The latest articles, livestock market coverage, and industry updates from Stock Point Media.
When wildfire smoke fills the air, many people wonder if spraying irrigation water or waiting for rain will help clear the smoke away. Michigan State scientists think that may not be the case.
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Even as Travis Bloomer guided his horse through the scorched land and the acrid cloying smoke, wondering if he would find the charred carcasses of his family’s cattle, he was gratified by so much that he did see.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a substantial boost to domestic timber production across Oregon and Nevada in an attempt to improve forest health and support timber businesses in the West.
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Despite volatile cattle and hog markets, many producers continue to avoid futures and options.
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This U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) week saw degradations across the areas of the Plains, Upper Midwest, and Florida, while rainfall during the past week led to improvements in drought-affected areas of the South, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. In the West, a mix of improvements and degradations occurred on the map with improvements across areas of Idaho and Montana in response to above-normal rainfall during the past 30-day period.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to begin lifting its suspension on Mexican cattle imports by reopening the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry in about 30 days, according to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Two additional ports in New Mexico are expected to reopen later.
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Perennial warm-season grasses can still look green in midsummer even as their nutritional value declines. Forage analysis from several Oklahoma forage systems shows that this change begins earlier than many producers expect.
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Wyoming ranchers are struggling with an existential problem out of their control. Hay has become harder to find, harder to grow, and more expensive to buy. Some say this will hasten the end of family farms and ranches that can’t afford to feed their animals.
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As producers prepared for summer video sales, June marked the highest monthly enrollment in AngusLink® history at 62,560 head and 145 enrollments.
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With cattle prices at historical highs, few investments carry more weight for a cow-calf operation than the decision to add replacement females. A producer has several options: they can buy a bred heifer to add to their herd or retain and develop a heifer calf of their own, delaying her first calf by a year for a lower upfront cost.
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he USDA’s semiannual cattle inventory report may offer an incomplete picture of herd rebuilding because beef-on-dairy cattle have changed the makeup of feedlots and replacement markets. Producers Livestock’s Alex Gerdes says the industry is entering unfamiliar territory.
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The world’s biggest meat company, JBS, faces a landmark legal challenge to disclose how its $6bn (£4.5bn) global expansion plan is compatible with responsibilities to the climate, nature and human rights.
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The population of rural America continued to grow in 2024, reaching 46.2 million people. Rural residents now represent 13.6% of the total population of the United States.
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Following USDA' Secretary Brooke Rollins' announcement in March, companies are starting to adopt the new label as part of their marketing efforts to promote beef raised and processed in the U.S. Read below to see who is the latest to use the label under the new program.
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Following the July 15 USDA announcement by Secretary Brooke Rollins during a meeting with the National Corn Growers Association that a necessary review of the current National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is due for a modernization highlights the growing frustration across commodities, acreage, and inventory reports about the accuracy of data being reported by the organization.
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To advance the Trump administration’s actions to safeguard American agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Ivermectin Liquid for Horses (ivermectin oral solution) for the short-term prevention of New World screwworm (NWS) infestations (myiasis) in horses. The product is authorized for use when administered within 24 hours of birth or at the time of initial wound care. Ivermectin Liquid for Horses is not for use in species other than horses.
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Walmart shares press release with consumers, citing good news that prices for beef and other food favorites will drop after tariff-driven price hikes earlier in 2026.
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TikTok in-app shopping is an emerging growth channel, with food category sales more than doubling over the year.
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Rains exceeding 2 inches fell this week in northeast South Dakota and from parts of south-central Nebraska southeast through parts of northeast Kansas
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mericans are learning that food security is national security, as global conflicts and China's actions drive up food prices. China, a major fertilizer producer, is actively exploiting global shortages by restricting fertilizer and sulfuric acid exports, removing millions of tons from the market and significantly increasing international costs. This strategic move, mirroring past tactics with rare earth minerals, forces American farmers to pay more for essential inputs. Policymakers are now calling for robust responses, including prohibiting China from purchasing U.S. raw materials while restricting its own exports, designating fertilizer inputs as strategic, accelerating domestic production, and enforcing fair competition to counter Beijing's market manipulation.
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New research examines what wolves are eating, how livestock respond to their presence Two new studies examining gray wolves in California paint a complex picture of life on California’s ranching landscapes: wolves eat cattle more than anything else and the presence of the predators causes significant stress among livestock.
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Cattle markets weakened Thursday as August live cattle fell $2.60 and feeders dropped $3.53, while boxed beef lost another $4.19, bringing the two-day Choice decline to $6.09. Cash cattle traded mostly $255/cwt. Despite the pullback, 2025 cow prices remain at a record $149/cwt, up 18% from 2024 and 247% since 2003.
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Corn planted area for all purposes in 2025 is estimated at 95.2 million acres, up 5 percent or 4.61 million acres from last year.
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As the largest U.S. wildfire continued to rage in Utah on Tuesday, ranchers reported finding dead cattle strewn across burned grazing land, and the state agriculture commissioner said it could take years for ranchers to recover from the devastation.
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Beef cow slaughter is one of many metrics used to gauge expansion efforts. When beef cow slaughter starts decreasing, we assume efforts are being made to stabilize the herd by not culling as hard. So far in 2026, beef cow slaughter is down 17%, or 179,300 head, compared to the same period in 2025.
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Corn stocks in all positions on June 1, 2026 totaled 5.29 billion bushels, up 14 percent from June 1, 2025. Of the total stocks, 2.96 billion bushels are stored on farms, up 16 percent from a year earlier
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Chaney Akin of Cody didn’t just dominate the National Junior High Finals Rodeo last week on her diminutive – but nationally famous – horse in Oklahoma, she took home two world rodeo titles. Her famous horse has earned more than $300,000 running barrels.
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A Pattison, Texas, woman turned herself in Monday morning in Jasper after investigators say she and her husband spent months rustling cattle across multiple counties — writing hot checks and checks on closed accounts at auction barns throughout the region.
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Broadcaster Ron Hays features comments from two leading beef cattle economists, Dr. Derrell Peel and Dr. David Anderson, about the economic unknowns surrounding the spread of New World Screwworm and what it could mean for the U.S. cattle industry.
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JBS will continue buying cattle in Pennsylvania despite closing its large slaughter plant in the state. Still, beef industry members expect the planned Aug. 14 closure of the Souderton plant will hurt farmers’ profits.
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New research highlights the challenges beef and dairy producers face using the H-2A guestworker program.
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For farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners, these three recent Supreme Court rulings serve as a critical reminder of the need to aggressively ground legal authority strictly in written statutory text to keep government power in check.
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Mandatory country-of-origin labeling for beef appears increasingly unlikely to make it into the 2026 Farm Bill after a draft released this week by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) omitted the provision.
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Downpours related to frontal interactions with tropical moisture, including Tropical Storm Arthur, delivered drought relief but caused local flooding
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USDA's June Cattle on Feed report showed 11.682 million head of cattle and calves on feed in feedlots with capacities of 1,000 head or more as of June 1, up 2% from 11.443 million head a year ago
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Exports of U.S. pork maintained strong momentum this spring, led by broad-based growth in Asian and Western Hemisphere markets, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). Beef exports trended lower in April due to the impasse with China, along with year-over-year declines in other major markets.
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The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) recognized Colyer Herefords and Angus, Bruneau, Idaho, as the 2026 BIF Seedstock Producer of the Year on June 3 during the group’s annual research symposium in Boise, Idaho. This national award recognizes a producer’s dedication to improving the beef industry at the seedstock level.
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After months of anticipation the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) announced it has received confirmation of a detection of New World screwworm (NWS) in Zavala County, Texas.
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