CROCKETT, Texas — With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling supply from ...

Ag economists continue to watch the trends in cow slaughter and what it could mean for markets. David Anderson, professor and Extension economist for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, wrote in his “In the ...

Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. Dairy farmers say they ...

URBANA, Ill. – Once a year, USDA releases its comprehensive Cattle report, which includes survey-based estimates of the all cattle and calves inventory, the calf crop, beef and dairy cow inventories, ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- At this point in 2013, fed cattle prices have generally been disappointing, compared with 2012 forecasts, which called for prices in the low $130s for much of the first half of 2013 ...

Milk prices plunged early last month leaving it more affordable for California farmers to send hundreds of dairy cows to a slaughter house. "I don't ever remember being able to produce milk at that ...