CROCKETT, Texas (Reuters) - With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling ...

New year opens with strong fundamentals in the cattle market, setting up for another good year. The end of 2025 brought ...

Live cattle futures are up 20 cents in the nearby February contracts, with other months $1 to $1.50 higher. Cash trade from ...

Even though dairy cattle were at the smallest price point sold at both feeder- and slaughter-cattle auctions, they were also the heaviest largely due to having bigger skeletal frames. Dairy-feeder ...

Live cattle futures are trading with 85 cent to $1.10 gains so far on Thursday. Cash trade has been quiet so far this week ...

And young heifers could be the value point as prices trend not far outside the range of slaughter cow money. There were several big yardings of cattle across three states last week, led by the opening ...

TURLOCK, Calif. – Hundreds of thousands of America’s dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. Dairy ...

While conditions are especially acute in Texas, about 54% of all U.S. cattle were in some form of drought as of Aug. 16, up from 36% a year earlier. Cattle slaughter is high nationwide, temporarily ...