NEWS

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) announced that Beatty Canyon Ranch (BCR) in Kim, Colorado, is the national winner of the 2020 Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP).

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the beef checkoff, has announced the winners of its 2021 Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Awards, sponsored by Cargill.

It's no secret that much of the U.S., especially the western states, is experiencing severe drought conditions. Weather experts and many other professionals in the agricultural industry have seen this dry spell coming for some time, and have consequently urged producers to have a drought managment plan in place before it becomes necessary to enact one. 

The July USDA Cattle on Feed report shows July feedlot inventories of 11.29 million head, down 1.3% from last year and down 1.7% compared to 2019.

A long-term decline in red meat production, sparked by lower cattle numbers and higher grain prices, should set the pace for better calf prices heading into 2022, according to Randy Blach of CattleFax.