By Sky Chadde | Investigate Midwest  Around 6:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve in 2022, flames ripped through the bowels of an industrial facility in Fremont, Nebraska. Elevators were scorched. Conveyor belts collapsed. Metal doors melted. As smoke filled the sky, employees scrambled to escape. One dialed 911. “The plant’s on…

Texas lawmakers have taken a stance in the growing debate over the future of meat. Senate Bill 261, which prohibits the sale of lab-grown, or cell-cultured, proteins in the state, has passed the House of Representatives and is headed to the Senate floor for a final vote. The bill, authored…

What Happened Front-month futures in live cattle bottomed in 2009 and proceeded to rally for the next five years, peaking in 2014. Cattle futures then began to decline, finding a bottom in April 2020. Since then, cattle prices have remained in an uptrend, bearing a similar price pattern to 2009–2014.  …

New U.S. Department of Agriculture data reveals the staggering scope of damage caused by feral hogs: an estimated $1.6 billion in agricultural losses each year across just 13 states. The updated economic assessment, compiled by USDA’s National Feral Swine Damage Management Program, the National Wildlife Research Center, and the National…

Top Third Ag Marketing helps farmers become better agricultural marketers with the goal of marketing crops and livestock in the top third of prices. Mark Gold and his team provide AGDAILY.com with the latest information and a look ahead in their audio commentary. Listen here! https://www.agdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Agdaily-Top-Third-2025-05-27.mp3 The post Markets in Minutes: Top Third…

Today, USDA published the eighth Crop Progress report of the 2025 growing season. Here’s a look at the latest corn, soybean, wheat, and oat numbers. Corn Crop Progress As of May 25, 87% of the corn crop across the country’s top 18 corn-growing states had been planted. That’s ahead of…