Sort & Cull

Here's another way to keep up to date on the cattle market.

The University of Illinois would like to find their stone dairy cows and pig. Here's the backstory on these historical figures.

Livestock haulers could get a reprieve from federal Hours of Service rules under a bill introduced in Congress last week.

Farmers and ranchers are rightfully happy with the trade deals with Japan and China. But they shouldn't go overboard in their enthusiasm.

DTN's new livestock analyst ShayLe Stewart introduces herself to DTN customers and expresses her hopes to help her fellow cattlemen successfully understand market behavior.

A Twitter campaign is calling on President Donald Trump to take some action that would provide more market fairness in the cattle trade against the four large packers. Meanwhile, the Senate Agriculture Committee will hear about some of these issues Wednesday during a hearing...

DTN's technical analysis of live cattle, feeder cattle and lean hogs.

DTN Associate Editor Cheri Zagurski has an idea about what to call meatless meat products.

Some management scenarios call for saying more, not less.

John Harrington's life was full of incredible stories of long odds with plentiful bounties at the finish line.

It's time to cultivate a renewed sense of community by reaching out to those around us. Help us tell the good stories and follow our new series about simple gestures that mean a lot.

While wet weather is not ideal for spring fieldwork, it gives farmers the opportunity to do maintenance on haying equipment.

John Harrington gives his thoughts on what could have become of former Vice President Joe Biden had he gone a different route as a young lad.

There's new evidence that despite chicken's zooming performance over beef in recent decades, this pronounced growth bias continues to accelerate -- perhaps to a longer-term disadvantage for the poultry industry.

John Harrington weighs in on which president deserves to be honored by ag more on Presidents Day: an inspiring cheerleader long on theory, or a visionary policymaker who actually shaped the infrastructure and enduring productivity of U.S. agriculture?

The government will be reopened for at least three weeks, but John Harrington conjures up possibly want ads for desperate job seekers otherwise denied more logical and efficient occupation by federal budgeteers.

If trade wars are truly "short and easily won," there still may be hope for Yeller's destructive fever to break.

The presidential archives may not feature too many pictures of George H.W. Bush picking corn or slopping hogs, but library shelves will groan for years to come thanks to the weight of the 41st president's thoughtful policies regarding the necessary future plans for U.S...

The USDA on Thursday posted a final rule ending the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, or GIPSA. Some fear this change will harm efforts to police the meatpacking industry.

Despite all the hype, veganism doesn't seem to be growing much. Sales of vegan food are.