Insights and Stories on Cattle

Marfrig to buy control of U.S.-based National Beef

Apr. 9, 2018 at 4:41 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s Marfrig Global Foods said Monday it would buy control of Kansas City-based National Beef Packing for US$969 million, in a deal that would make it the world’s No. 2 beef processor. Marfrig also said it was seeking to sell an existing U.S. unit, Keystone […]

Eye worm, known only in cattle, found in U.S. woman’s eye

Feb. 13, 2018 at 9:11 am CST

By Gina Cherelus

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Feb. 12, 2018 at 8:18 pm CST

By Staff

Prairie feed barley softens as packers bid up cattle

Jan. 16, 2018 at 6:48 pm CST

By Dave Sims

Seedstock cattle operation aims for balance

Jan. 12, 2018 at 3:16 pm CST

By Debbie Furber

Food riots grip western Venezuela

Jan. 12, 2018 at 12:17 am CST

San Cristobal/Barinas, Venezuela | Reuters — Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection centre and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country. An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, […]

By Anggy Polanco Francisco Aguilar

Dos and don’ts when treating cattle in cold weather

Oct. 27, 2017 at 8:27 am CDT

Inclement weather creates challenges when processing cattle, whether preg-checking, vaccinating or weaning in the fall, or giving cows pre-calving vaccinations, or delousing treatments in midwinter. Dr. Eric Laporte of Nagel and Company Veterinary Services, Cow-Calf Health Management Solutions in Crossfield, Alta., says one of the main challenges in cold weather […]

By — Heather Smith Thomas

From sugar mills to hog farms, U.S. agriculture braces for Irma

Sep. 7, 2017 at 11:46 am CDT

Chicago/New York | Reuters — Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the south and southeastern parts of the U.S. on Wednesday. Florida sugar and citrus processors rushed to secure rail cars and equipment that could be crushed, blocked […]

By P.J. Huffstutter Renita D. Young

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

Aug. 29, 2017 at 6:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — South Texas ranchers are scrambling to relocate cattle from massive flooding spawned by Tropical Storm Harvey, with many hauling livestock up to the north of the state while others rush to move the animals to higher ground nearby. About 1.2 million cattle are located in a […]

By Karl Plume Theopolis Waters

Cattle disease outbreak under control: New Zealand ministry

Jul. 28, 2017 at 12:01 pm CDT

Wellington / Reuters – New Zealand’s first outbreak of a serious bacterial cattle disease was well under control, the Primary Industries ministry said on Friday, with stock movement restrictions in place and testing continuing. News of the discovery of mycoplasma bovis earlier this week on a single farm in the […]

By Ana Nicolaci da Costa