Almost everyone in the cattle business knows these two things: (1) the feeder cattle market has demonstrated tremendous strength in reaching and sustaining record price levels during the past year, ...

The outlook for 2026 is one of cautious optimism anchored by structural evolution. The U.S. dairy industry is no longer just ...

Smith: As farmers and ranchers work to adapt to changing economic conditions across the farm economy, one sector in ...

Government buyout programs have long been part of the dairy industry. Western United Dairies says the Make America More ...

Dairy cows line up to eat in the barn. (USDA photo) Revenue from breeding beef calves softened the blow of drop in milk prices during 2025. By hanging on to cows for breeding, farms may have fed an ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Raising beef on dairy-crossed cattle is starting to have a significant impact on the beef market. For the past five to six years, beef on dairy cattle have become more common in ...

U.S. milk production is hitting records, but shrinking replacement heifer numbers and aging herds signal tighter, more ...

Brenda Boetel, department chair of Agricultural Economics at UW-River Falls and Extension agricultural marketing specialist, ...

A growing number of dairies are breeding some of their cows—the ones they don’t plan to raise replacement heifers from--to beef bulls, using semen from Angus or Charolais. The beef-dairy cross calves ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single cow raised for meat produces between 154 and 264 pounds of methane per year, according to the U.S. Environmental ...