The length of the fattening process and the import prices of the huge amount of concentrated feed increases the cost of the beef, and over this fattening period, each cow will eat 5 tons of feed.

USDA’s Semi-Annual Cattle Inventory report confirmed a 61-year low in the beef cow herd, and barring some major change in the weather, the cattle inventory may not be done shrinking yet.

USDA does outline choice beef into three subsections ... And since inspection only targets one part of the cow, such a ...

China, South Korea, and the Philippines have temporarily halted imports of Canadian beef where an “atypical” case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease ...

In the late 1990s, there was an outbreak of mad cow disease in humans in Great Britain, which caused the country to suspend beef consumption for several months.

The data suggests the cow market is finally starting to better reflect the significant money being paid for grinding beef into the US. The graph on this page shows the trend line for 90 chemical ...