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To encouraging Washington’s cattle industry to either try out, or renew usage of the ECTR system, the state Department of Agriculture is offering free RFID tags. The WSDA’s Brennan Kimbel said ECTR, the Electronic Cattle Transaction Reporting System, offers ranchers and dairy owners an alternative way to meet brand inspection requirement s through self-reporting of sales and out-of-state cattle m

Friday's new USDA cattle inventory report shows the number of cattle and calves on January first at 4.4 million head. That's down about 0.5% from a year ago.  And in fact we're seeing declines in beef and dairy cows, replacement heifers for both sectors, and in the 2019 calf crop.  ...

When discussing the past 30 years of farm consolidation, consolidation of crop farms has been consistent.  When it comes to livestock, poultry and dairy farms,  "Although, we found in many ways, a much larger degree of consolidation, it tends to be episodic, it tends to occur say within ten or fifteen years of dramatic change within industries, USDA Research Economist Jim McDonald said.  “Hog