A federal report says the nation’s cattle herd hasn’t been as small as it is now since 1952, and that likely will lead to years of higher retail beef prices.
The January head count of 90.7 million on farms and ranches was 3 percent lower than one year ago, according to Friday’s cattle inventory report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
Fewer Americans own homes and many of them are continuing to see values decline. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the nation's homeownership rate fell to 66% in the fourth quarter, continuing a seven-year drop from a fourth-quarter peak of 69.2% in 2004. At the...
After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years. Scientists are enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there but are...
