Close up, a feedlot cow is a sight to behold: It’s a hulking, broad-shouldered eating machine with a three-foot-long tongue and a jaw that never seems to stop chewing. At just 20 months old, one of ...

CANYON — On a chilly, windy morning at Nance Ranch, university and community leaders stood before mounds of freshly turned dirt as West Texas A&M University broke ground on a $15 million research ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness conglomerate Cargill Inc said it will close its Lockney, Texas, feedlot next summer due to shrinking supplies of cattle and high feed costs. The pending closure ...

On Nov. 10, the West Texas A&M University Foundation broke ground on their new $15 million research feedlot complex. According to a news release, the WTAMU Foundation Research Feedlot and the Paul F.

COLLEGE STATION -- A study examining the presence of salmonella in beef cattle feedyards was the focus of a series of studies by Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists and faculty in the department of ...

AUSTIN — Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in Texas feedlots with capacity of 1,000 head or more totaled 2.88 million head on Nov. 1, up 1 percent from a year ago. According to the ...

Clouds of fecal dust from large cattle feedlots in the western part of the Texas Panhandle can be so bad when the wind picks up that they coat the nearby town of Hereford, making it difficult to ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, non-profit news organization. Lawrence Brorman eases his pickup through plowed farmland in ...

Unhealthy. Nutritious. Cruel. Delicious. Unsustainable. All-American. In the beef debate there are so many sides. At Wrangler Feedyard, on the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle, night was coming to ...