The December report showed cattle and calves on feed in large feedlots (greater than 1,000 head) totaled 11.727 million head on Dec. 1. USDA livestock analyst Michael McConnell says inventory levels ...

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.1 million head on September 1, 2025. The inventory was 1% below ...

EDGELEY, N.D. — For the fourth year, cattle feedlot operators are feeling the pressure from what they’re worried is a no-win market. Brandon Schweigert, 39, of Edgeley, N.D., says he’s trying to ...

Tyson Foods Inc., the country’s biggest meatpacker, underscored the difficulties for the industry last month as it announced ...

Ranchers are battling over laws that critics say do nothing but prop up an enforcement agency that takes its job way too ...

The United States Cattle on Feed report indicated an increase in inventory, as reported Nov. 17 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report comes from ...

HAPPY, Texas — Randy Shields looked out at a sea of cattle at the sprawling Wrangler Feedyard — 46,000 animals milling about in the dry Panhandle air as a feed truck swept by on its way to their pens.

BALTIC, S.D. — South Dakota State University Extension and South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association Feeders Council partnered together to showcase beef and dairy crossbred cattle through feedlot tours ...

Leading into late 2003, beef export markets were on a roll, said Dan Halstrom, who was then working in Washington, D.C., for ...