No signs of cattle herd expansion and tighter supplies were the takeaways from USDA’s latest “Cattle on Feed” report. Released on Friday, the report showed feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.0 million head on August 1, 2023, 2% below August 1, 2022. While this number was in line with the pre-report […]

A bipartisan group of more than 170 lawmakers is urging Congress not to include the EATS Act in the new farm bill. That legislation, formally known as the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act, would bar states from passing laws affecting agriculture production in other states. It was proposed after the Supreme Court upheld California’s controversial […]

Select Sires Inc. and Inguran LLC (dba STgen) have signed a letter of intent to combine Select Sires Inc.’s and STgen’s production, research and development functions into a new company. The six U.S. farmer-owned cooperatives that provide exceptional sales, service, and support for the Select Sires family of products will remain independent and continue to […]

AN opportunity to secure rare scale and vast water entitlements in New South Wales’ Lachlan Valley is predicted to draw significant institutional investor interest to AAM Investment Group’s Sunshine Farms Aggregation, near Forbes. Positioned in the backbone of the state’s sheep and wheat belts, the aggregation has been strategically assembled to include 14,074ha of premium […]