California’s largest cattle-raising operation, Harris Ranch Beef Holding Company, is being sold to the Central Valley Meat Holding Company. While the financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed,…
NCBA CEO Kendal Frazier Announces Plans for Retirement
…because of his service to cattlemen and cattlewomen.” Kendal Frazier When NCA merged with the National Livestock and Meat Board in 1996, Frazier was a member of the team who…
New California Cattle Council Set to Take Shape
…and Agriculture. “We need to have more resources to tell our story effectively, particularly on issues, I’ll call them live cattle issues,” said Dave Daley, Chair of the Cattle Council…
USDA Update on Farm Bill Implementation Progress
…(MPP-Dairy): On March 22, 2019, Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that dairy producers who elected to participate in the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy Cattle Program in 2018 can now retroactively participate…
The Basque Sheepherders in the West
Basque sheepherder on horse back herding large flock of sheep on mountain side with yellow changing Aspen trees on fall afternoon Do you remember sheepherder wagons? I recall seeing them…
Dairy Producers Previously Enrolled in the Livestock Gross Margin Program Now Eligible for 2018 Margin Protection Program
Retroactive Enrollment Begins March 25 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that dairy producers who elected to participate in the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy Cattle Program (LGM-Dairy) now…
Study Clarifies U.S. Beef’s Resource Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
…energy (for example, fuel) use in cattle production accounted for less than 1 percent of the total consumed nationally. Cattle only consumed 2.6 pounds of grain per pound of beef…
Annual Survey Finds 80% of Producers Believe Beef Checkoff Drives Beef Demand
…the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. To ensure unbiased results, the checkoff hires a research firm without any input from its contractors, including NCBA. In January 2019, Luce Research conducted this independent…
Study Reveals Pigs Can Transmit FMD Prior to Signs of Sickness
…protect pigs, cattle, sheep and industries from FMD. The study describing this work can be found here. The Agricultural Research Service is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific in-house research…
Keeping the Carbon Footprint of Livestock in Perspective
…animal agriculture will always talk about cows and beef cattle and sheep and swine and so on, but they would never raise issues of companion animals such as horses,” said…
California Producers Win Prestigious Conservation Award
…resources. Vaughn, who manages a family cattle operation, partners with the Towaliga Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and NRCS to implement innovative natural resource conservation practices and educational programs….
California Cattle Council Vote Approaches
…Beef Council, as it would consider all aspects of cattle production. Several ag organizations supported the bill to advance the potential for a California Cattle Council, including the California Cattlemen’s…
Cattlemen React to Senate Passage of Public Lands Package
…to get back to the business of solving problems, rather than creating new ones. We look forward to working with them to do just that. “Cattle producers who read the…
E.M. Tharp and World Ag Expo® “We Believe in Growing” Scholarship Winners Announced
…While she has shown goats and hogs, sheep have been her specialty and where she has found the most success. In 2018, she was the Tulare County Fair Reserve Sheep…