Drought

Today’s high culling numbers and ongoing drought across key cattle-producing regions underscore how important it will be for producers to find easy ways to hold down their feed costs going …

The USDA announced another phase of assistance will be forthcoming to commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2020 and 2021. Over 18,000 producers will soon be …

Billings, MT – Every week, the U.S. Drought Monitor releases an updated map of drought designations. Put together by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that it will indefinitely extend the deadline for producers to return the pre-filled applications for Phase One of the Emergency Relief Program …

The Mid-Year Cattle Inventory Report confirmed that the cumulative effects of drought that past two years have accelerated liquidation of the beef cattle herd. The July 1 inventory of all …

Global durum production is expected to rebound in 2022/23, but stocks are likely to remain tight this season. Total durum production in 2022/23 is expected to increase 10% to 33.9 …

The first half of 2022 is in the books.  The general direction of cattle and beef market forecasts for this year has not changed but annual forecasts have been modified …

Every farmer knows that weather is the least predictable “input” in our businesses. The drought of 2021 was one for the record books and reduced yields on all types of …

The FDA has found no safety issues with a drought-tolerant biotech variety of wheat known as HB4 developed by the Argentinian company Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp., the company announced Monday. …

Through the end of May, beef cow slaughter for the year-to-date was 15 percent higher year-over-year.  With nearly half the year over, it is very likely that the annual beef …