A historic winter storm that swept across much of the United States this weekend is causing widespread disruption to agriculture, with ice, snow, and bitter cold resulting in barn collapses, power outages, livestock evacuations, and mounting economic losses expected to exceed $100 billion.
Read MoreThe National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has opened applications for summer 2026 semester internships in the association’s Colorado headquarters and Washington, D.C. office. Internships are available for public policy and meetings and events.
Read MoreCattle producers across northeast Louisiana are encouraged to register now for one of the LSU AgCenter’s hallmark livestock education programs — the 2026 Northeast Region Master Cattleman Course, hosted this year in Union Parish, along with the Advanced Master Cattleman Program to be held at Hill Farm.
Read MoreAdvanced Master Cattleman serves as a subsequent course to the Master Cattleman Program. It is designed to provide in-depth discussions, presentations, and hands-on demonstrations. Participants must attend all four workshops to graduate from the Advanced Master Cattleman Program.
Read MoreThe global beef landscape is witnessing a historic changing of the guard. According to recent reporting from Reuters, Brazil has officially surpassed the U.S. as the world’s leading beef producer.
Read MoreIt has been a staple in Southwest Louisiana for the past 86 years, and now it's back to celebrate its 87th year. The Southwest District Livestock Show and Rodeo is coming back to Lake Charles.
Read MoreThe St. Tammany Parish Junior Livestock show, one of the parish's longest running events, will be held for the 90th time on January 22-24 at the Parish Fairgrounds in Covington.
Read MoreHAPPY NEW YEAR! May the year 2026 find you happy, safe, healthy and prosperous! We started the year 2025 with 2% less cattle and calves and ended the year selling 2% more cattle through our 6 Louisiana auctions (Mansura closed July 1, 2025). If we used the last week’s sale in December 2025 and compared it to the first sale in January 2025 in the USDA Southeast Region, 400-700 lb. calves were $500.00-$600.00 per head higher. Throughout the marketing year calves and feeders reached record highs.
Read MoreThe head of the US Meat Export Federation says China’s recently announced tariffs on imports of beef are misguided. Dan Halstrom says the government is doing it to address inflationary pressures. “However, they should be looking at it from, in our opinion, let’s bolster consumer confidence in China,” he says. “Because there’s enough demand in China for all parties, Brazil, Australia, the US.”
Read MoreBrazil surpassed the U.S. as the world’s top beef producer last year, according to market estimates, after the South American country beat output forecasts by hundreds of thousands of tons, easing a global supply squeeze and helping limit a surge in meat prices.
Read MoreThe House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on the Abuse of the Equal Access to Justice Act yesterday.
Read MoreA truck loaded with cattle is in the I-20 West median at the 177-mile marker.
According to local law enforcement, a cattle truck has left the roadway and is in the median near Mound, Louisiana. Traffic is being diverted from 1-20 to the Mound exit and then onto Highway 80 to bypass the accident.
Read MoreRecently, higher beef prices at the grocery store have become a hot topic. It’s made local and national news headlines and taken social media by storm. That attention has fueled a narrative that something is “wrong” with the beef supply chain, pulling ranchers, media, elected officials and industry critics into a fast-moving conversation.
Read MoreToday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is excited to highlight the launch of the NEW Unified New World screwworm (NWS) website, screwworm.gov. This dynamic new site centralizes NWS information available across the federal government and reflects our whole-of-government effort to fight this pest through implementation of Secretary Rollins’ comprehensive five-pronged plan.
Read MoreA St. Landry Parish man was arrested for livestock theft on Nov. 19 following an investigation by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s Livestock Brand Commission.
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