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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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3:52

EPA Will Revise Waters Of The U.S. Rule

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/13

LENEXA, KAN. - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced today that EPA will work with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to deliver on President's Trump's promise to review the definition of "waters of the United States." The agencies will move quickly to ensure that a revised definition follows the law, reduces red-tape, cuts overall permitting costs, and lowers the cost of doing business in communities across the country while protecting the natio...

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2:02

Farmer Sentiment Rises

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/12

As Current Conditions Improve on U.S. Farms By Michael Langemeier and James Mintert, Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture Farmer sentiment rose again in February, with a big improvement in farmers’ appraisal of current conditions on their farms providing the impetus for stronger sentiment. Strengthening crop prices, positive returns in the livestock sector and expectations for receipt of disaster payments from USDA all combined to make the current situation on U.S. farms better. The shift...

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5:53

Brianna Duerre is the current National Shorthorn...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/12

By Kelly Brandlee Brianna Duerre’s journey to becoming the National Shorthorn Lassie Queen is a story of dedication and a lifelong connection to cattle. Growing up on her family’s sixth-generation farm south of Bristol, South Dakota, she was surrounded by a diverse operation that included a commercial cow/calf herd, Shorthorns, pigs, sheep, and crops. Helping on the farm wasn’t just a chore—it was a way of life. She and her siblings, Jessica, Nathan, and Allison, spent summers assisting with ...

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2:03

Market Strength!

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/12

If you follow along, you know how high the current cattle market is! From feeder cattle to grass cattle to bred cattle and weigh up cattle, the market is good, real good. We are seeing 700# and 800# cattle bringing over a pound! I saw where a group of open replacement heifers weighing 895 sell for 9.00! That’s ,765.55 a head with the load of cattle costing 5,933. Many of our commercial cattle producers will start calving in the next few weeks and the speculation for next fa...

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5:17

Producer Partnership Provides Protein for Food...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/05

by Paige Nelson What food staples are food pantries most desperate for? Hint: it isn’t ramen noodles. Meat and dairy products top the list. It’s pretty hard to create a nutritious meal from canned and shelf-stable boxed foods alone, which are the most frequently donated items. However, if you’ve ever tried to donate fresh-from-the-farm beef to a local food pantry, you quickly see why canned food drives are popular — they are easy. Donating beef to food pantries and school meal programs isn’t ...

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2:22

Greater Omaha Packing launches Hereford verification...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/05

Greater Omaha Packing in Nebraska is proud to announce the launch of a new Hereford Affidavit, designed to expand opportunities for producers and ensure that Hereford-influenced fat cattle can qualify for program premiums. This initiative aims to reward the genetic merit of Hereford-crossed cattle, increasing value at every level of the supply chain. For decades, increased pigmentation within the Hereford breed has made it more challenging for Hereford-crossed cattle to meet the traditional 5...

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5:26

Horter's: From Restoration to a Thriving Ag Supply...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/05

By Kelly Brandlee For John and Jaclyn Horter, running a business while managing their fifth-generation farm near Bristol, S.D., has been a journey of growth, adaptation, and commitment to serving the agricultural community. John and Jaclyn farm alongside John’s parents, raising cattle, corn, soybeans, small grains, and alfalfa. Their children, Dane (14) and Raegan (10), represent the sixth generation on the farm. Approximately 11 years ago, in addition to farming, the Horters began painting a...

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3:54

Six tips for helping deliver a calf

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/03/05

By Tony Hawkins, DVM, Valley Vet Supply Technical Service Veterinarian During calving season everyone always hopes for the best but rightly should plan for when things go awry. This includes knowing how to pull a calf and having the right equipment on hand. If you need to deliver a calf, the first thing you need to do is attach the OB calving chains. If you only put one loop around each leg, there is a high risk of breaking a calf’s leg. To minimize this risk, put the first loop above t...

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1:48

Wyoming Delegation seeks resolution to stalemate in...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/26

U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Senator Cynthia Lummis along with U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman, all R-Wyo., reintroduced legislation Feb, 24 that would resolve the management status of thousands of acres of federal public lands in seven counties in Wyoming. The bill, which passed the U.S. Senate in December 2024, is the direct result of a collaborative process started under the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI). The WPLI was created by the Wyoming County Commissioners Association ...

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4:28

Ask better questions of your lender

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/26

Here are four banker-approved tips By Codi Vallery-Mills If you have sold cattle in the last 8 months you have likely realized profit on those animals. The cattle market is at historical highs, and that is providing better financial outcomes for cattle ranchers today. Still, higher input costs are hanging in there and the need for lending money isn’t going away. The Cattle Business Weekly spoke with Josh Davis of Farm Credit Mid-America, where he is vice president of Food and Agribusiness, ab...

