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These Wyoming steakhouses serve locally-raised beef from nearby pastures, where you can often see the cattle that became your ...

Mai Huy Tan, who founded and later sold the popular Duc Viet sausage brand, has proposed a $5 billion circular economy complex in Quang Ninh province, northern Vietnam.

Virtually all calf starter grain formulations in the U.S. currently lean on soybean meal as their main protein source. But ...

In the spring of each year, ranchers gather and brand their herds’ new recruits, continuing a tradition as old as the open ...

Springtime is often when calves get their first vaccinations. It’s also their first exposure to high endotoxin loads.

The season two premiere episode of Bravo's "The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys" shows the McBee brothers battling once again, but this time, to save the farm from potential financial ruin.

Nebraska Senators did not vote a final time on the bill that would have changed the Nebraska brand law. Dawson County Sen. Teresa Ibach carried the bill that morphed from week to week throughout ...

Nick Jorgensen breaks down how genomics testing helps cattle producers select better heifers, manage risk, reduce bull failures and sort feeders before they leave the ranch.

A former Mandan man was rearrested over the weekend on a five-year-old warrant in a 2018 case accusing him of stealing more ...

The Certified Angus Beef program was the first of its kind, and when Wyoming rancher Jack Schmidt first heard the idea over a ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — Every year at the beginning of June, a group of our friends from Bismarck and Dickinson load up and come to the ranch to help us brand our calves.