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Slaughter kids traded mainly weak to lower this week. Kids sold $10 lower at San Angelo, Goldthwaite and Fredericksburg. At New Holland, Pennsylvania slaughter kids traded mostly $10-30 lower.

There wasn’t much traction midweek in the Southern Plains fed cattle market again this week.

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Over the last several years the amount of Choice and Prime beef in the market has steadily climbed while the amount of Select has fallen. This has led some in the industry to question whether the industry can actually produce too much quality product.

There are 131 Mexican gray wolves that are known to be roaming New Mexico and Arizona this month, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services Agency believes that there are more wolves that are not collared roaming the two states. 

For students studying animal science, interactive gaming can now help introduce concepts of working with cattle, before they’ve even stepped foot in a pen or pasture.

The Animal Agriculture Alliance recently released a report detailing observations from the Animal Rights National Conference.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission this week issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Nathan Harris, a CFTC registrant, of Akron, Iowa, for fraud, unauthorized trading, and violating speculative position limits in live cattle futures contracts. 

I lay deep in the dust, unseen and missing to the world. As the winds of time put layer upon layer of corral dirt over me, I slipped into history without notice.