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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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4:33

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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4:36

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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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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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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2:27

Fenceline Battle

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/16

Legislators visit Maude land to get first-hand knowledge By Codi Vallery-Mills A continuance has been issued in the Charles and Heather Maude theft of federal property case in South Dakota. The new court date is July 22, 2025. The Maude case dates back to June 2024 when ranchers Charles and Heather Maude were notified they were being indicted for theft of federal property. For generations, the Maude family has ranched alongside grasslands held by the United States Government and managed by th...

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1:35

Finishing Strong

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/15

By Donnie Leddy, publisher This past week I attended seven production sales across the region. All the sales were tremendous with good demand for all the bulls and replacement females both commercial and purebred. It appears that cattle producers are searching for better genetics to add to their herd, they are not expanding but rather taking advantage of the weigh up market and adding fresh young genetics to their own operations. If you have been following along over the past few months...

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4:01

Guess Your Own COF: Strong fundamentals seen in March

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/14

By Matt Dabrowski It’s time to guess your own Cattle On Feed report. The next report will be released Thursday, April 17, on account of Good Friday. Last month’s report revealed a significant milestone: the lowest March feedlot inventory since 2017, highlighting our position in the contraction phase of the cattle cycle. March was rough for outside markets, and usually we would see spillover into cattle futures. But the fundamentals were too strong, and cattle bucked the trend. Live cattle fut...

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7:43

Ribbon cutting held for new Sustainable Beef plant

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/09

By George Lauby, The North Platte Bulletin High hopes for the future of the beef industry, for profitable ranchers and cattle feeders, for North Platte and Nebraska as a whole — all of that was in the air Monday, March 24 as the ribbon was cut on the Sustainable Beef plant. The ribbon was cut around 3:30 p.m. for the 0 million plant, which is expected to process its first beef in the latter half of May. Some 1,000 people got a look at the plant, now nearly complete after 30 cons...

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5:12

Black Fork Farms: A Legacy of Farming and Craft...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/09

By Kelly Brandlee Black Fork Farms has been in the Ommen family since 1889 when Gordon Ommen’s fourth great-grandfather, Poppy J, immigrated from Germany. The farm started as a traditional crop and cow-calf operation in Southwestern Minnesota, expanding into South Dakota in the 1950s. Today, Gordon and his son, Jacob, continue to operate the farm. However, the desire to diversify has added another entity to their operation: a distillery, producing premium bourbon and other spirits from native...

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2:03

Cattle Chat: Deciding to keep or cull cows

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/09

Managing a successful business often involves making a series of decisions with the end goal of providing a quality outcome at a profit. In the beef cattle business, one of those decisions is what to do when a cow doesn’t rebreed and is considered open, said the experts at the Kansas State University Beef Cattle Institute. “Every cow needs to have a calf every year or it is a loss to the operation, but even with those losses it is possible to recoup some value to the operation,” K...

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3:17

Growing and thriving in the face of challenges

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/03

By John Sachse Do you ever feel the weight of the world on your shoulders? Stress, burdens, and obstacles are no strangers to the men and women involved in production agriculture! In fact, they are a part of life. However, we have two options when faced with these hurdles. We can allow them to wear us down or we can rise above and choose to live a life full of resiliency that demands flexibility and adaptability. Resiliency is the ability to grow and thrive in the face of challeng...

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5:21

Livestock marketers spend time in Washington, D.C.

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/02

An outdated prohibition almost cost Heidi Nicholas her marriage. On paper, anyway. When the chance arose to buy Empire Livestock — a business with six livestock auction markets across New York — she seized it. Nicholas understood the markets’ vital role in the region and saw no one else stepping up to keep them running. But there was one major obstacle: her husband owned Nicholas Meat, a packing company in Pennsylvania. A Packers and Stockyards Act requirement, which predates modern li...

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1:52

Drying Out?

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/02

The Climate Prediction Center gives S.D. an equal chance of going further into drought or escaping it in April As of March 18, 2025, 100% of South Dakota is under drought conditions with 42% of the state under severe or extreme drought. During the same time last year, 11% of the state was experiencing drought with no areas under severe or extreme drought. Each week, federal government drought experts check several variables including precipitation, temperatures, soil moist...

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9:36

Blue Chip Herefords uses embryo transplants to grow herd

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/02

By Connie Sieh Groop Back in 2014, Blue Chip Herefords at Oxford, Neb., began with four heifers. Patience and hard work grew those numbers to 150 head and established a reputation for good keeper cows and bulls that last. When getting back into the business 10 years ago, Tracy McGee, 64, says their small numbers forced them to look for something different. “Since then we developed an extensive embryo transplant program to advance the herd to utilize top bulls and cows from...

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2:04

Cattle Chat: Adjusting your calving window

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/02

K-State beef cattle scientist explains shortening the calving window for beef cattle herds Timing is the key to a successful calving season, but beef cattle producers often wonder how they can narrow the calving window, or the timeframe in which cows will be giving birth. Speaking on a recent Cattle Chat podcast, K-State beef cattle scientist Bob Larson said a wide calving window poses two main challenges for producers: Aligning calving with forage seasons, because forage must be...

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2:27

The Blessing of Moisture

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/04/02

I am writing this week's column in the early morning hours of April 1st. The moisture I see coming down from the sky is a welcomed blessing. Local weathermen on the television say we can expect to receive this wintery mix of moisture until midday on Wednesday. That is exactly the forecast we were hoping for! We don’t need two or three feet of snow, but we do need moisture to sink in the ground as well as runoff in the creeks. It appears much of our region will be blessed with measurable...

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3:44

COF Report: Placements in the Feedyard 17.8% Lower

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/26

By Justin Slabaugh, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing The eagerly awaited Cattle on Feed Report, released last Friday, is likely to keep sentiment around the market strong, but it is worth taking a deeper dive into the data. For starters, the report revealed a 17.8% decrease in placements during the month of February compared to last year, with 1.554 million head of cattle placed. Given the current market conditions and the fact that the average trade guess was only calling for 14.4% lower placements,...

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4:36

Record cattle markets - How will current prices...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/26

By Codi Vallery-Mills Cattle prices continue to hold steady to higher across all classes this March. John Steeves, Head of Rural Business, North America, for Rabobank, says prices will likely remain elevated for several years. And the U.S. beef herd may be entering into a slow rebuild. There is optimism in the cattle industry, but a note of caution as well Steeves comments. “Every segment of the supply chain – from the ranch to feedyard to processor to retailer – is equally cautious regarding...

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