By Codi Vallery-Mills More details were provided about a proposed meatpacking plant slated to be constructed just outside Rapid City at a meeting on June 30. It was hosted by Megan Kingsbury of Kingsbury & Associates and Sirius Realty who is developing the Western Legacy Development Corporation packing plant. The event served as a two-hour question and answer session. Cattle […]
As we move into July, we are fortunate that the cattle market continues to be very strong. We ended the month of June with the highest fed cattle in 2022, coming off a strong May. Northern cattle were bumping on $150, with reported prices between $145 and $149. We all know that the cost of doing business is currently […]
Through CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies, researchers and developers are poised to bring dozens — if not hundreds — of new products to grocery stores: mushrooms with longer shelf lives, drought-resistant corn and bananas impervious to a fungus threatening the global supply. A few, including a soybean variety that produces a healthier cooking oil, are already being sold commercially […]
By Casey Kinler, Animal Agriculture Alliance Consider the scenario when a photo of a cow (or other ag life scene) is posted on Facebook and then hundreds of negative comments start pouring in. Perhaps the person posting the image had included how the cow received antibiotics for pneumonia and is now on the mend, (or shared information about some other […]