Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.1 million head on September 1, 2025. The inventory was 1% below ...

The following are highlights from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cattle on Feed report issued Nov. 21, 2025: Nov. 1 cattle on feed of 11.71 million head were in line with pre-report estimates ...

The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59%-98% above current levels. In ...

The report included a rare event with Texas slipping to No. 2, reporting 10,000 fewer cattle on feed than Nebraska, 2.63 ...

Get ideas for pasture water systems for livestock with this cattle feed trough design for portable use on the farm. If the drudgery of lugging feed to your livestock has you searching for a more ...

The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59% to 98% above current levels. In ...

The United States and European Union have pledged another way to tackle climate change, and it could have a direct impact on agriculture. The pledge is to reduce methane emissions by at least 30% by ...

Brett Reinford grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, and he remembers his farm’s cows being fed with cottonseed—35 years ago. “I remember digging tunnels through the cottonseed as a small boy,” he ...

In a first, researchers have identified the nation’s roughly 8,700 cattle feeding operations, and the map shows California has more of them than any other state. California also has the most feedlot ...

Feeding and raising livestock accounts for roughly 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Both cow farts and burps produce methane. However, 97 percent of all the methane gas from a cow is ...

Labour requirements and fixed costs have been cut by an automatic cattle feeding system that has also improved grower-stage performance by 100g a day on a beef ...

Grain-fed cattle provide nicely marbled beef. Yet, low-fiber diets can make cattle sick, while allowing harmful bacteria to proliferate, a paper in the 11 May 2001 issue of Science reports. "When ...