Risk Protection

New Florida Beef Council Board Member Discusses Recent Training in Denver

Dale Sandlin General

Cattle producers from across the country gathered last week to experience training on their new roles as beef council board members representing their home states. Florida Beef Council Board Member Kevin Escobar recapped this training.  Escobar also pointed out the return on investment that the Beef Checkoff is providing. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober …

aca

Alabama Cattlemen’s Association Hosts Farm Tours with Dieticians

Dale Sandlin General

The Alabama Cattlemen’s Association held farm tours with the Alabama Dietetic Association members in conjunction with their annual meeting.  The group toured Curtis Farms in North Alabama and had the ability to interact with the farm’s owners on production practices within the industry as well as interacting with a beef influencer to discuss the ways in which the dietician’s patients …

Milk Production

Milk Production Forecast for 2025

Dan Dairy, Marketing

Forecasts for the 2025 milk production and prices and other trends were recently released. Rusty Halvorson has a look at what the new predictions show. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

labeling regulations

Concerns about Pesticide Labeling Regulations

Dan Peanuts

The peanut industry recently sent a letter to Washington D.C. about concerns with the misrepresentation concerning labeling regulations for pesticides. Tyron Spearman has more details. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

feeder cattle

Feeder Cattle Supplies Getting Tighter

Dan Cattle, Marketing

The recent Cattle on Feed Report from USDA indicates feeder cattle supplies are getting tighter. Mark Oppold runs through some of the new numbers. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

beef

Australia’s Beef Production and Exports Set Records

Dan Beef, Cattle

Beef output and exports from Australia, the world’s second-largest meat shipper, are expected to set records this year amid increased slaughter rates for female animals. A USDA report from the agency’s office in Canberra, Australia, says production will be 2.65 million metric tons (carcass weight equivalent) in 2025, a 2.4 percent year-over-year increase and up from the prior projection of …

Missouri Bootheel

American Agriculture History Minute: Missouri Boot Hill Logging Industry Begins

Dan American Agriculture History Minute, Forestry, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Agricultural development flourish in most Midwestern states, including Missouri. But the Missouri Bootheel remains swampy and subject to flooding and remain heavily forested, remain underdeveloped, underpopulated. But, beginning in the 1880s, railroads opened up the Bootheel to logging. 1905, Little River Drainage District constructed elaborate ditches, canals, and levees to drain …

e-cap

USDA-FSA Accepting Applications for E-CAP

Dan Agri-Business, Economy, Funding, USDA-FSA

The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) wants to remind producers about the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (E-CAP). Relief payments through E-CAP are based on planted and prevented planted crop acres for eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year. Tyron Spearman has more details. To apply, visit fsa.usda.gov/ecap  using a login.gov account, or contact your local FSA office to request an application. Producers who have not previously reported 2024 crop year …

Cattle on Feed

U.S. Cattle on Feed Down 2 Percent

Dan Cattle

The USDA released their March Cattle on Feed Report, which shows the number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the U.S. for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head was 11.6 million head on March 1, 2025, two percent below March 1, 2024. The report also notes placements in feedlots during February totaled 1.55 million …