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...

Taylor, 36, maintains about 25 purebred, black Angus cattle on the family farm Taylor Maples and sells some of the animal's meat at market. Previous generations of the family raised dairy cattle on the farm. The association is primarily a networking organization, but Taylor will also be involved in such events as the annual Bull Test, in which Angus cattle are tested for their genetics; the Michigan Beef Expo; and various Michigan Junior Association events and fundraisers. The association...

Fortunately, it is no longer deemed necessary to send tens of thousands of men underground, but accidents still happen on farms with a depressing regularity. Farming is a dangerous industry, but it is also nowadays to a large extent a solitary occupation with relatively few people employed on farms. Well, that does not wash with me; nor indeed would it with any motorist who found a tractor suddenly turning right without signalling because the indicator light was not working. However, the...

How many of you saw the article about the 13-foot alligator killed on the Trinity River in Leon County? My mind started thinking about those times when the steamboats plowed up and down the Trinity River with reptiles as big or bigger lying in the shade waiting on some unsuspecting dinner, human or animal, to come swimming by. How many of you saw the article about the 13-foot alligator killed on the Trinity River in Leon County? My mind started thinking about those times when the...

Detectives recently conducted a two-day operation focusing on the theft of cattle, many of which were being agisted locally from drought-affected properties. Rural crime investigators have launched a major inquiry into the theft of cattle worth $20,000 from the north coast. Part of the operation was the ongoing investigation into the theft of cows and calves from the Coutts Crossing area, near Grafton, between January and April this year. This service may include material from Agence...