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Family ties, history connect rancher with troublesome wild mustangs

Nov 16, 2023
In Nevada, cattle and wild horses sometimes compete for food because they graze the same land. That creates challenges for some ranchers, but that doesn't mean they want the horses gone.
Rancher Will DeLong’s cows compete with wild horses for limited grass in the arid countryside. He’d like to see them “managed to the right numbers.”
Ashley Ahearn

For Western ranchers, harsh weather has meant brutal losses during prime calving season

May 4, 2023
Because calves are born wet they have to get dry, get a drink of milk, and warm up quickly. And the brutal weather has made that tough.
A herd moves slowly with their new calves in snowy conditions in April in Wallowa County, Oregon.
Courtesy of Angie Nash

"It’s going to cost us a pile": Livestock producers in West pinched by extreme winter weather

Apr 20, 2023
Livestock producers were hit so hard by winter weather that the federal government offered relief funding to producers in a few Western states. But some ranchers are still waiting for that option.
A truck pours feed into a trough for a herd of cattle at Snyder Livestock Company outside of Yerington, Nevada, on March 9.
Kaleb Roedel/Mountain West News Bureau

How might the beef industry diversify in the U.S.?

Mar 22, 2022
One rancher in the Pacific Northwest built her own supply chain to control how her cows get to market.
Cory Carman loads a saddle into a trailer at Carman Ranch in Wallowa, Oregon.
Ashley Ahearn

Montana inmates learn job and life skills while raising cattle on prison ranch

Feb 7, 2018
But food coming from a prison isn't necessarily a selling point.
An inmate attaches milkers to cows' teats.
Eve Abrams/Marketplace

Texas cattle ranchers, dependent on Mexican trade, keep an eye on NAFTA

May 3, 2017
Cattlemen's trade group is lobbying hard to make sure the White House knows what's at stake.
Coleman Locke, president of J.D. Hudgins Inc., and one of his Brahman bulls.
Andrew Schneider

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Today's cattle business is way more than cowboys

Dec 7, 2015
Successful cattle ranchers these days need a lot of market knowledge.

Tyson cuts antibiotics in chickens, are hogs next?

Apr 28, 2015
Eliminating routine antibiotic use is most challenging in cattle

Drought in the Midwest gives cattle farmers an edge

Jun 17, 2014
The Midwest drought helped Ken Lenox's cattle farming business increase profit.