Fed Cattle
The 2025 State of the Beef Industry Report summarizes optimism prevails yet challenges persist in today’s beef industry.
Potassium may often be an underappreciated mineral in the world of ruminant nutrition, but it plays key roles in the body.
Ag tech startup MyAnIML and USDA find first-of-its-kind facial recognition technology successfully analyzes cattle muzzles to predict illness.
Kay Russo, DVM, Novonesis technical services manager for dairy and poultry, emphasized the situation is rapidly evolving and more clarity will come with time as researchers learn more.
Technology and robust data management will allow more cattlemen and smaller processors access to USDA graders to remotely assign official quality grades for beef carcasses, providing an opportunity to increase value.
Prices for day-old beef-X-dairy (BXD) calves are often surprisingly high. But what used to be a highly discounted after-thought (straight dairy calves) is rapidly transforming into a meaningful source of production.
Dairy beef makes up approximately 20% of the fed cattle market.
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) said the July 1, 2019 inventory of all cattle and calves totaled 103 million head, unchanged from last July.
While dairy producers are seeing profitability from milk checks there is also a tremendous opportunity to market cattle into the beef supply thanks to record high beef prices.
Cattle prices are still considerably lower than the highs of two years ago. However, Holstein cattle appear to be facing their own price pressure as buyers push discounts and some packers shut the door.
Dairy steers have the genetic potential to produce well-marbled, lean beef. Producers should ensure a high quality product with responsible management practices.
Survey shows increase in resistance to drug therapies among three years of records from BRD cases.
If they want consolidation, weX_SQ_Xll give X_SQ_Xem consolidation, say feedyards whose goal is a fourth of Texas fed marketings
The U.S. government has refused the request made by the Belgian government to take two flocks of East Friesian sheep back to Belgium, one of the flock’s owners has told reporters.
New manure regulations have been released in Washington affecting dairy and beef producers.
The Veterinary Feed Directive was developed out of the concern for antibiotic resistance associated with daily antibiotic use in animal feeds.
