Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

The scent of cattle is an unavoidable assault on the senses at an Arkansas dairy farm on a hot October day. But it's a ...

There are an estimated 100 or more registered Wagyu farmers in the U.S. with more than 40,000 Wagyu or Wagyu-influenced cattle. And out of that 40K cattle, only around 5,000 are considered 100% ...

President Donald Trump's beef import plan aims to cut prices, but cattle ranchers say it misses what’s crushing them most — the power of meat packers. "Meat packers have created a system where they ...

A joke that made the rounds in the financially troubled 1980s involved a farmer who hauled two Holstein bull calves to his local livestock market. Not only did the calves fail to sell; an unknown ...

Checking for pregnancy in beef cattle may cost ranchers money upfront, but could greatly benefit them financially in the long run, as well as help with herd productivity. “It's not cheap to feed ...

When Shawn Sagrera was 6, his dad told him he could pick out any cow to be his own. That was the day he became a fourth-generation Louisiana cattle farmer. Now, his family legacy continues in Sagrera ...