U.S. average price per gallon went down 57 cents since midspring due to production increases after refinery maintenance.

My first time attending the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association was pretty memorable in the winter of 2011. The occasion was solidified in my mind since it was the debut of our magazine, Progressive Cattle, to the national audience.

Agricultural and commerce groups celebrated a Supreme Court ruling on June 28 reducing the power of the federal agencies in determining legal regulations against producers, businesses and farming operations.

U.S. gas and diesel fuel prices stretched into a third consecutive month of spikes, as the weekly regular average price hit $3.591 per gallon on April 9, up more than 50 cents from the $2.944 conventional price on Jan. 15, 2024.

A disruption in distillery inventory in February was one source of gasoline prices spiking after several weeks of gradual decline at the pump.
BP’s refinery in Whiting, Indiana, experienced an unplanned outage in early February and was expected to return to full production in March, according to reporting by Reuters. The plant produces 435,000 barrels per day in regular operations.

The Jan. 31 U.S. Cattle report showed the overall beef cattle inventory dropped another 2% below 2023, down to 87.2 million head. The beef cow numbers also dropped 2% to 28.2 million head.

The history of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also commonly named mad cow disease, began in the mid-1980s and even lingers today.

We here in Idaho should stop all the anti-California rancor of late. California has in fact a lot to do with Idaho’s economic rise.