The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Follow Cole Jamison of Anamosa as he takes his beef cattle from the family farm to the Great Jones ...

The latest available CPI data shows the beef and veal category is up 14.7% while overall food is up 3.1%. The start of 2025 saw the lowest cattle numbers in the U.S. since 1951. Severe drought over ...

U.S. beef plants face unprecedented pressure as a Mexican cattle import halt — imposed to prevent screwworm spread — leaves processors undersupplied and forced to shutter facilities. The border ...

This year, Destinee Weeks and her husband, who manage a herd of about 250 cattle in northern Oklahoma, began to see a profit for the first time in a decade. So Weeks was shocked and dismayed when she ...