Record beef production will carry price risks for cattle producers in the coming year.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. — John Myers credits the silt loam soil, the warm days and the humid mornings for the quality of hay he grows on his family’s property in the Butter Creek Valley southwest of E…
Medusahead and Ventenata grow unchecked on the prairie for several reasons — high silica content makes it unpalatable for livestock and game animals, it grows on bare ground and needs few nutr…
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Oregon’s sage grouse population was down 10 percent in 2018, which reflects unfavorable weather conditions rather than the efficacy of recovery efforts, according to state wildlife regulators.
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WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) — Forest Service officials say they've completed the roundup of more than 500 tribally-owned horses on national forest land in Nevada near the Oregon line.
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A coalition of environmental and community groups is challenging the USDA’s decision to exclude loans to medium-sized “concentrated animal feeding operations” from environmental analysis.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners adopted a grizzly bear conservation plan Monday that would maintain the largest population of the bruins in the Lower 48 at roughly curren…
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A plan by USDA to expand predator control activities in Idaho has been overturned by a federal judge who found it should undergo a more extensive environmental analysis.
COLVILLE, Wash. — The new director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says his agency needs to rebuild trust with the state's ranchers.
The access expands U.S. beef trade in Africa and is expected to be an $80 million market for U.S. beef.
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The Washington official who has the last word on whether to kill wolves says he struggled with making the call last summer, but decided that culling three packs that were attacking cattle was …
Delegates from county Farm Bureau organizations voted unanimously to support an Idaho Legislature mandate to state Fish and Game officials to allow USDA Wildlife Services to more aggressively …
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Some states, such as Idaho, got more of what ranchers needed in BLM’s resource-management plans.
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The plans reflect consultation and collaboration with western governors on how best to conserve habitat and protect the species.
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Though the U.S. Forest Service didn’t say so outright, Matt McElligott and other ranchers who graze cattle in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest believed they’d been given an ultimatum.
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OLYMPIA — A Washington lawmaker says he will introduce a bill authorizing hound hunters to practice chasing cougars.
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Ranchers in northeast Washington have identified what they call a "fatal flaw" in the Forest Service's plan to manage the Colville National Forest: No one can be expected to understand it.
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The state government has been ordered to pay legal fees in a lawsuit it lost over what has been referred to as an ‘ag gag’ law.
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NEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. beef is being recalled because it may be contaminated with salmonella.
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Members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and U.S. Cattlemen's Association talked politics, lab-grown meat and the Beef Checkoff Program during presentations at the Oregon Cattlemen…
Sheep prices in dollars per hundredweight (cwt.) except some replacement animals on per head basis as indicated.
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The five-year study, now entering its third year, should tell wildlife managers whether wolves are driving down the ungulate population.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An attorney for a Montana tribe says it's not accepting a small group of wild bison from Yellowstone National Park because of burdensome conditions proposed by federal o…
A federal judge in Idaho has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the family of Adams County rancher Jack Yantis, who was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs at his ranch on Nov. 1, 2015.
LAKE PRESTON, Australia (AP) — Knickers the steer is huge on the internet — for being huge.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The world's largest pork company is teaming up with a major energy company to turn pig manure into renewable natural gas.
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Animal behavior expert Temple Grandin speaks to FFA students.
Farmers and ranchers in the West will be pressed to adapt to minimize losses as temperatures rise by several degrees over the next few decades, according to the Fourth National Climate Assessment.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Montana counties plan to try again to pass a law to shift the burden of paying for the care of animals seized in animal cruelty cases to their owners.
CHEHALIS, Wash. — PND Organic Beef started life as a dairy.
SILETZ, Ore. — Rancher Tim Miller has served both his country and the agricultural industry.
ROCKVILLE, Ore. — When Mike Greeley was 12, he shot his first sage grouse on his father’s Malheur County cattle ranch near the Idaho border.
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The USDA has started a campaign to remind poultry farmers to safeguard their flocks from infectious and fatal diseases.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actor James Cromwell was among animal rights protesters who held stiff carcasses of dead piglets as they demonstrated at the Utah Capitol, calling on state officials to p…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is preparing to use the power of his office to keep a pair of turkeys off the Thanksgiving table.
The U.S. House debate Nov. 16 on de-listing gray wolves in the lower 48 was tinged with Northwest references to OR-7, Washington ranchers and the thought of turning lose apex predators in Portland.
USDA and the Food and Drug Administration have come to terms on oversight of cell-cultured meat and poultry products. The agencies on Friday announced they will both play a part, with FDA taki…
There have been some wins and some setbacks for ranchers this year when it comes to federal environmental policy, but it’s moving in the right direction under the Trump administration.
PENDLETON, Ore. — Cattle grazing on public land in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area was challenged in U.S. district court last week when an environmental group argued that it threaten…
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying again to place a GPS collar on at least one wolf from the Rogue pack in Southern Oregon following a recent spate of attacks on livestock in Jackson…
OAKFIELD, N.Y. (AP) — Cows that can withstand hotter temperatures. Cows born without pesky horns. Pigs that never reach puberty.
SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Most of the issues the Public Lands Council and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association are dealing with during the lame duck session of Congress involve the Endangered Speci…
Washington Fish and Wildlife has killed one wolf in Stevens County and suspended efforts to shoot two more wolves after a fruitless two-week search in Ferry County.
Wolves drove northeast Washington’s largest sheep rancher off grazing land. The question now is whether wolves will do the same to the largest cattle ranch, the Diamond M.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve federal protections for gray wolves and force the agency to develop a national recovery plan f…
HERMISTON, Ore. — An international company pioneering new techniques of in-vitro fertilization for cows has its headquarters in Hermiston.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The next generation of biotech food is headed for the grocery aisles, and first up may be salad dressings or granola bars made with soybean oil genetically tweaked to be good…
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