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The Cattle Business Weekly

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For cattlemen, by cattlemen is this podcast bringing you the latest in cattle industry headlines straight from the news desk of The Cattle Business Weekly in South Dakota. It"s a dose of what"s happening in markets, on the ranch and in Washington, D.C. It"s news about everything that impacts a cattle operation"s bottomline (aka profit). Listen to us in the feed truck, on the way to a cattle sale or on the porch with a beer! We promise you won"t go away without having learned something.

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6:22

Tax Planning for Cow/Calf Operations: Don't Let...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/26

Tina Barrett Executive Director of Nebraska Farm Business Inc. The past several years have been profitable for cattle producers. Cow/calf operations are amid a period of unprecedented high incomes—something that crop farmers experienced back in 2012 and again in 2022. Strong income years are a blessing, but they also bring challenges: larger tax bills, pressure to spend on prepaid expenses, and the temptation to push income forward or load up on depreciable purchases. There are some les...

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3:50

Tyson to Shutter Nebraska Beef Plant

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/26

Cindy Gonzalez Nebraska Examiner In a blow to the local economy of Lexington, Neb., Tyson Foods announced that it is closing the town’s longtime Tyson beef plant that employed about 3,200 people. The Arkansas-based Tyson said in a statement that changes were designed to “right-size” its beef business and position it for long-term success. The Lexington plant is to close on or around Jan. 20. The statement did not elaborate on why the plant in the town of about 11,500 people was ta...

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2:19

Cold and Snowy Winter Teeing Up for the Northern Plains

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/25

Weather and markets are the two things agriculture revolves around. While he can’t speak to what is happening in the cattle markets, Colorado meteorologist Brian Bledsoe, who also happens to be a rancher, can speak to a weather outlook for the region this winter and coming spring. Presenting at the recent Range Beef Cow Symposium in Cheyenne, Wyo. Bledsoe walked those in attendance through the past 6 months of weather and what could lie ahead. Bledsoe says a lot of the seasonal forecast start...

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1:48

Market Mayhem

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/25

Over the last several weeks, we have seen a lot of mayhem in our cattle market. The recent announcement that Tyson Foods will be closing the processing plant in Lexington, Neb., sent traders into a frenzy, pushing the futures market down, down, and further down. Adding fuel to the fire, on Nov. 13, our government lifted the 40 percent tariff on Brazilian beef. This goes to show how volatile our current market is. We have reached new record cattle prices, and any slight negative ne...

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6:06

Ag-Related News Out of Washington

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/19

The largest news rolling out of Washington, D.C. last week was the reopening of the U.S. Government on Nov. 13 after a 43-day shutdown. The compromise reached in Congress brought a year of funding to nearly all of USDA – ensuring farm programs and USDA staff will be operating in case of another shutdown in 2026. It will also help keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program available in the new year. In addition to the government reopening, there has been a lot of ag...

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3:09

U.S. Sits Third in Global Beef Exports

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/18

U.S. beef is selling at near record prices but is likely capped without access to China, which is the No. 1 importer of beef globally, reports Tyler Cozzens of the Livestock Marketing Information Center. Speaking at the Range Beef Cow Symposium in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Nov. 10, Cozzens gave an overview of the global beef market. U.S. beef trade with China is down 37 percent this year because of geopolitical conditions and a slowing economy there. Japan and South Korea have picked up some of that...

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2:17

Guess the Cattle on Feed Report

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/17

It’s time to guess your own Cattle On Feed report. The next report, the first after the government shutdown, will be released Friday, November 21. The futures market topped in October. Feeder cattle futures hit a price of 0 before ending the month down 6.1%. Live cattle futures hit 3 at the peak and dropped, but still finished the month up 2.0%. This beat the broad commodities index (up 1.0%) but trailed stocks (up 2.3%). Auction markets followed futures and ended up flat to lower depending o...

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4:13

Bidding on Herself

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/14

At 17, Amber Haugland enrolled in auctioneering school. She had grown up hearing her father’s chant in the background as the entire family worked sales. Twenty-five years later, she has auctioned cattle, farm equipment, land, firearms and estates, and she absolutely loves it. “I love all of that because it really is true, the people make everything. It’s just been such a blessing to me and my family, the people we get to meet,” she smiles. Haugland’s Action Auction i...

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2:21

World Hereford Tour Visits Nebraska, Colorado, Montana

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/12

The 2025 World Hereford Conference convened in Kansas City, Mo., for an unforgettable unification of the Hereford breed. This global event brought together Hereford enthusiasts, breeders and industry leaders from across the world for networking, learning and sharing insights on the future of the Hereford breed Oct. 16–29. Montana is home to plenty of Hereford history and current-day breed leaders. The state is also commonly regarded as the fountainhead of Line 1 Hereford cattle, founded in 19...

