder futures have put on $22 this week and were due for a correction but still project to $388. Grains see pressure from China trade news.
The 2025 State of the Beef Industry Report summarizes optimism prevails yet challenges persist in today’s beef industry.
Infection may not directly impact herd health, but it can have implications for nutritional management.
Following a New World screwworm assessment by USDA staff in Mexico and ongoing conversations between Secretary Rollins and the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, USDA will start reopening the ports for cattle, bison and equine.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announces plans to reopen Moore Air Base in Texas as a New World screwworm sterile fly distribution facility. Long-term production is anticipated to be 300 million sterile flies per week.
Unpack two key factors likely resulting in record cattle prices and impacts to the industry.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) suspended imports of live cattle and bison from Mexico on Nov. 22, 2024, following the detection of New World screwworm (NWS) along Mexico’s southern border.
Tony Schwarck of Riceville, Iowa, diversified his family’s crop operation with a feedlot.
A fraudulent cattle scheme allegedly orchestrated by a Kentucky cattleman has left investors and a financial institution reeling under a $100 million loss.
Packers were successful in filling their needs at steady money this week as wholesale beef prices moved lower. Feedyards were content to reduce showlists but remaining cattle are priced higher.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee was paid to allow tick infested and diseased cattle to enter the country, according to an indictment filed in a Laredo federal court last week.
An unprecedented meeting held in May among major cattle industry representatives, typically at odds, has produced plans for change and calls for answers from U.S. lawmakers. Keep up with the latest on this page.
