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Unpacking the Beef: Report Clarifies Cattle Market Realities, Packer Challenges & Trade Tensions

Cattle producers are enjoying record prices, while beef packers are suffering under negative margins. The shortage of ...
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Cattle supply hits 70-year low, local ranchers weigh in

M IDLAND, Texas (KOSA) - Across the United States, all food prices are trending upward, but none more noticeably than beef.
Agri-Pulse

Beefpacking expansion plans surge even as cattle numbers drop

A proposed 8,000-head-per-day beef processing facility in South Dakota is joining a packed roster of planned and existing plants that could be forced to compete for shrinking cattle inventories ...
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Spring Cattle Processing Tips to Enhance Herd Health and Diminish Stress

Pastures are turning green, which means it’s time to work cows and calves. Achieving the best results with vaccines requires using the correct syringes and needles, good management practices and ...
Reuters

Explainer: How four big companies control the U.S. beef industry

according to the North American Meat Institute, an industry group. The amount of cattle slaughtered by the four firms rose from 25% in 1977 to 71% in 1992, according to USDA data. A shift toward ...
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Oklahoma Tribes Are Fighting Corporate Consolidation of the Cattle Industry—and Building Food Sovereignty

HOMINY, OKLA.— Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook a nearly 700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly ...