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Ranchers in South Dakota are still waiting to see if they will receive any federal aid after losing cattle in an October blizzard.
There are herds of cattle on a pair of remote Alaska islands that have survived for decades despite any number of threats to their existence.
Under the “Fresh From Florida” marketing campaign offered by the state’s agriculture officials to stores and consumers, people are encouraged to buy things that are grown and raised in the Sunshine State, but beef isn’t one of those products, yet.
A Nevada judge ordered a 21-year-old Elko man to serve three years’ probation and pay $1,450 restitution for killing and butchering a rancher’s cow, but not before she lectured him about the cruelty of the senseless crime.
Knowing when to cull open or problem cows can help bring in some additional profit.
The Indiana Beef Cattle Association and Purdue Extension will host 10 meetings around the state in December and January to give cattle producers the latest industry information.
High daily temperatures at 20 and 30 degrees confirm the arrival of winter. A week or more of cold temperatures, particularly below freezing, can take a toll on the cow herd.
Milk is clearly a good thing in the beef cowherd. Heavier milking cows produce heavier calves. But at what cost?
The feed cost environment for 2013-2014 is dramatically different compared to last year.
More than 450 bred cattle and 150 heifer calves have been donated to South Dakota ranchers who lost livestock in the rare blizzard, the Rapid Journal reports. The cows have come from at least 10 states and 300 donors.
Feed and forage represents your largest annual production costs, and they provide the greatest opportunity for you to make significant changes in a short period of time.
There are a lot of concerns and mixed messages about hormones in beef. There are a few things to keep in mind the next time you hear that beef contains too many hormones.
Heading into the winter months, cattle producers should give careful attention to adequate nutrition of beef cattle.
Montana ranchers have donated 45 head of cattle for breeding stock to their South Dakota counterparts who lost thousands of cattle in a freak blizzard in October.
If there are any lessons that can be learned from the past few years of sparse rainfall it’s that recovering from drought requires proper management.
Life Technologies hosts event with state veterinarians to explore finding common ground on regulation harmonization and diagnostic testing standardization of trichomoniasis.
Johnson County Associate Circuit Judge Garrett R. Crouch II found Republican Rep. Warren Love, of Osceola, guilty of misdemeanor animal abuse last month in St. Clair County, but he set that judgment aside Monday.
A Klamath Falls, Ore., rancher and the Union Pacific have settled a legal battle over 24 cattle of an ancient breed that were hit by a train and killed.
EPDs are our best selection tools, particularly as producers are hearing a lot about genomics right now.
Russia wants to rebuild its beef industry and state officials from Kansas, Montana and South Dakota visited the country in the hopes of selling genetics.
The Montana Farm Bureau has dropped out of a lawsuit that seeks to block bison from roaming outside Yellowstone National Park.
The King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management is offering a new joint program with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association that will help recognize and cultivate future leaders of the beef industry.
Thirteen ranching and agricultural professionals received the Texas AgFinance Certificate in Advanced Ranch Management at the 10th Annual Holt Cat Symposium on Excellence in Ranch Management.
The beef export market remains on an upward trend while pork exports are down slightly.
Wolf pack numbers in the Blackfoot River watershed northeast of Missoula, Mont., have grown from one in 2007 to at least a dozen this year, but there has been little impact on ranches in the region.
As you rush to sort calves in the light of high calf prices, be careful with the ladies in the lot.
Ranchers in South Dakota are finding ways to persevere after October’s early blizzard.
Two cattle headed to a New Jersey slaughterhouse this week had other plans.
A crime that was at the center of many Western movies is thriving in modern-day California as reports of cattle rustling are on the rise, state livestock officials said.
Landowners and others who opposed transferring Yellowstone National Park bison to Indian reservations in northern Montana have asked a state judge to declare that any bison captured outside the park should be considered livestock rather than wildlife.