LivestockVirginia's governor has eased hay-hauling limits and USDA fast-tracked disaster status for four Florida counties as drought tightens feed supplies across the US Southeast.
LivestockJuly population data show Scottish prime cattle aged 12 to 30 months up 1.8% on a year earlier, which Quality Meat Scotland calls the most stable supply position in several years.
LivestockThe liquidator is reclaiming payments made to 96 farmers, feed companies, quarantine properties and the Irish broker Purcell before the May 2022 Ocean Ute shipment to China; a handful of farmers are settling at a discount.
LivestockMLA's September projections put 2026 slaughter at 9.6 million head, carcase weights at 313 kg and exports near 2.4 million tonnes, with the herd easing more slowly than forecast from 30.8 million head; live exports are down 25 percent.
LivestockUSDA and the Texas Animal Health Commission released another New World screwworm zone on 21 September; the Santa Teresa port reopens to Mexican cattle on 24 September.
LivestockGillian Martin told the Scottish Parliament's climate committee that a shortfall in transport emissions savings would force a rethink of how statutory targets are met, reviving a debate the 2026-2040 climate plan had closed.
Ronnie Green, chancellor emeritus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, told the Beef Improvement Federation in Boise that China has grown public agricultural R&D nearly nine-fold since 2000 while US spending stayed flat, that under US$5 billion of USDA's US$230 billion budget funds research, and t
A Cross Timbers study found cattle and goats eat different plants through the year, so running both on the same Texas rangeland uses more of the forage, applies browsing pressure to invasive brush and adds resilience in drought.
Governor Abigail Spanberger has declared a state of emergency granting over-width waivers for hay transport, after drought cut Virginia's hay yields by 35 percent and left the state short by about 500,000 tons going into winter.
CropsTexas crop reports describe a season split in two, with dryland cotton and sorghum failing under heat above 100F in the High and Rolling Plains while rice growers on the coast lost yield to cloud and rain, and ranchers everywhere feeding hay early.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and San Diego County public health built a tracking tool that combines confirmed detections, fly-friendly environmental conditions and news reports to estimate New World screwworm risk for every US county; access is limited to officials for now,
October feeder cattle futures gained $12.35 to $332.50 per hundredweight and October live cattle rose $6.73 to $219.68 in the week of 7 September, a rebound that university economists put down to correction after weeks of selling rather than to any new bullish news.
LivestockThe BC Cattlemen's Association and Alberta Beef Producers have extended the Access to Feed Program across the provincial border so that BC producers short of forage after fire and drought can be matched with Alberta feed, pasture or feedlot space.
