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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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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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3:31

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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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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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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1:41

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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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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7:15

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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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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4:33

Balancing opportunity in the beef market with...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/23

By Kelly Brandlee “We’re trying to make a little bigger product,” says Jared Dick, who runs Shaggy Meadows Red Angus just outside Marion, South Dakota. “Feeders and packers are asking for more pounds, so we’re focused on keeping up with that trend while holding onto strong maternal traits.” For Dick, it’s about striking a balance. His family’s Red Angus herd is built to perform, but it’s also designed with purpose. Their focus on maternal qualities hasn’t changed—but they’re also responding t...

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Wagon Wheel Ranch to Receive Colorado Leopold...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/23

Wagon Wheel Ranch of Yuma has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award®. The 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. The Kenny and Jody Rogers family are cattle ranchers and owners of Wagon Wheel Ranch in Yuma and Washington counties. They will be presented with the award in June at the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association’s Annu...

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Bill Rishel to be honored with 2025 Saddle - Sirloin...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/22

William H. (Bill) Rishel of North Platte, Neb. has been named the 2025 inductee of the prestigious Saddle and Sirloin Portrait Gallery. Rishel will become the 380th member of this historic gallery and his portrait will be unveiled at an induction banquet to be held on Nov. 16 during the North American Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Ky. During research for his nomination Rishel explained, “Since 1966, the year I was privileged to be on the Penn State National Champion Livestock Jud...

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4:03

Trend of Lower Numbers of Cattle on Feed Continues

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/22

By Justin Slabaugh, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing The market now turns its focus to digesting the results of the April USDA Cattle on Feed report, following a month marked by intense volatility. The March report revealed a significant year-over-year shortfall in February placements. In the weeks that followed, the market experienced both new contract highs across the board and a steep correction — nearly /cwt in feeder cattle and approximately /cwt in live cattle — largely driven by negative headl...

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2:49

Drought map shows small improvements

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/16

The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) saw widespread improvement in drought-related conditions across areas of the South, Southeast, and Midwest, where a series of strong storms delivered heavy rainfall, damaging winds, and severe flooding. The multi-day storm event saturated soils leading to inundation of rivers, and severe flooding in low-lying areas from Arkansas to Ohio. Storm totals from the multi-day event ranged from 4 to 18+ inches, with the highest accumulations observed ...

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4:27

Williams Family Receives "FFA Family of the Year" Award

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/16

The Mary and late Myron Williams family, of Wall, received the South Dakota FFA Foundation’s 2025 “Family of the Year” award. The award honoring the family’s active involvement in the South Dakota FFA/Agriculture Education program was presented April 4th at the State FFA Convention in Brookings. The Williams family includes Mary and the late Myron Williams, their children and spouses, and grandchildren: Marty and Rhonda (Jaicee, Stran, Cooper Jo, Laketon and Madison), Monty and Bobbie (Pacey,...

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