Drovers
Just like a reputable seedstock operation is not built overnight, it takes time to put together an effective marketing plan.
Cattle futures have taken another turn over the past two weeks as prices have drifted lower, correcting the big December 17-24 advance.
The stock market is off to a dismal start in 2016. Hopefully, this isn’t a sign of a weakening economy.
As you make plans for this year, decide now to schedule time that will be spent working on the business in the year ahead.
So, you thought all you had to do was breed quality genetics? Wrong. You have to market them, too.
The first few days an animal spends in a feedlot are critical to their health and overall performance through the feeding period.
Given developments in multiple financial markets it is useful to pause and appreciate the broader situation underpinning the start of 2016 “outside” of the cattle markets to further assess possible upcoming changes within the cattle complex.
The next step in optimizing your marketing efforts is to know details about who you are trying to reach.
What goes up must come down! That is exactly what has happened to cattle prices, but the task now is determining where the market is headed in 2016 and beyond.
The Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University and the Kansas Beef Council are partnering to host three additional advanced beef cattle care and health training sessions throughout Kansas during February.
Knowing current average expected progeny difference values for bulls is critical.
The Red Angus Association of America recently acquired a major share in Top Dollar Angus, Inc. RAAA President Kim Ford made the announcement at BrainTrust during the Red Angus activities held in conjunction with the National Western Stock Show.
A leader of the small, armed group of people occupying a remote national wildlife preserve in Oregon said Tuesday they will go home when a plan is in place to turn over management of federal lands to locals.
Winter storm Goliath left a wave of dead and stray beef cattle in its wake as the blizzard pushed across the Panhandle region of Texas last week.
Cattle markets in 2015 transitioned from what 2014 was to more like what 2016 will be.
The last two years have been a whirlwind of dramatic extremes for the cattle industry.
One of the downfall’s to mud is the increase in energy requirement for cattle to navigate the terrain.
As calving season looms in the not so distant future, the first things that come to my mind is considering plans for pre-calving vaccination of pregnant cows, and thinking about controlling calf scours.
The American Gelbvieh Association elected directors and officers for 2016 during its national convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
Cattle and lesser prairie-chickens both need healthy rangeland to thrive. Through voluntary conservation efforts, farmers and ranchers in the southern Great Plains can restore habitat for this iconic bird while strengthening working lands.
If our nation’s consumers can limp along and hold this bedraggled economy to its walker, beef should have a chance to make that decent recovery.
Cattle health following Winter Storm Goliath will continue to be a concern for producers.
Fed cattle prices are higher for the second week in a row.
Supplementation may be necessary to achieve desired calf development and subsequent lactation.
“The bottom line is that we ended an era and started a new one,” said Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group in Chicago, speaking on Farm Journal Radio with Pam Fretwell. “We’ve ended 10 years of zero interest rates. ... That rodeo is over.”
Average per head price of $2,889 at the Joplin Show-Me-Select Sale.
An Iowa farmer has found a niche market for his beef.
South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals reported 245,000 cattle on feed on December 1, up 4 percent from last year.