Consumer price index data show that beef and veal prices were 8.5% higher in April 2025 than in April 2024 while the average price of ground beef reached $6.02 per pound in May 2025, reflecting a ...

Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed ...

Beef Empire Days Live Show attendees mark their choices during the event June 4 in Garden City, Kansas. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.) For more information about Beef Empire Days and to find a ...

Hamburgers and steaks for your summer cookout look to be more expensive than ever, with U.S. beef prices hitting record highs. Cattle futures, wholesale beef cutout prices and retail prices are ...

Evidence of the industry’s presence, and its profitability, is everywhere now around Edon. Dozens of big concrete, steel, and vinyl cattle feeding barns have already been built, each costing $130,000 ...

The Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center is a $7.2-million project that is taking a new approach to research by focusing on performance, environmental issues and animal-welfare challenges in the ...

Mitigating methane emissions in grazing beef cattle with a seaweed-based feed additive: Implications for climate-smart agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (50 ...

Beyond the Average Cattle Cycle – A Hypercycle. The cattle cycle is the expansion and contraction of the cattle inventory as a response to farmers’ and ranchers’ perceived profitability of the beef ...

Their high grain and high fiber diets can make bulls and cows particularly gassy. Earlier research found that giving feedlot cattle seaweed cut methane emissions by 82 percent and feeding it to ...

Bullish - Video. Beef Cattle Farming: From Range Land to Feedlot. Posted: March 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. Phil Burgess explains to his city-dwelling nephew Wes and niece Emily the ...

The U.S. beef cattle herd is the smallest it's been since 1961. This is due to factors like drought, high supply chain costs, declining consumer appetite for beef and other struggles within the ...

They’re doing that by feeding cows a food that’s not grown on land — seaweed. June 29, 2025. ... There are about 1.2 million beef and dairy cattle, including calves, in Oregon.