Beef is the centerpiece of today’s discussion about consumer affordability. You’ve probably heard that today’s high beef prices are the result of a recent widespread drought that reduced the size of ...

Phil Burgess explains to his city-dwelling nephew Wes and niece Emily the journey of meat from farm to table. He starts with cattle raised on western ranches, detailing their growth and transport to ...

Beef operations that keep cattle on lifelong grass-based diets may have an overall higher carbon footprint than those that switch cattle to grain-based diets partway through their lives. Daniel ...

The U.S. cattle herd has shrunk in recent years to the smallest since the early 1950s because droughts and higher production ...

U.S. cattle inventory hits a 75-year low, tightening supplies and driving higher beef prices and market volatility. Learn what the 2026 cattle outlook means for producers and consumers.

VINING, Minn. — Dave Uhren hasn’t marketed his beef cattle at the local stockyards in nearly eight years. Instead, his family’s grass-fed cattle are all processed locally and sold to loyal customers ...

The Dorsey family of Moro, Ill., has a purebred Simmental operation, and their daughters show cattle. Claire’s heifer Dot received Reserve Champion Percentage Simmental Heifer at a 2024 competition in ...

$1,500 or more for beef-on-dairy calves is reason to keep extra cows and breed them with beef semen, which limits dairy ...

Andy Dickerson and Nick Hartley stand in a cow pasture at Bahr Farm. Beef cows graze in a pasture at a small farm nestled between Finneytown and College Hill. The 32-acre Bahr Farm has been around ...

Akaushi cattle at Generations Beef in Dane County, Wisconsin. High-grade Wagyu beef can cost up to two hundred dollars a pound. Wagyu refers to four native Japanese cattle breeds whose meat is most ...

President Donald Trump said that prices for certain proteins like beef, chicken and eggs have declined. Here's what the data ...

More than 50 wagyu beef farms in Missouri are listed with the American Wagyu Association. Because Japan stopped exporting genetically pure wagyu cattle in 1997, most American farmers crossbreed the ...