Angus Genetics Inc. (AGI) and GeneSeek, a Neogen Corporation subsidiary headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, announced the immediate availability of the Developmental Duplication (DD) genetic condition test. The launch allows Angus breeders to order the DD test either by using Association archived or new samples. Details on the test are available at the American Angus Association AAA Login website.

To better serve its customers and meet their needs for beef, Cargill is investing $48 million in a new automated order distribution system at its Dodge City, Kansas plant. Construction will begin during the fourth quarter of calendar 2013, with the new system scheduled to be operational by spring 2015.

The healthy school lunch push that has consumed the USDA for the past three years is looking like a meal with empty calories.

The next time you question whether you can afford feeding your horse, take heart. The U.S. government is facing the same problem.

Cattle feeders and beef industry experts are wondering what comes next in the unfolding saga of beta agonists.

The fallout over beta agonists continues to mount, as more meat packing firms step away from the product Zilmax.

By a margin previously unseen on a Progressive Cattleman poll, a wide majority of online respondents feel the U.S. should change its policy and make horse slaughter legal.

The USDA-AMS LGMN Branch provides a weekly video providing timely market information and quotes pertaining to feeder cattle. The LGMN Branch compiles and disseminates information aiding producers, consumers, and distributors in the sale and purchase of livestock, meat, grain, and their related products.  

If you’ve been paying attention, you know this hasn’t been a banner year for public confidence in power of government. Some recent cases from the headlines: • The Internal Revenue Service was forced to account for its aggressive procedures when reviewing non-profit tax status applications by tea party and conservative political groups.

Global meat production is expected to grow at a slower pace over the next decade than the one before, with the poultry sector driving the deceleration, according to a new agricultural outlook report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Meat production growth is projected to slow to 1.6 percent compared with growth of 2.3 percent in the previous decade. Growth will be constrained by higher input costs and competing demand for land and water from alternative crops, the report said.