CROCKETT, Texas (Reuters) - With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling ...

Terrain's Dave Weaber says placements of cattle into feedlots will continue to shrink, long-feared beef slaughter capacity reductions have arrived, and the beef cow herd hasn’t begun to expand.

Even though dairy cattle were at the smallest price point sold at both feeder- and slaughter-cattle auctions, they were also the heaviest largely due to having bigger skeletal frames. Dairy-feeder ...

And young heifers could be the value point as prices trend not far outside the range of slaughter cow money. There were several big yardings of cattle across three states last week, led by the opening ...

"JBS will permanently close a facility outside Los Angeles that prepares beef for sale at U.S. grocery stores, the world’s ...

TURLOCK, Calif. – Hundreds of thousands of America’s dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. Dairy ...

While conditions are especially acute in Texas, about 54% of all U.S. cattle were in some form of drought as of Aug. 16, up from 36% a year earlier. Cattle slaughter is high nationwide, temporarily ...