Mega-retailers Walmart U.S. and Sam’s Club on Friday announced new policies on the use of antibiotics in farm animals and promoting animal welfare.

My grandmother has been gone now for 13 years. Yet hardly a day goes by that I’m not remembering some direction or counsel she preached in passing that became a lesson lasting a lifetime.

Change, as the well-worn mantra always goes, is usually for the better. Life has a way of teaching and softening our coarsened, callow habits, leading us to the road of wider wisdom.

Making sense of restrictions for antimicrobials starting December 2016The world of perception is changing the rules in the beef cattle business, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the use of antibiotics.

Let the record show that Shalene McNeill, executive director of human nutrition research for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, is no fan of this year’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Council.

The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion announced this week that it will extend the public comment period on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines another 30 days to May 8.

By now you’ve heard, seen or experienced for yourself the thrilling reality that the beef cattle industry is thriving in 2015. At this year’s CattleFax Outlook seminar in San Antonio, CEO Randy Blach made a compelling comment, saying how he wished his parents were still around to see the phenomenal run of cattle prices we see today.

Landowners throughout the Southwest have long wrestled with the exploding numbers of feral hogs in their region. But a newly developed method for trapping hogs could flip the momentum.

Encouraging weather forecasts and rising production trends in grain and forage should provide major relief in the feedstuff outlook for 2015, according to CattleFax analyst Mike Murphy.

The U.S. beef industry has gone eight straight years without making any growth in beef production – and still the product climbs in world popularity.