A letter critical of American Angus Association CEO Bryce Schumann sent by 15 employees to the association’s board of directors has resulted in 12 employees being dismissed, including six regional managers.

The national news media apparently have the American public convinced that a confrontation boiling over in the Nevada desert between ranchers and the feds actually reflects the hostility between all cattlemen and the government.

Finally agriculture has its own index ranking competitive factors in the world of business, thanks to a new study released by Colorado State University economists. Called the Agribusiness Friendly Index, the rankings were formed by a two-year study conducted by Greg Perry, professor and department head of agricultural and resource economics at CSU, and James Pritchett, also a professor of agricultural and resource economics, and an extension agricultural specialist at CSU.

Being a political junkie, I’ve been relatively torn between fascination and dismay when studying the results of the most recent presidential election.

Maybe it was because they turned in their assignment almost two years late, but Congress isn’t getting high grades on this year’s farm bill.

Whether in good times or in bad, be it with high prices or low – today’s rancher knows that a profit depends not on what comes out of the cattle, but mostly what goes in.

When an audience member at National Cattlemen’s Beef Association convention asked McDonald’s Bob Langert what the biggest threat is to the company’s viability, he didn’t struggle for an answer.

Speaking to members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association at the 2014 national convention, McDonald’s Vice President of Sustainability Bob Langert said the company’s recent pledge to start buying only sustainable beef by 2016 is motivated not just by the customer’s demands – but also the goal of selling more beef.

After seeing herd liquidation trends in 16 of the past 18 years, U.S. beef producers are moving toward herd expansion in 2014, according to CattleFax analysts speaking at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association National Convention Feb. 5 in Nashville.

This month marks the return of the Winter Olympic Games, to be held this year in Sochi, Russia – a resort town I’ve neither visited nor learned to properly pronounce.