Farm and livestock news: markets, policy, disease watch, herd health and more.
The Farmer's Herd is farm and livestock news for American producers, in a free app built for reading.
WHAT YOU GET
- Markets & Prices: cattle, grain, inputs, and what the reports mean for your margin.
- Policy & Regulation: the farm bill, USDA rules, state law, and trade, explained plainly.
- Disease Watch: outbreaks, quarantines, and biosecurity, from avian flu to screwworm.
- Herd Health: vaccination, parasites, calving, and treating sick stock.
- Pasture & Forage: grazing, hay, water, drought, and soil.
- Equipment: chutes, trailers, fence, and keeping it running.
- Farm Business: land, labor, records, taxes, and succession.
- Farm Life: the parts of it that are not in a manual.
PRACTICAL, SOURCED, NO FLUFF
Every news piece links to its source so you can check it yourself. The how-to pieces come with the numbers: value of gain, nitrate risk after a frost, what a bred cow actually needs in the last 90 days.
COMMUNITY Q&A
Browse questions from producers, answered by producers. Report anything that breaks the community rules right from the app.
THE WEEKLY RUNDOWN
Sign up in the app for one email every Monday with the week's farm and livestock news.
MADE FOR PHONES AND TABLETS
A clean reader on your phone, and two columns of stories on tablets and foldables.
Send us a news tip or a correction from the app. We read everything.
The Farmer's Herd is free and supported by ads. It is published by The Weekend Companies LLC.
What's new
First release of The Farmer's Herd: farm and livestock news, sections, search, community Q&A, and the weekly newsletter.