According to the Petersen family, the family who works cattle together … can accomplish just about anything together. “It can sometimes be chaos, but we all love each other in the end,” Leah Petersen ...

With the beef industry hitting price records, producers may be looking at putting some profits to good use. An Extension ...

That’s a story about ranchers working with industry and conservation to come to three happy endings. But it’s also a key piece of the story of Karney Spaur, who, at 35, is the first woman executive ...

Iowa cattle farmers say record-low numbers of cows pose more challenges for new ranchers trying to enter the industry.

For 2025, the Livestock Marketing Information Center calculated estimated cow-calf returns over cash costs at $900 per cow, ...

When people think of cattle ranching, they often picture rolling grasslands and lush fields, yet there are many impactful and sustainable cattle operations that thrive in the arid, rugged terrain of ...

U.S. cattle farmers have voiced their concern about the tariff war escalation between the U.S. and China that saw Beijing bringing in a huge tariff on American beef imports last month. The United ...

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 ...

Methane isn’t just an environmental buzzword—it is energy lost. Every puff of gas from a cow’s rumen represents feed energy that could have gone toward growth, milk or a calf. That simple truth is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single cow raised for meat produces between 154 and 264 pounds of methane per year, according to the U.S. Environmental ...