On this planet, bacteria outnumber every other type of living organism. Researchers estimate the total number of bacteria at any moment in time ranges in the millions of trillions of trillions. (That’s 30 zeros.)

Living during the era of Covid-19 is interesting, to say the least. There are differing opinions, ideas, etc., that are bringing people together or tearing them apart. However, one thing everyone can agree on is real estate.

If you’re reading this, it means I just slipped in under the wire, not unlike the horses I’ve been chasing this morning – the same horses that were out a few nights ago at 10:30 p.m. when I was 20 miles away on my way back from a meeting in town.

When it’s springtime in the Rockies
And my lips are turning blue I’ll be slogging through the blizzard
like a brain-dead caribou …

After languishing for weeks at about $114 per hundredweight (cwt), the fed cattle market has sprung to life. Fed cattle prices hit $123-$124 in more Northern regions and closed the week at $121 in the Southern Plains.

Cody Easterday, owner of Easterday Ranches Inc., pled guilty to defrauding (Tyson) and an unnamed company (Company 1) out of more than $244 million by charging them under various agreements for the purported costs of purchasing and feeding hundreds of thousands of cattle that did not actually exist.

Beef exports have evolved significantly in recent years in a very dynamic environment of global politics and trade policies, direct and indirect impacts of animal disease outbreaks, and growing beef preferences and consumption.

The Biden administration submitted its discretionary funding request (DFR) for 2022 to Congress on April 9. The request outlines the president’s discretionary funding recommendations for several policy areas and provides “a strategy for reinvesting in the foundations of our country’s resilience and strength.”