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Senators Jon Tester, Chuck Grassley, and Mike Rounds recently reintroduced their Meat Packing Special Investigator Act, which they say is an effort to fight consolidation and enforce the national anti-trust laws.  The bill would create the “Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters” within the USDA.  The office would be...

Recent reports from the USDA reveal current trends in the cattle markets.  American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Bernt Nelson, called the recent report bullish, with total cattle on feed coming in right around 11.4 million, down 1% year-over-year.  He note...

Placements were the story of USDA’s most recent Cattle on Feed Report. Placements were up 9% year-over-year, driven primarily by the poor pasture conditions in the Plains region. Derrell Peel, livestock economist, says cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the U.S. fo ...

USDA's January WASDE report had a modest change for the meat production outlook. "For 2022, in terms of beef production...increased our beef production forecast by 160 million pounds," said World Ag Outlook Boar Chair Mark Jekanowski ...

The Ag, as well as the non-Ag communities in Oregon are being warned of a push to get an initiative on the ballot that could dramatically impact farming across the state. IP-13 would make it a crime to fish and hunt, but it would also remove a lot of the exemptions the Ag community currently enjoys ...

Beef production forecasts have been lowered for this year and next. But, why? "On the one hand we're seeing higher cow slaughter, but on the other hand we're seeing a reduction in steer and heifer slaughter and lower carcass weights," noted USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair, Mark Jekanowski ...

Food supply chain disruptions and how to reduce them in future as well as disease outbreaks were front-and-center recently at the House Small Business Committee. One of the farm leaders with suggestions was National Farmers Union chief Rob Larew ...

Starting in October, several changes are coming to the Washington cattle industry, including new rules for selling cattle in the state, an increase in fees, and most notably the migration to USDA approved Radio Frequency Identification Tags, better known as RFIDs...