South Dakota feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 235,000 cattle on feed on March 1, 2025, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. This inventory was ...

Tight supplies of cattle and resilient demand for beef are expected to support fed steer prices this year, according to projections at the Agricultural Outlook Forum.

Beef prices are rising and will soon surge. According to Bloomberg, US herds are the smallest in seven decades. Experts ...

Feedlot placements during February totaled 1.55 million head, 18 percent below 2024. During February, placements of calves ...

Randy Koenen of Red River Farm Network and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss what appears to be the calm before the storm on the Agweek Market Wrap.

WASHINGTON – The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) confirmed that it would return the July Cattle Inventory report and the County Estimates for ...

The Agriculture Department’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced today it is reinstating the July Cattle report, as well as County Estimates for Crops and Livestock.The county ...

USDA will reinstate the July Cattle Report and County Crop Estimates after budget cuts halted them last year, addressing ...

Less than a year after USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced it was nixing a major cattle ...

After a recent halt in operations at Cimpl’s in Yankton, it seems that the cattle industry may not be so simple. “The cattle ...

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, cattle inventory in the United States is at its lowest. For farmers, this ...

A push to change the accounting of feedlot emissions has taken another step, with the publication of research demonstrating ...