by Beef News | Jun 9, 2025 | Science, Business, Farm Policy
A $4.85 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund and the Global Methane Hub to the Angus Foundation—part of a larger $27.4 million Global Methane Genetics Initiative—was pitched as a voluntary program to breed cattle that burp less methane. What’s clear now, however,...
by Beef News | Jun 5, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy
On May 27, cattle producers across the U.S. were blindsided by a viral report claiming New World screwworm—a flesh-eating parasitic fly last seen in U.S. herds over 40 years ago—had been detected in Missouri. The claim was false. But the damage was real. Live cattle...
by Beef News | Jun 4, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy
You’re not imagining it—your steak is getting more expensive. But what the headlines aren’t telling you is why. The U.S. cattle industry is heading off a supply cliff, and the bottom is nowhere in sight. According to the USDA’s May 2025 Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry...
by Beef News Wire | Jun 2, 2025 | Business
Originally published by Tyler Durden on ZeroHedge.com Investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts sat down for a wide-ranging interview, in which she warned about the future of food security, digital financial surveillance via Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), and...
by Beef News | Jun 1, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy
In early 2025, the USDA quietly terminated two major programs that had funneled over $1 billion toward “local food procurement”—but often in name only. The Local Food for Schools (LFS) and Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) programs were both discontinued by the...
by Beef News | May 30, 2025 | Farm Policy, Business, Health
After nearly a decade of deception at the meat counter, Congress may finally be forced to tell the truth. A bipartisan group of senators—including John Thune, Mike Rounds, and Cory Booker—has reintroduced the American Beef Labeling Act, a bill that would...