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4:36

Sale Day Dishes with Jack Sieben

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/26

Jack Sieben has become a familiar face serving up many of South Dakota’s bull sale meals. By Codi Vallery-Mills In rural farm and rancher country a lot can pass as a couple’s date night option including attending a bull sale. And why not, when the food you get there is better than anything you’re likely to cook at home that day? There are often homemade sweets, small batch brews, butter crusted potatoes, fresh made rolls, church salads galore… and those are just the sides. Once the main prote...

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2:37

Revamped Steers for State will help SDSU Rodeo Team

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/26

By Codi Vallery-Mills If you are a South Dakota State University college sports fan you may want to keep track of the SDSU rodeo team these next two months. There are 16 rodeo athletes on the 49-member team ranking in the top standings of their respective events. SDSU rodeo coach Ron Skovly says the team has four rodeos left to show their determination to place well and he expects several from the team will be headed to the College National Finals Rodeo this June. The team is made up o...

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3:38

New Fed Cattle Grid for Red Angus

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/26

The Red Angus Association of America hosted a reception on Thursday, Feb. 6, following the conclusion of the NCBA Trade Show at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. More than 50 attendees gathered to learn about an innovative fed cattle grid pricing system that offers competitive premiums for upper two-thirds Choice Angus carcasses. Tom Brink, RAAA CEO, shared that Sustainable Beef LLC, a new beef processing plant slated to open in April 2025 in North Platte, Nebraska, will implemen...

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4:39

Cattlemen discuss the art of selecting traits for...

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/26

By Briley Richard Sometimes being a cattleman feels like walking up to a buffet with endless options. Where do I start? Should I focus on the big picture or the details? How do I focus on just one thing? Through educational sessions sponsored by the Colorado Angus Association at the 2025 National Western Stock Show, industry experts and boots-on-the-ground cattlemen discussed the value of balancing trait selection to achieve forward progress. The session kicked off with a presentation by Kara...

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2:42

A Strong Market

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/25

Over the past six weeks, CBW representatives have attended a number of bull sales around the region. If you have followed the reports in the paper, you have noticed we have record prices being paid for the bulls. We have had several sales averaging over ,000 per head! While that may seem like a big number, it follows along with the “Ol’ Rule of Thumb” that it takes five feeder cattle or three fed cattle to purchase a new herd bull. Personally, I think we are at a new price ...

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1:46

United States Cattle on Feed Down 1 Percent

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/21

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.7 million head on February 1, 2025. The inventory was 1 percent below February 1, 2024. Placements in feedlots during January totaled 1.82 million head, 2 percent above 2024. Net placements were 1.76 million head. During January, placements of cattle and calves weighing less than 600 pounds were 365,000 head, 600-699 pounds were 395,000 head, 700-799 pounds were ...

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1:53

Brooke Rollins takes helm of USDA

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/19

Brooke Rollins, who served as chief for domestic policy during Trump’s first administration, was confirmed overwhelmingly by the Senate in a 72-28 vote as the next Secretary of Agriculture. A lawyer from Texas, Rollins takes over as the head of USDA amid tariff talks, mass layoffs for federal employees and immigration issues that could impact workforce availability for ag operations. Rollins was sworn in as the 33rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme ...

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Newly inducted into the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/19

The Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame was established to recognize visionary men and women who have made lasting contributions to cattle feeding industry. Each year, cattle feeders from across the nation vote for two nominees to join this distinguished list of honorees. Several others in the industry are also honored for their leadership and service. Inducted into this year’s Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame was Dan May and Joe Morgan. Dan May is from 4M Feeders, Herd Co and Magnum Feedyard in Stratton,...

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1:44

How do I get My Cows to Eat Poor Quality Hay?

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/19

By Brian Freking, OSU Cooperative Extension To encourage cows to eat low-quality hay, you can consider a few strategies: Supplementation: Providing supplemental feeds, especially those rich in protein, can make low-quality hays more digestible and increase passage rate. For example, enhancing low protein hays with with a high protein supplement can provide essential nutrients that might be lacking in the hay. Mix with Better Quality Forage: Mixing low-quality hay with better qual...

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5:34

Lennox, S.D. company recycles plastic into fenceposts

The Cattle Business Weekly ·

2025/02/19

Study long-lasting product resists rotting By Connie Sieh Groop Many farmers are frustrated with all of the plastic that clutters their farmyards. Tarps from silage piles, plastic containers, net wrap, totes, and drums pile up. It is estimated that 12.5 million tons of agricultural plastic are used annually in the United States. A company near Lennox, SD, transforms the plastic generated on farms and from other sources into something that every farm needs—4-inch and 6-inch fence posts....

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