Ag economist Ted Schroeder of Kansas State University discusses how premiums filter back from beef consumer to beef producer.

The 2016 Idaho Range Livestock Symposium was a big success. The traveling symposium was held April 19 in Marsing, April 20 in Twin Falls, April 21 in Challis, and concluded with a range tour in the Challis area on April 22.

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The National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance (NAFA) announced the creation of the first-ever U.S. Alfalfa Farmer Research Initiative (aka alfalfa checkoff program), a farmer-funded investment in alfalfa-related research to help drive innovation and profitability in the alfalfa industry.

Until April 2015, European dairy farmers were producing milk under a quota system, with Dutch dairy farmers being no exception.

Spring sprung early this year as fed cattle prices have dropped sharply from their highs in early spring.

Land O’Lakes Inc. is establishing a structured base program in the Midwest to help balance burgeoning milk production levels with processing and marketing capabilities.

There has been an unusually high number of bloat problems among cattle in southwest Missouri over the last two or three weeks. According to Eldon Cole, livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension, several cattle deaths have occurred.

On April 12, Wally Smith, president of Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), joined a press conference organized by Les Producteurs de lait du Québec (PLQ) to express their dissatisfaction with the Canadian government on the lack of enforcement of Canadian cheese compositional standards.