Beef sales and operating improvements pushed Tyson Foods inc. to its best overall quarter since the summer of 2005, despite swings in both corn and live cattle prices. Beef has been a dismal business for the world's largest meat packer amid sagging exports and protein oversupplies that pushed prices lower for 10 consecutive quarters. Also, analysts predict stronger processing margins and adequate cattle supply in light of the winter storms that held cattle back. On Monday, the company...

When all was said and done, Kohrs owned a million acres of land and ran cattle on 10 million acres of open range. Some 20,000 visitors come to this working cattle ranch each year to see what life was life for the first settlers in Montana. Original buildings include the ranch house, bunkhouse, blacksmith shop, ice house, granary, horse barns and cattle sheds. A cattle trader, Grant built up his herds by trading one healthy steer for two trail-worn ones. Wyrick said the ranch averages 75 to...

They should continue to see moderate increases in prices for meat and poultry products during 2007 because of the higher feed costs, which are being combined with higher energy costs, said Jeff Helms, communications director for the Alabama Farmers Federation. The corn that is used to produce ethanol is the same corn that makes up a large part of the feed for cattle and hogs, and more importantly, poultry. They should continue to see moderate increases in prices for meat and poultry...

SCHNEIDAU Staff Writer Five whitetail deer were seized by state natural resources officials from the same Severn farm where three fallow deer were taken and euthanized in 2004. The fatal disease is similar to mad cow disease and spreads quickly among deer. Valentine had a permit that allowed him to own two bucks and two does, but they were required to be housed separately so they couldn't mate, Sgt. In an annual inspection by the department earlier this month, officers found a fifth deer....

In Argentina, where beef consumption runs about 8,000 tons a day, meat is a food staple and accounts for 4.5 percent of the national consumer price index. April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Argentine ranchers in the country's two biggest beef producing provinces are refusing to send cattle to market in a 15-day strike against President Nestor Kirchner's price controls. The country's biggest livestock market of Liniers in the Buenos Aires province reported 4988 head arrived compared with a daily...