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 ...

Tyson Foods is preparing to shut down one of its largest beef processing plants, a move that underscores how a shrinking U.S.

Despite the United States’ long and storied past with cattle ranching, long-term research on health, nutrition and management ...

For the week ending November 22, Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were steady to $10/cwt lower on average. Earlier in ...

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 ...

Outbreak investigators say a cattle feedlot near a canal providing water to growing regions in Arizona is a key element in their hypothesis about the source of E. coli that contaminated romaine ...

Close up, a feedlot cow is a sight to behold: It’s a hulking, broad-shouldered eating machine with a three-foot-long tongue and a jaw that never seems to stop chewing. At just 20 months old, one of ...

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 ...

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.

We visited the Billing Livestock Commission to try to understand what a $4/pound cow looks like as beef prices in the U.S.

Cattle at 5 Star Feedlot outside of Bethune, Colo. The facility can hold up to 28,000 cattle at a time. After a 2015 rainstorm, bait shop owner Kenny Condrey went to check on some river-fed ponds near ...