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The nation’s cattle inventory, scorched by a record-breaking drought in Texas, has plummeted to a 60-year low, triggering concerns that beef prices will spiral higher for consumers.

Logan Bower is one of four recipients of the Beef Quality Assurance Award.

Pavilion D will be home to beef and livestock exhibitors, seminars, live cattle demonstrations and a ranching and livestock competition, Feb. 14-16 in Tulare, Calif.

The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011 now heads to the House floor with bipartisan support.

SAN ANTONIO - The searing drought has forced members of the largest livestock association in Texas to reduce their herds by almost 40 percent, but it has not shaken their confidence in the future of the industry.

FORT WORTH - This week, rancher Donnell Brown will do something he never thought his family’s spread would consider.The 106-year-old R.A. Brown Ranch will ship hundreds of beefcows, bred heifers and bulls 1,300 miles to Montana.Like a latter-day version of the 19th-century cattle drives by Charles Goodnight and Jesse Chisholm, tens of thousands of dogies are moving north.

On this Ohio cattle farm, escaping the pasture is not just a challenge -- it’s a way of life.

Research has found that producers’ attitudes toward the beef checkoff program remain stable and are favorable.

Cattle and sheep herds are being culled or completely liquidated on West Texas ranches as drought and heat bake away vegetation on the rocky hills and once fertile valleys.

EPA Region 7 announced today that it has issued administrative compliance orders to six concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, directing those operations to correct a range of violations of the federal Clean Water Act.