For five decades, my family has been ranching in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Nearly every one of those years we’ve taken in stocker cattle for our custom grazing business.
More than $170,000 has been donated to help ranchers in Kansas and Oklahoma who were affected by the Anderson Creek Fire. In addition to the monetary donations, there have been convoys of hay, pallets of T-posts and lots of labor donated to assist fellow cattle producers.
Native bluestem pasture in Kansas has fallen in price the last two years for many producers renting grass, but the rates are still significantly higher than six years ago.
Warm weather is coming and that means cattle producers grazing wheat in the Southern Plains have a decision to make: should they stay or should they go?
Feedyards found plenty of economic incentive to feed cattle to heavier weights last year, the results displayed in record carcass weights and dismal profits
