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The Cattle Business Weekly

The Cattle Business Weekly newspaper

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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2:58

Simple changes make the difference in cooling off cattle

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/06/04

Cattle incapable of relieving themselves of high temperatures experience heat stress. Humans alleviate overheating through sweating, but Kansas State University beef extension veterinarian A.J. Tarpoff said cattle do not have that option. “Heat stress coping behaviors is what we see when cattle are adapting to warmer temperatures,” he said. “Whenever we get hot, we sweat to maintain homeostasis. For livestock species, and especially cattle, that capability gets overwhelmed.” Tarpoff added: “T...

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2:53

Record High Cattle Prices

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/06/03

By Stephen R. Koontz, Ph.D. Colorado State University The cattle markets start the summer moving into record-high price territory. The 5-market weighted average cash fed cattle price pushed past 5/cwt while prices in the southern plains were around 0. Live cattle futures contract prices are at a discount to cash and have struggled to break 5. By region, depending on whether the cash market in question is in a deficit or surplus of supply, cash feeder cattle prices for 7-8 weight cattle are ab...

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3:29

Is beef the answer to Mexico's obesity problem?

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/06/03

South Dakota trade mission stirs interest in Beef Logic program By Codi Vallery-Mills Mexico has watched its childhood obesity rate steadily increase in the past 20 years. So, when South Dakota rancher Todd Mortenson brought up Beef Logic on a recent trade mission trip to Mexico, he had people’s attention. Mortenson serves on the board of Beef Logic, which facilitates Build Your Base with Beef – a nutritional program for athletes and their families. “They face the same problems that we do in ...

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1:37

Summertime!

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/28

By Donnie Leddy, publisher The unofficial start of Summer is recognized on Memorial Day weekend. Although the official start is a few weeks away, school is out, most crops have been planted, brandings are wrapping up, cattle are out to pasture, and this is when many Americans start the “Backyard Grilling Season.” It is the time of the year when more cooking is done outdoors than indoors. It sure seems that more and more people are using pellet grills and flat iron grills to prepare deli...

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2:10

Lowest number of May cattle on feed since 2017

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/27

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.4 million head on May 1, 2025 according to the recent USDA Cattle on Feed Report. The inventory was 2 percent below May 1, 2024. It is the lowest number of cattle on feed on May 1 since 2017, which was 10.996 million head. Placements in feedlots during April totaled 1.61 million head, 3 percent below 2024. Net placements were 1.56 million head. During April, plac...

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2:43

Cost of the All-American BBQ

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/27

By Codi Vallery-Mills Did you host a BBQ over the Memorial Weekend? If you did, it likely cost you around 3 according to Rabobank. The financial institution created a BBQ Index that gives insight into the cost of the average American BBQ. Using its rational and methodology for a group of 10 adults eating cheeseburgers, grilled chicken sandwiches, chips, ice cream, and drinking beer and soda, it says just over 0 will be the national average. What’s the costliest item on that BBQ plate? It’s th...

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3:31

Ag Policy Updates

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/21

From CBW News Desk Secretary Rollins Announces Farmers First: Small Family Farms Policy Agenda After nearly 100 days of traveling the nation and visiting directly with hundreds of farmers across America, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins released the first set of policy proposals under her newly launched Make Agriculture Great Again Initiative while visiting farmers in Nebraska. These initial proposals are a comprehensive set of policy solutions aimed at improving the viability ...

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4:18

Managing Cattle Finishing at Heavier Weights

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/21

By Alfredo DiCostanzo, Nebraska Extension Educator It is not a surprise to anyone that carcass weights are increasing. Fewer feeder cattle from the U.S. supply and the U.S.-Mexican border closed to feeder cattle imported from Mexico because of screwworm detection in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas are contributing to a shortage of feeders. Other factors such as the economic incentive to add pounds to the existing feedyard inventory are contributing to heavier finishing weigh...

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3:27

Guess your own Cattle On Feed report: May 2025

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/19

By Matt Dabrowski It’s time to guess your own Cattle On Feed report. The next report will be released Friday, May 23. Cattle ultimately shook off the extreme volatility in outside markets to push further into record territory in April. When all was said and done, live cattle futures rose 3.8% and feeder cattle 2.1%, outpacing both the commodities index (-0.8%) and stocks, which ended up flat on the month. Near-term supplies remain tight; I estimate about in backwardation in live cattle futur...

