CHICAGO, Sept 25 (Reuters) - US immigration agents fanned out across southwest Kansas, home to a large concentration of feedlots and slaughterhouses, this week in an operation that had immediate ...

The Cattle Herd Hit a 75-Year Low. USDA Will Now Insure Ranchers for Keeping Heifers, but at 63 the Payout Can Reach Social Security. When cattle prices sit at generational highs and a rancher starts ...

Cattle farming and ranching is rooted in tradition. The most valuable tool on any ranch is the knowledge passed from generation to generation. However, today’s cattle producers also embrace new ...

On the day that the Trump administration announced the importation of 300,000 metric tons of ground beef without tariffs in an attempt to reduce current sky-high retail prices, the U.S. Department of ...

Cattle futures were higher early Tuesday seeing a technical bounce after a lower close on Friday but higher weekly closes were posted in both live and feeder cattle futures for the first time in over ...

Eight anaerobic digesters at a Nebraska feedlot will turn cattle manure into roughly 1.2 million MMBtu of pipeline-quality gas a year, with an eye on bio-LNG exports. Fifteen members of Congress warn ...

New research involving more than 1 million Australian feedlot cattle has found that the strongest predictors of death from bovine respiratory disease (BRD) are established before animals even enter ...

The Ranchers First Initiative builds on the USDA’s October 2025 plan to fortify the U.S. beef industry. It focuses on risk management, processing capacity, conservation support and opportunities for ...

\President Trump came under fire from the chief of the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association on Wednesday for agreeing to import beef from other countries to reduce the price of meat at stores nationwide.

Today’s beef price challenges are a supply problem years in the making. Record ground beef prices are the result of the lowest beef cow inventory since 1971, driven by drought-forced liquidation and ...

Cassidy Walter joined Successful Farming in 2022 to cover commodity markets and agribusiness. Previously, she spent more than five years as the Communications Director for the Iowa Renewable Fuels ...

The cattle herd in the U.S. right now is the smallest it has been since the early 1950s. That's tough on consumers, of course, because the tight supply has been driving double-digit inflation when it ...