The USDA has resurrected a number of rules aiming to reform the Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration Act (GIPSA), six years after the proposals stalled under the pen of Congress. 

John Steinbeck, in his first-person account, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, wrote this of discovering Montana: “I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it. 

Years ago, my kids, out of a sudden case of curiosity, peeked into my old high school yearbooks. To my surprise and their amusement, they began mocking what was long ago a sophisticated look and style.

Colin Woodall is vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Originally from Big Spring, Texas, he graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in agricultural systems management.

A trio of speakers at the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association Producer's Forum took aim at one of the key questions plaguing the cattle industry over the past 12 months. Namely, why is the futures market in such disarray?

If you want to stir some dark memories for cattle producers in the Southern Plains, just remind them of the summer of 2011.

Some will call it curious timing. Others will say the stars lined up out of kismet and good fortune. But just days before Brazil would light the Olympic flame for the first time on South American soil, the USDA extended its own peace offering to the world’s fifth-largest nation.

Perhaps you’ve had the difficult discussion, as a parent or child, when you decide what direction to take in life. What education and training is needed? What career will lead to being happy and successful?

A bill passed by the Senate late Thursday will require food manufacturers to list products produced from genetically modified seeds, crops and ingredients. Those labels can include printed labels, QR digital codes, texts or a link to a website, telling consumers the product has GMOs.

A Senate bill introduced Thursday has the potential to create a compromise on labeling of food products made from genetically engineered ingredients.