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09/22/2025
Hours ago, Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) confirmed a new case of New World screwworm (NWS) in Sabinas Hidalgo, located in the state of Nuevo León, less than 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
This is now the northernmost detection of NWS during this outbreak, and the one most threatening to the American cattle and livestock industry. Sabinas Hidalgo is located near the major highway from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, to Laredo, Texas, which is one of the most heavily trafficked commercial thoroughfares in the world.
Read the full press release from USDA APHIS here 👇
It was a historic couple of days in Manhattan, Montana at the Churchill Cattle Co. "World Class" Dispersal! View a more detailed sale report, highlighted by 425 Lots averaging $24,504 (Gross: $10,414,200) ➡️ http://bit.ly/4pPn9p8
Congratulations to Dale and Nancy Venhuizen and the entire Churchill Cattle Company crew!
09/19/2025
The Biden Era Public Lands Rule placed conservation “on equal footing with other multiple uses…” on public lands, such as energy development, grazing, and recreation. The Secretary of the Interior has announced a proposal to rescind the Public Lands Rule. Comments are now being accepted on the Federal Register with a deadline of November 10, 2025. Find the link to submit your comment and more details here 👇
The Public Lands Rule Status is open for public comment now through November 10.
09/18/2025
Drum roll please. . .🥁
The 85th annual Herd Reference magazine has been sent to the printers and will be mailed to your doors October 2! Here is a sneak peak preview of the front cover with photo credit to one of last year's photo contest finalists, Patricia Molinaro. This year it is a whopping 272 pages. A huge thank you to our staff for putting this all together.
Our featured ranches this year are Circle L Angus, CK Cattle, Colyer Herefords & Angus, Cross Diamond Cattle Company, Gateway Simmental, Hornung Livestock, Largent and Sons, Pelton Polled Herefords, Pine Coulee Angus, RBM Livestock, Small Livestock-Charolais Bulls, Sunny Okanogan Angus Ranch, Tehama Angus Ranch, Thomas Herefords, Vollmer Angus Ranch, and Weber Land & Cattle.
09/18/2025
What are your cow kids and ranchers-in-training doing this fall? Submit your agri-kid to [email protected] to be featured in the paper and get a FREE t-shirt!
📷 Agri-kid, Natalee Niederegger, from Harlem, Montana, roping and dragging calves for branding on the ranch. She is nine years old, and she has wanted to rope and drag calves since she was just a small fry. After lots of years of practice and persistence, it paid off. Dreams come true with hard work! Photo courtesy of Brittany Niederegger.
09/17/2025
It’s a special day at BLS this Thursday! We’re starting with weigh ups at 9am and the Calves to Cure DMD Benefit beginning at 1pm. For more info on that, visit https://cureduchenne.org/calvestocure/ or visit with Paul Heaton at 406.660.1208.
09/14/2025
Find a national wildfire outlook and what the September outlook is at the link below👇
Above average September wildfires expected looking at a nationwide wildfire outlook.
Thank you Mark,Paul,Karen and Mya for having me on the 10 to 9 thing to talk about Duchenne and the sale. Cat Country 102.9
09/09/2025
Montana has increased its wolf take quota. Read what the new quota is here 👇
Montana increases their wolf take quota.
09/05/2025
The California Cattlemen's Cattle-PAC Dinner, Dance, and Auction brought ranchers together and raised nearly $250,000 for Cattle-PAC. Read about the event, the auction, and how Cattle-PAC supports California ranchers here 👇 https://bit.ly/45PKhvH
📷 by Katie Roberti
California Cattlemen's Association
The Cattle-PAC Dinner, Dance, and Auction brought ranchers together and raised important funds.
09/01/2025
Toole County Cloverbud leader, Barb Larsen, has created a unique opportunity for Cloverbuds. Read about these Cloverbuds and their chickens here 👇
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Today, Western Ag Reporter (WAR) is one of the largest weekly livestock newspapers. We predominately cover 14 Northwestern states but are read from coast to coast, border to border and even in a number of foreign countries. The WAR tells it like it is while also valuing its readers and their opinions. We strive to be "all the news a busy rancher has time to read."
The WAR wasn’t always so named, it began as the Western Livestock Reporter (WLR) on September 6, 1940 in the Old Union Stockyards, Spokane, Washington. Norman Warsinke started the WLR at only eight pages with a year’s subscription valued at $1.
The WLR was established "to supply an accurate weekly source of information" about commercial cattle markets in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Wyoming. Soon after the growing purebred industry of the Northwest needed a voice too, adding to the content of the paper. On January 15, 1941 Warsinke started the weekly front page column, “Comments,” he addressed current issues. Warsinke moved the WLR to Billings, Montana December 2, 1941.
In February of 1957, Warsinke added young Pat Goggins as a fieldman. Soon after, Goggins’ column “As I Saw It” appeared on the second page. It moved to the front page on April 12, 1961 with Pat’s purchase of the WLR.
Agri-News made its debut, in 1968 to fulfill the need for more agriculture, commercial crop and livestock news. Goggins twin sons joined the family businesses in 1989, Joe at the Public Auction Yards and John as WLR staff. At the beginning of 1994 Warsinke’s “Comments” column was brought off the shelf and gained a new home on page five of the WLR with its new author, John.
In 2008, the increasing costs of production and distribution lead to the merging of WLR and Agri-News into the Western Ag Reporter (WAR) with John stepping up to general manager.
Seven short years later “As I Saw It” was retired with the passing of Pat Goggins, John ascended to the position as the publisher moving “Comments” from page five to the front page.
