KANSAS CITY — Throughout 2024, US beef cattle producers worked to determine how herd rebuilding will affect the beef during the next few years. Charlotte Talbott, animal agriculture sustainability ...

PENDLETON — The beef cycle probably peaked this fall with a record price of $245 per hundredweight for fed cattle, but the market should drop only slightly in 2026 as supply slowly rebuilds, said a ...

The cattle market moves in cycles, usually lasting nine to 10 years. The current cycle is already in its 12 th year, including its seventh year of contraction, the longest since the 1990-2004 cycle.

The first heat wave of summer can have negative effects on cattle, but it’s the second heat wave causes the most damage, say University of Missouri Extension specialists. MU Extension state specialist ...

Nobody likes to feel stressed, cattle included. And those cattle definitely don’t want to experience heat stress. But with the summer quickly approaching, it’s inevitable that heat stress is going to ...

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 beef and ...