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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The USDA says ranchers, farmers and others who hire H-2A laborers next year will be paying higher wages, and in some cases, the increase is large. Veronica Nigh, senior economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about the increasing costs of farm labor. Nigh says, “The USDA’s Farm Labor Survey told […]
STURGIS, S.D. – Scattered across South Dakota and other states are medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). These are operations with fewer than 1,000 beef cattle, 700 diary cows, 2,500 pigs, 125,000 chickens or 55,000 turkeys. These CAFOs have been exempt from federal environmental assessments since 2016. Until now. In 2018, a coalition of animal-welfare […]
TOPEKA, KS – Intense heat that baked Kansas over the weekend is being blamed for killing thousands of cattle — a toll documented in striking images on social media. “The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is aware of at least 2,000 cattle deaths that occurred in the southwest part of Kansas,” Matt Lara, the […]
KANSAS CITY, MO – In the past 10 years, the fed cattle price has declined 6% from the first week of May through the end of June. Under current conditions, this suggests a $135/cwt. price at the end of June. The June Live Cattle contract currently trading at $133/cwt. is a bit oversold and a […]
BRANDON, SD – Cattle feeders from South Dakota, Minnesota and northwest Iowa are invited to attend an Interstate Cattle Feeders Day Dec. 7 at the Holiday Inn Express Event Center in Brandon, S.D. Sponsored by South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension and the University of Minnesota (UMN) Extension, the program will feature several timely topics […]
BISMARCK, ND – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says there are some options to feed livestock, including feedstocks and feedlots. “With pastures and the hay crop in poor condition, livestock producers have been exploring alternate ways to keep their herd and preserve their genetics,” Goehring said. “Now that we’ve had rain in some areas across the […]
WASHINGTON, DC -The June25 Cattle on Feed (COF) report is modestly friendly with placements a couple percentage points under most guesses. Marketings were in line with expectations leaving COF even with last year. Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 12.1 million head on February 1, 2021. The inventory was 1 percent above February 1, 2020. This is the second highest February 1 inventory since the series began in […]
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