Amid an ongoing battle over regulation of beefpackers, House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott introduced a bill Friday that would target new federal assistance to small cattle operations.

The Agriculture Department will offer small and mid-sized beef processors up to $500 million to help them weather a historic cattle shortage, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday.

If you’ve got goats, sheep, or other small livestock, you know predators always seem to test your fencing at the most inconvenient times. One night it’s a fox slipping between wires; the next week ...

Cattle graze in a field at Otter Creek Farm on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Johnsonville. The farms sells a small number of life cattle and pigs annually to consumers who then have their animals slaughtered ...

A cow is pictured on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, at a ranch in Marquez, Texas. Drought in the Great Plains is one of the big reasons the U.S. cattle herd is so small. The U.S. contains the fewest cattle ...