Archive for January 2020

Sitting just outside of Missoula, Montana, the cattle at Oxbow Cattle Company is grass-fed and finished. For owner/operators Bart and Wendy Morris, treating their herd with the highest standard of…

The following article was written by Brent Bunderson, a retired Utah State University county extension agent. Included are his observations of factors that may influence the occurrence of daytime or…

All classes of cattle traded lower on the week. Fed cattle traded in the South at $122 per cwt., $2 lower. Trade in the North was mostly $121 to $121.50…

The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of Greg Hanes, CEO, Cattlemen’s Beef Board. Beef exports and imports are certainly a challenging topic to tackle for American cattle farmers and ranchers,…

Three keynotes, 30 breakouts, an interactive expo and experts provided big ideas and tangible lessons during the 2019 AgTech Expo. 1. Data is Transforming Ag Three technologies — artificial intelligence,…

All cattle and calves in the United States as of January 1, 2020 totaled 94.4 million head, slightly below the 94.8 million head on January 1, 2019, USDA reported Friday.…

Last week, I accompanied the Oregon Beef Council and Oregon State University Extension Service to provide a tour for eastern Oregon ranchers at the CS Beef plant in Kuna, Idaho. …

A Montana magistrate judge granted summary judgement Wednesday (Jan. 29, 2020) to the government and the 15 qualified state beef councils targeted in the R-CALF vs. Sonny Perdue lawsuit. That decision…

Cattle feeding margins jumped $72 per head higher the week ending Jan. 25 as the value of feeder cattle calculated against those closeouts declined $8 per cwt. Average feedyard closeouts…