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Branding season or pasture turnout is a natural time point that lends itself well to working calves and preparing them for the summer ahead.
A critical component of reproductive success is having sound, highly fertile bulls.
The sale of fall-calving, Show-Me-Select beef heifers will begin at 7 p.m. on May 15 at Joplin Regional Stockyards near Carthage, Mo.
The point and challenge is that beef producers need to have a plan. In other words, it is the process of slowly changing stocking rates to reflect the changing plant communities in response to changing moisture supplies.
Beef and cattle prices both fall.
Cattle prices are up, but beef prices are down.
The beef industry stands alone in 2015 in its continued reduction in supplies available to consumers.
Beef producers learn updates to cow-calf management systems.
High cattle prices make it important to prevent stocker cattle from having bovine respiratory disease (BRD).
The 2015 spring bull breeding soundness clinics found 14.5 percent of the screened bulls to be unsatisfactory as potential breeders to be placed in with cows or heifers this spring.