Herding cattle is a practice that goes back thousands of years, to when humans first realized that controlling large groups of animals could help provide them with steady sources of food.

Painful spurs and bucking straps are used to irritate normally docile cows and horses and provoke them into displaying "wild" behavior in order to make the "cowboys" look brave. Oversight of these ...

I had the opportunity to discuss the soybean, wheat, and corn markets, along with the cattle market and the stock market, in ...

Photos: Tricia Kennedy Gráinne Horan and her uncle Mick are bucking the trend of a declining ... the farm has steadily grown from 30 suckler cows to 59, having shifted their focus from finishing ...

Iowa saw more rain than other states last year, which may help explain the growth in beef numbers in the state, Doran said.