Chuck Utecht doubts someone would have jumped the electric fence and tangled with the bulls on their own turf and the distances and damage involved suggests a high-powered rifle was used. The shooter also targeted a calf in a nearby feedlot, but Utecht is more worried about what type of person would gun down a trio of penned animals and think it was fun. Deputies did not find any shell casings and the owners could not think of anyone who would shoot the cattle for no apparent reason....

That now seems to be the case given the standoff between several cattle owners and sellers after the market closed, he said. Live cattle rose at the start due to short covering after Thursday's losses and reports that dressed cattle on Thursday sold in line with last week's trade. Nervous bulls sold into upswings as they settled accounts before the weekend and ahead of the federal government's monthly cattle-on-feed numbers, due out Friday at 3 p. One of the situations that traders didn't...

In comparison, non-organic dairy farmers are allowed to use more grain-based feed containing cereals, maize and protein supplements, which increase milk yields, but may adversely affect the nutritional composition of the milk. In a survey of 1000 adults, more than a quarter (27%) said giving their children organic food was very important and many were prepared to forego personal luxuries. Research by the Soil Association shows parents of young children are among the biggest supporters of...

This is the first calving season for cattle farmers since the wolf was taken off the endangered list. To have a gun just when you see a wolf and having it loaded and being able to shoot this animal, I don't think there's a real big chance of that happening. With an oversized deer herd acting as lunch-on-a-hoof, Koens says it does make for challenging times. Still, he doesn't think people raising cattle for a living will be gunning down the canines under the new rules. Cattle ranchers are...

The fed cattle prices very likely could dip into the mid-80s around Memorial Day on in late August when the market typically experiencing its lows for the year. Though the cattle price has recovered from the ethanol boom quicker than he anticipated, ethanol has had an effect on the corn market, which in turn affects the cattle market. I believe the market has the potential to get $1 or slightly more in fed cattle prices, but it will have to be in the next 60 days. In most years, the market...