Throughout most of 2025, Midwest cattle farmers have seen record highs in terms of productivity on their farms. However, recent market developments have cast a shadow on these successes, with some ...

Decker’s Livestock Inc. has been located at 105 S. Hamilton St. in Milford for the bulk of its 80 years. Bill Decker, operator of Decker’s Livestock in Milford, has been in the auction business more ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

A cattle marketing expert confronts misinformation and offers a path toward clarity and profitability through genuine ...

Managing a successful business often involves making a series of decisions with the end goal of providing a quality outcome at a profit. In the beef cattle business, one of those decisions is what to ...

Cattle futures on Monday were sharply lower with feeders slipping $4 to $5.50 per hundredweight and fats were mostly $1.50 to $2.90 per hundredweight. Last week fat cattle traded at $228 to $230 per ...

Livestock shipments and railroads had a love-hate relationship that kindled in the 1850s, blossomed after the Civil War, matured with the growth of big-city stockyards and giant meat-processing plants ...

Tim Daly, of Bankston, Iowa, checks on his beef steer calves grazing in pastures. (Dave Kettering/Dubuque Telegraph Herald) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread.