Beef is not just another line on your grocery receipt, it is a barometer of how strained the entire U.S. cattle system has become. As you look toward 2026, the latest federal outlook signals that ...

Ag columnist Dennis Sun writes, "As long as the U.S. doesn’t open the southern border to Mexican cattle, cattle prices should ...

Cattle inventories hit 1950s lows while prices surge 29 percent as drought and economics drive widespread herd liquidation.

Dec. 1 cattle on feed in line with pre-report estimates. November placements the smallest in series history. Dec. 1 cattle on ...

The December report showed cattle and calves on feed in large feedlots (greater than 1,000 head) totaled 11.727 million head on Dec. 1. USDA livestock analyst Michael McConnell says inventory levels ...

Live and feeder cattle futures made new highs for the move Monday morning after a strong close Friday and higher weekly closes. However, the big catalyst is the bullish USDA Cattle on Feed Report data ...

USDA announced this week it’s nixing a major cattle inventory report. The July Cattle Inventory report, which is only one of two inventory reports released each year, will be no more. The National ...

At a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture’s data users’ meeting, experts from the Agricultural Marketing Service explained the use of the new Livestock Mandatory Reporting Live Cattle Data Dashboard ...

You are watching a collision between pocketbook politics and the realities of the cattle business. As President Trump leans ...

Mexico’s Chief Veterinary Officer notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that it had detected the New World screwworm (NWS) in the southern Mexican ...

Now, high livestock market prices might be the reason for an increase in rustling cases across the country. Reports from ...

In early 2025, through the National Milk Testing Strategy, USDA detected two spillover events in Nevada and Arizona dairy ...