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Top Gun Takes the Grass

Top Gun may need more room to buzz the desert, but Nevada ranchers say the expansion is taking a bite out of the ground that keeps their cattle business alive. The fence line: The Fallon Range Training Complex expansion is moving forward after Congress approved a major modernization that adds land ranges, airspace changes and infrastructure upgrades. The Navy says the Bravo ranges and Dixie Valley Training Area were too cramped for realistic training. Ranchers hear that and m

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Top Gun Takes the Grass

Top Gun may need more room to buzz the desert, but Nevada ranchers say the expansion is taking a bite out of the ground that keeps their cattle business alive. The fence line: The Fallon Range Training Complex expansion is moving forward after Congress approved a major modernization that adds land ranges, airspace changes and infrastructure upgrades. The Navy says the Bravo ranges and Dixie Valley Training Area were too cramped for realistic training. Ranchers hear that and m

Livestock

39 minutes ago

STREAM Program Gets in the Weeds

The Department of Health and Human Services is now wandering into weed control, which is the kind of sentence that makes every agronomist check whether they missed a memo. Spray drift: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing the new STREAM program toward pesticide monitoring, next-generation herbicides, drift modeling, drones and nonchemical weed control. The idea, per the program, is to reduce messy chemical exposure while still leaving farm

Farming

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USDA Data Trust Gets a Beef-Sized Error

USDA data is supposed to be the quiet adult in the room. Lately, it has been giving off “new intern near the spreadsheet” energy. The correction: Senate Democrats are pressing the agency after a beef export sales number turned out to be very, very wrong. The original weekly report showed 2026 beef sales at a marketing-year high, up nearly 500% from the prior week, which is the kind of jump that makes markets sit upright. Oops wagon: Then USDA revised the figure, lowering repo

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Top Gun Takes the Grass

Top Gun may need more room to buzz the desert, but Nevada ranchers say the expansion is taking a bite out of the ground that keeps their cattle business alive. The fence line: The Fallon Range Training Complex expansion is moving forward after Congress approved a major modernization that adds land ranges, airspace changes and infrastructure upgrades. The Navy says the Bravo ranges and Dixie Valley Training Area were too cramped for realistic training. Ranchers hear that and m

Livestock

39 minutes ago

STREAM Program Gets in the Weeds

The Department of Health and Human Services is now wandering into weed control, which is the kind of sentence that makes every agronomist check whether they missed a memo. Spray drift: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing the new STREAM program toward pesticide monitoring, next-generation herbicides, drift modeling, drones and nonchemical weed control. The idea, per the program, is to reduce messy chemical exposure while still leaving farm

Farming

40 minutes ago

USDA Data Trust Gets a Beef-Sized Error

USDA data is supposed to be the quiet adult in the room. Lately, it has been giving off “new intern near the spreadsheet” energy. The correction: Senate Democrats are pressing the agency after a beef export sales number turned out to be very, very wrong. The original weekly report showed 2026 beef sales at a marketing-year high, up nearly 500% from the prior week, which is the kind of jump that makes markets sit upright. Oops wagon: Then USDA revised the figure, lowering repo

Policy

42 minutes ago

Big Beef Gets a Smaller Chute

The beef packing business is starting to look like musical chairs, except the chairs are giant plants and nobody wants to be the cow standing when the song stops. The squeeze: Beef packing has been concentrated for decades, with the four largest firms handling most steer and heifer purchases. That structure can make plants efficient, but it also means any capacity shuffle lands loudly in cattle country. Fewer bidders is not exactly the kind of auction energy producers dream a

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3 days ago

Fire Response Gets a Little Too Close to Home

Wildfire season already has smoke, heat and enough stress to make a drip torch need therapy. Now it has an ethics subplot, because apparently the flames needed paperwork too. The spark: Michael Boren, USDA undersecretary for natural resources and environment, reportedly pressed wildfire officials for a bigger response when a small Idaho fire burned near his private ranch. That is the kind of sentence that makes government watchdogs sit up straighter and spill their coffee. Ai

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El Niño Walks Into the Field

The Pacific is warming up its plot twist, and agriculture gets to do what it always does: make plans while the weather laughs softly in the background. Forecast fence: The latest ocean temperatures have forecasters watching a potentially historic El Niño, with one outlook putting a 69% chance on an exceptional event later this year. That does not mean every field gets the same treatment. Weather loves nothing more than making regional maps look like spilled salsa. Global shuf

Farming

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Farmland’s Family Transfer

How it starts: A huge generational land transfer is already underway, with aging landowners, heirs, trusts, LLCs and non-operating landlords turning farmland succession into a very expensive family group project. By the acres: More than 2 million landowners rented out 348 million acres of farmland in 2024, and 79% of those rented acres were owned by non-farming landlords. USDA also says about 43 million acres are expected to transfer ownership within five years, before wills

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7 days ago

Tyson’s Beef Exit Gets Rare

The beef business is doing that thing where the steak is expensive, the packers are losing money and everyone involved looks equally annoyed. Plant math: Tyson is closing its Joslin, Illinois, beef plant and looking to sell its Pasco, Washington, facility as the cattle supply stays painfully tight. Joslin employs more than 2,300 people, which makes this more than just a spreadsheet with bad vibes. Not a one-off: This follows the company’s earlier Lexington, Nebraska, closure,

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