Bluetongue and Schmallenberg differ in spread, signs and risk—especially in Scotland's cooler climate. Here’s what livestock farms need to know.

Erosions and ulcers on the tongue, lips and in the mouth are the usual lesions found in the live calf. These lesions are similar to those found in yearling and adult animals affected with BVD virus.

That means there are a lot of trailers on the road filled with horses. From shows to rodeos to trail riding, our horses are ...

Kevin Good, Vice President of Industry Relations and Analysis with CattleFax, says the herd is still shrinking and so are slaughter levels and that will mean more record prices in 2025.

The last, change, open, high, low and previous close for each Live Cattle Futures Future contract.

The latest numbers from USDA out this week showed the U.S. cattle inventory dropped 2% year-over-year with 87.2 million head of cattle and calves on U.S. farms as of Jan. 1, 2024.

As a cattle feeder and commodity broker for 45 years, Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek in Sioux Center, Iowa, says he’s never seen a time like this, or even a close second, in the cattle market.

And old disease has become new again, with the growing emergence of positive cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle herds across the United States. “Tuberculosis is a ‘zoonotic’ disease, which ...