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$42 million budget on tap for coming year.

New Mexico State University is partnering with Texas A&M and other universities across the country on a $9.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to research bovine respiratory disease and how to reduce its prevalence in beef and dairy cattle.

Listen up, urban dwellers. The Ohio State Fair opens today in Columbus, so here’s your chance to pretend you know a thing or two about agriculture. To help out, we’re offering a brief cattle primer to help you sort Holsteins from Herefords.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced today that U.S. producers are now eligible to ship a larger array of U.S. beef and beef products to Chile.

They say the Environmental Protection Agency’s numeric nutrient criteria is flawed.

During the seven-year drought of the 1950s, the old-timers of that era told tales about the drought of the 1930s being worse: “Why, it was so dry that jackrabbits west of the Pecos grazed at full gallop to keep from starving to death.”

Assess, prioritize and then act to manage high feed costs.

Tom Jones from Pottsville, Ark., was elected during the 2011 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in this past week Denver, Colo.

Pennsylvania’s John Ligo of LiTerra Farms received the annual national Beef Quality Assurance award.

Seed companies put twin-row corn to the test