Cattle on feed weight breakdown reflected smaller placements. Last month all three categories under 800 pounds showed increases in the neighborhood of 25 percent above a year ago. Comparatively at the ...

With 10,000 cattle, Cleveland County is the eighth largest beef producer in North Carolina -- to feed all those cows, farmers rely on thousands of acres of pasture and those pastures rely on a ...

From our analysis, the five counties with the largest cattle counts (Deaf Smith, Castro, Parmer, Hartley and Hansford), as of January 2016 had a total of 1,980,000 head of cattle out of a total ...

This means ranchers need hay to feed their cattle, and multitudes of it. "It's been a huge three weeks. We've handled almost 20,000 bales of hay here in three weeks," said Andy Holloway, Texas ...

In January, business at the 101 Livestock Market's cattle auction on California's Central Coast is usually slow. The busy season is normally in June or July, when ranchers have had time to fatten ...

In counties such as Baker and Grant, cattle and calves make up more than half of the gross agricultural sales, and family ranches are a bedrock for rural economies. ... Feed shot up 22 percent, ...

Some of the Cattle on the Hogg Family Farm take a break from the heat by relaxing in the shade of a tree. Josh Cobb/News Tribune photo: 90 percent of Missouris counties are experiencing drought ...

The state says 7,350 animals were killed, mostly livestock. Officials in the counties hit say the death toll could be higher.