cattle production

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association denounced Google’s decision to bias consumers against beef through their new sustainability search feature.  NCBA says that feature provides inaccurate climate information about cattle production.   “Google is u...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association expressed disappointment this week over the White House’s recent Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy.   NC...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association said it’s not ready to back a cattle competition bill by House Ag Chair David Scott but adds the legislation is a much better starting point than the alternative.  While the NCBA opposes Senator Chuck Grassley’s Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, Tanner Beymer said they aren’t ready either to back Scott’s Small Family Farmer and Rancher Relief Ac

The Washington Cattlemen's Association has concerns about the federal government getting involved in issues between beef producers and meat packers. The WCA’s Mark Streuli said government intervention to try and make things more equitable between producers and packers is a delicate issue. "This is de ...

In the 33 lines of summary in the USDA's early look at cattle numbers, the words "Down," or "Below" were used 17 times. The national numbers turned out lower than most industry annalists expected. Top of the summary, the inventory of all cattle and calf's in the U ...

CattleFax has released its annual Cow-Calf Survey. The information requested in the survey provides participants and the rest of the industry with valuable data regarding industry benchmarks and trends. Survey participants will get a results summary packet containing useful benchmarking information that will allow them to evaluate their own operation ...

The House voted 418-9 to advance legislation that would extend the authorization for Livestock Mandatory Reporting through September 30th, 2022. House Agriculture Chairman David Scott said that does not preclude market reforms to help independent producers ...

In Today's Future of Farming, JonWyn Ayres, the 2021-2022 Oregon FFA Secretary, explains why she's so passionate about the cattle industry, specifically the angus breed. If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekmedia... Read More ...

Oregon's Ron Wyden and Montana's Jon Tester announced this week they are working with Republican Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Deb Fischer of Nebraska rolling out the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act. The compromise cattle market bill is part of the effort to "to return fairness to the cattle marketplace dominated by four major meatpackers" ...

R-CALF USA recently sent a white paper to the Senate Agriculture Committee calling for mandating large packing plants to purchase at least 50% of their cattle needs from negotiated cash cattle markets. R-CALF USA says the white paper provides real-time evidence that varying minimum cash cattle purchase requirements region-to-region will allow major beef packers to continue denying timely market a