The Cattle Business Weekly
For cattlemen, by cattlemen is this podcast bringing you the latest in cattle industry headlines straight from the news desk of The Cattle Business Weekly in South Dakota. It's a dose of what's happening in markets, on the ranch and in Washington, D.C. It's news about everything that impacts a cattle operation's bottomline (aka profit). Listen to us in the feed truck, on the way to a cattle sale or on the porch with a beer! We promise you won't go away without having learned something.
Episodes
58 episodes
Kimball Livestock leads with big strings and record prices
Tuesday, May 6 was a day defined by big strings and strong prices for 8-weight cattle, with 26 sales of 100 head or more across the country. Kimball Livestock (Kimball, S.D.) led the action, posting the largest sale of the day and recording 12 ...
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Sickler's seedstock ranch sells cattle embryos as a side hustle
By Paige Nelson, CBW As a high schooler, Klint Sickler earned his lunch money by designing websites for ranchers. That led him to pursue a college degree in computer science. But eventually, being a ranch kid at heart, he realized he couldn’t s...
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State Conspiracies Don't Change Federal Policies
Editorial by Eric Jennings, SDCA Past President It’s puzzling how much attention the new traceability rule that requires electronic identification (EID) tags is garnering now that it has been fully implemented. I am puzzled because the t...
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Suspended: Live Animal Imports Through Southern Border
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins has suspended live cattle, horse, and bison imports through U.S. ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, e...
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Celebrating farm moms
Read about two South Dakota women who are busy raising their farm families By Lura Roti, SD Farmers Union This upcoming weekend mothers, grandmothers, aunts and special ladies will be celebrated during Mother’s Day. As we reflect on the women...
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Livestock Leaders Convene
Setting aside differences to help move industry forward Forty leaders from across the livestock industry convened at the Common Ground Summit April 21-23 at Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel. Their shared mission: to safeguard rural communities, ensu...
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Estrous synchronization with natural service offers many benefits to the cowherd
Cattle producers often associate estrous synchronization with artificial insemination (AI). Many do not associate the practices and economic benefits of synchronization with natural service breeding programs. “There are many production and econ...
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Consumers are seeking more protein in 2025
People are eating more protein than ever before, with 61% of Americans increasing their protein intake in 2024 versus just 48% who did so in 2019. These are only a few of the major findings from Cargill’s 2025 Protein Profile, an annual trends ...
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Diamond Bar Ranch honored with Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award
Diamond Bar Ranch is the recipient of the 2025 Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award®. The award honors farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health, water quality and wildlife habitat on w...
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Stomprud Angus Ranch receives South Dakota Leopold Conservation Award
Stomprud Angus Ranch of Mud Butte has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 South Dakota Leopold Conservation Award®. The ,000 award honors ranchers, farmers, and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health...
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U.S. Government Drops Charges Against Maude Family
By Codi Vallery-Mills Criminal charges have been dropped against ranchers Charles and Heather Maude of South Dakota. During a press conference last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins alongside the Maudes in Washington, D....
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Balancing opportunity in the beef market with uncertainty in the crop field
By Kelly Brandlee “We’re trying to make a little bigger product,” says Jared Dick, who runs Shaggy Meadows Red Angus just outside Marion, South Dakota. “Feeders and packers are asking for more pounds, so we’re focused on keeping up with that tr...
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Wagon Wheel Ranch to Receive Colorado Leopold Conservation Award
Wagon Wheel Ranch of Yuma has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award®. The award honors ranchers, farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health, water quality ...
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Bill Rishel to be honored with 2025 Saddle - Sirloin Portrait Award
William H. (Bill) Rishel of North Platte, Neb. has been named the 2025 inductee of the prestigious Saddle and Sirloin Portrait Gallery. Rishel will become the 380th member of this historic gallery and his portrait will be unveiled at an induc...
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Trend of Lower Numbers of Cattle on Feed Continues
By Justin Slabaugh, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing The market now turns its focus to digesting the results of the April USDA Cattle on Feed report, following a month marked by intense volatility. The March report revealed a significant year-over-year...
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Drought map shows small improvements
The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) saw widespread improvement in drought-related conditions across areas of the South, Southeast, and Midwest, where a series of strong storms delivered heavy rainfall, damaging winds, and severe floodi...
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Williams Family Receives "FFA Family of the Year" Award
The Mary and late Myron Williams family, of Wall, received the South Dakota FFA Foundation’s 2025 “Family of the Year” award. The award honoring the family’s active involvement in the South Dakota FFA/Agriculture Education program was presented...
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Fenceline Battle
Legislators visit Maude land to get first-hand knowledge By Codi Vallery-Mills A continuance has been issued in the Charles and Heather Maude theft of federal property case in South Dakota. The new court date is July 22, 2025. The Maude case da...
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Finishing Strong
By Donnie Leddy, publisher This past week I attended seven production sales across the region. All the sales were tremendous with good demand for all the bulls and replacement females both commercial and purebred. It appears that cattle produc...
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Guess Your Own COF: Strong fundamentals seen in March
By Matt Dabrowski It’s time to guess your own Cattle On Feed report. The next report will be released Thursday, April 17, on account of Good Friday. Last month’s report revealed a significant milestone: the lowest March feedlot inventory since ...
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Ribbon cutting held for new Sustainable Beef plant
By George Lauby, The North Platte Bulletin High hopes for the future of the beef industry, for profitable ranchers and cattle feeders, for North Platte and Nebraska as a whole — all of that was in the air Monday, March 24 as the ribbon was ...
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Black Fork Farms: A Legacy of Farming and Craft Bourbon in S.D.
By Kelly Brandlee Black Fork Farms has been in the Ommen family since 1889 when Gordon Ommen’s fourth great-grandfather, Poppy J, immigrated from Germany. The farm started as a traditional crop and cow-calf operation in Southwestern Minnesota, ...
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Cattle Chat: Deciding to keep or cull cows
Managing a successful business often involves making a series of decisions with the end goal of providing a quality outcome at a profit. In the beef cattle business, one of those decisions is what to do when a cow doesn’t rebreed and is consid...
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Growing and thriving in the face of challenges
By John Sachse Do you ever feel the weight of the world on your shoulders? Stress, burdens, and obstacles are no strangers to the men and women involved in production agriculture! In fact, they are a part of life. However, we have two options ...
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Livestock marketers spend time in Washington, D.C.
An outdated prohibition almost cost Heidi Nicholas her marriage. On paper, anyway. When the chance arose to buy Empire Livestock — a business with six livestock auction markets across New York — she seized it. Nicholas understood the markets’...
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