A new report looks at how incorporating cover crops into an integrated crop-livestock system with cattle, such as by grazing or harvesting the cover crops for forage, might improve the profitability of cover-cropping and livestock production.

The presence of a federally declared weather or environmental disaster increases the chance of reduced slaughter volumes and the size of the reduction, as well as the probability of plants shutting down.

The total cash receipts for Virginia commodities in 2022 were $5.05 billion, which includes $3.4 billion for animals and products.