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5:12

Sickler's seedstock ranch sells cattle embryos as a...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/14

By Paige Nelson, CBW As a high schooler, Klint Sickler earned his lunch money by designing websites for ranchers. That led him to pursue a college degree in computer science. But eventually, being a ranch kid at heart, he realized he couldn’t spend his life staring at ones and zeros, so partway through college, he changed directions. That background in coding, though, continues to pay off today. He describes his coding skills as “still halfway dangerous at this point!” Klint’s grandfath...

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Kimball Livestock leads with big strings and record...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/14

Tuesday, May 6 was a day defined by big strings and strong prices for 8-weight cattle, with 26 sales of 100 head or more across the country. Kimball Livestock (Kimball, S.D.) led the action, posting the largest sale of the day and recording 12 separate strings of 100 head or more, highlighting its continued leadership in volume feeder cattle trade. The largest string sold May 6 came from Kimball: 399 head averaging 889 lbs at 6.00. This draft ranked as the 5th highest price paid for 8-weight ...

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3:09

State Conspiracies Don't Change Federal Policies

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/13

Editorial by Eric Jennings, SDCA Past President It’s puzzling how much attention the new traceability rule that requires electronic identification (EID) tags is garnering now that it has been fully implemented. I am puzzled because the time for attention would have been during the comment period when the rule was proposed. To recap, disease traceability rules have been in place since 2013, and the current version of the rule, updating the type of tag required, was proposed in January o...

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4:38

Secretary Rollins Suspends Live Animal Imports...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/12

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through U.S. ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, effective immediately. NWS has been recently detected in remote farms with minimal cattle movement as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, about 700 miles away from the U.S. border. The United States and Mexico continue efforts to interdi...

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8:05

Celebrating farm moms

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/09

Read about two South Dakota women who are busy raising their farm families By Lura Roti, SD Farmers Union This upcoming weekend mothers, grandmothers, aunts and special ladies will be celebrated during Mother’s Day. As we reflect on the women who raised us, the South Dakota Farmers Union would like to celebrate the many women who support the state’s No. 1 industry – farm and ranch moms! Read on to learn about Shelly Kenzy of Gregory, S.D. and Darcie Lee of De Smet , S.D. She...

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6:06

Livestock Leaders Convene

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/07

Setting aside differences to help move industry forward Forty leaders from across the livestock industry convened at the Common Ground Summit April 21-23 at Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel. Their shared mission: to safeguard rural communities, ensure America’s food independence and preserve a way of life central to the nation’s agricultural heritage. A Watershed Moment for American Agriculture Years of bridge-building culminated in this pivotal event, marking what participants described as a brea...

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5:47

Estrous synchronization with natural service offers...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/05/01

Cattle producers often associate estrous synchronization with artificial insemination (AI). Many do not associate the practices and economic benefits of synchronization with natural service breeding programs. “There are many production and economic advantages to utilizing synchronization in the cowherd,” says Lisa Pederson, North Dakota State University Extension livestock specialist at the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center. “Mainly, it creates a more uniform calf crop.” Synchroniz...

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3:35

Consumers are seeking more protein in 2025

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/30

People are eating more protein than ever before, with 61% of Americans increasing their protein intake in 2024 versus just 48% who did so in 2019. These are only a few of the major findings from Cargill’s 2025 Protein Profile, an annual trends report that provides a comprehensive look at trends in protein consumption for the year ahead. This year’s report also found that animal proteins like beef, chicken and eggs are the preferred protein sources for most consumers due to their taste, nutrit...

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Stomprud Angus Ranch receives South Dakota Leopold...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/30

Stomprud Angus Ranch of Mud Butte has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 South Dakota Leopold Conservation Award®. The ,000 award honors ranchers, farmers, and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat on working land. Sand County Foundation and national sponsor American Farmland Trust present Leopold Conservation Awards to private landowners in 28 states. In South Dakota, the award is presented with the South Dak...

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Diamond Bar Ranch honored with Nebraska Leopold...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/30

Diamond Bar Ranch is the recipient of the 2025 Nebraska 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. Robert and Susanne Jones raise beef cattle and own the 22,000-acre Diamond Bar Ranch in Logan County. The Joneses will be presented with ,000 and a crystal award later this year. Sand County Foundation and national sponsor Americ...

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4:35

U.S. Government Drops Charges Against Maude Family

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/30

By Codi Vallery-Mills Today, ranchers Charles and Heather Maude of South Dakota joined U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins in Washington, D.C. during her announcement that the U.S. Government was dropping criminal charges against the couple. Charles and Heather had been federally indicted over a fenceline boundary dispute with the U.S. Forest Service in the spring of 2024 when the agency claimed the Maudes had stolen 25 acres of land from the U.S. Government for their own perso...

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