DENVER — Beef producers should think globally when considering their future, a leading Washington insider told cattle producers at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference.

Jim Wiesemeyer, vice president, policy and trade issues, for Informa Economics Inc., told about 700 producers at the opening session that exports are “going to be your margins in the future. That […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour ruled July 17 livestock producers can utilize at least 2.5 million acres of noncritical Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land for haying and grazing, rejecting the calls for a ban of USDA’s Critical Feed Use (CFU) initiative.
The decision was based largely on a brief filed by the […]