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3:43

Don't Let Winter's Cold Open the Door to BRD

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/12

Winter weather isn’t just tough on producers — it’s tough on cattle, too. “There are reasons why we see more BRD challenges in cold and damp conditions,” said Nathan Meyer, DVM, Ph.D., Boehringer Ingelheim. “It really comes down to stress. When animals are stressed, they’re less able to fight off infections as effectively as they would under more ideal conditions.” Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) remains the costliest disease impacting U.S. beef cattle.1 The brisk winter months...

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4:21

Buying ranch equipment: Is it needed or just nice to...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/05

For a cow-calf enterprise, the second- or third-largest expense after grazed and harvested feed is often overhead expenses related to labor and equipment. In ranching, an overhead expense is one that doesn’t change much based on the number of cows that are in production. For example, the pickup, tractor, ATV, trailer, feeding equipment and working facilities used to care for 150 cows would also likely be adequate to care for 500 cows. On a cost-per-cow-unit basis, spreading...

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11:12

Higher Profits

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/05

Close proximity to a good paved road can be a mixed blessing. Just ask Merna, Neb. cattleman Kyle Geiser, whose operation straddles Nebraska Highway 92. Easy access to the thoroughfare is advantageous when shipping cattle, receiving commodity feedstuffs or fetching machinery parts from town. But living next to the highway becomes bothersome when it’s necessary to move cattle from one side to the other. The Geiser family coped with that for years. For example, when implementing protocols for s...

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1:58

In the Cattle Markets: Reflecting on the Bigger Picture

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/05

After a couple of wild weeks in cattle markets, let’s take a step back to review the bigger picture. The supply side remains tight with limited opportunities to expand in the short run. Cull cows from the dairy sector may offset some of the reduction beef cull cows on tighter dairy margins. However, this offset is partial. Additionally, dressed weight increases may be topping out. In September, year-over-year increases in cattle dressed weights ranged from 1.5-2.1 percent. In contrast, dresse...

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4:01

Late Fall and Winter Weather Outlook for Nebraska Region

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/05

The Nebraska region is currently in a weak La Nina and that is expected to stick around for the winter. The area is also still in a negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The analogs are based largely on this combination, though other factors and teleconnections may play an even bigger role for our sensible weather this coming winter. Siberian snow cover in the fall can have a big impact on the strength of the polar vortex, as one example. Warm November Favored It has ...

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4:20

Tiny Wyoming School Builds Million Dollar Livestock...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/11/05

Remember learning how to give an injection by poking a banana with a syringe filled with red dye, then peeling back the skin and observing if you did it right? It’s a basic classroom attempt toward “hands-on” learning. Now imagine going from poking a banana to giving dewormer shots to pigs all in the same class hour? Thanks to the Little Snake River Valley school’s brand-new [post_excerpt].7 million livestock center and teaching lab, that is exactly how Brett Miller, Little Snake River ...

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4:10

Maddocks to Receive ND Leopold Conservation Award

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/10/29

The Brian and Vicki Maddock family has been selected as the recipients of the 2025 North Dakota Leopold Conservation Award. The award honors farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health, water quality and wildlife habitat on working land. They will be presented with the ,000 award in December. Sand County Foundation and national sponsor American Farmland Trust present Leopold Conservation Awards to private landowners in 28 states. In Nort...

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2:14

Temple Grandin Portrait Joins Smithsonian Gallery

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/10/29

Coleman Cornelius Colorado State University Communications Temple Grandin, a world-renowned University Distinguished Professor in Colorado State University’s Department of Animal Sciences, is the subject of a newly revealed painting that will hang in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. Its National Portrait Gallery highlights Americans of remarkable character and ...

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4:28

Protecting Cattle Owners Against Loss and Theft

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/10/29

North Dakota’s brand inspectors are busy this time of year Connie Sieh Groop Cattle Business Weekly As cattle move from summer pastures, it’s crunch time for the North Dakota brand inspectors. “We’re pretty busy from now until the end of January,” Corby Ward with the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association says. “As the chief brand inspector for North Dakota, I oversee the brand inspection program across the state. I’m a licensed law enforcement officer in North Dakota. We enforce the laws ...

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2:40

October Theory

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/10/29

By Codi Vallery-Mills It’s here. The end of October is upon us, and that means as of today, we have 64 days left of the year 2025. Recently, the concept of October Theory hit my radar in an article I read online. Psychologists note that the month of October is more motivating to some people than January is. As people realize the year-end is nearing, they begin to make goals so they can finish the year strong. In 2023, the October Theory was a large trend on TikTok. Shorter deadlines (months v...

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3:03

Secretary Rollins Announces Plan for American...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/10/22

(Washington, D.C., October 22, 2025) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced a suite of actions to strengthen the American beef industry, reinforcing and prioritizing the American rancher’s critical role in the national security of the United States. Since 2017, the United States has lost over 17% of family f...

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