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A long-delayed spring grass-growing season with frequent rains didn’t give days for making hay. Regrowth season just ahead holds promise, says a University of Missouri forage specialist.
As attention to alternative protein grows, China could hold the answer to whether it’s a growing market that could eat away at demand for traditional meat sources. John Phipps explains in Customer Support.
Memorial Day festivities are the official start to summer, and a major time for beef consumption. May is Beef Month and National Barbecue Month—all fabulous reasons to promote the beef industry.
A Kansas City-based cattle company is 100% veteran owned and operated, raising Wagyu beef. Owner Patrick Montgomery decided to use his military past to help provide other veterans with a fresh start.
Early and correct identification of pasture weeds is the first step in maintaining a healthy pasture.
Drovers columnist Jared Wareham: Marketing flexibility represents a growing part of feedyards’ feeder cattle buying strategy.
The 65th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course is set for Aug. 5-7, 2019, at Texas A&M University in College Station.
Japan on Friday lifted longstanding restrictions on U.S. beef in an agreement announced by USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue. The move is expected to pave the way for expanded sales to the U.S.’s top beef export market.
Voting on Facebook is now open! It will close Monday, May 27, 2019, at midnight.
An Alberta, Canada, rancher rescued a missing calf that had slipped into a badger hole in one his pastures.
Tyson Foods demonstrated progress and increased sustainability across key sustainability measures with the release of its 2018 sustainability report.
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) livestock inspectors discovered fever ticks on cattle originating from a Webb County premises during a routine voluntary inspection.
Producers considering the use of this synchronization tool should remember that a number of factors affect pregnancy rate including cow body condition score, plane of nutrition, cattle health, and bull fertility.
Fly control needs to be considered whether in a dry lot or grazing.
A wide varieties of decision tools are available to help the rancher make the decisions.
The horn fly spends most of its time on cattle, mainly on the animal’s backs, sides and when temperatures are very warm, on the belly region.
Composting can reduce the concentration of antibiotics in cattle manure, but the degree of that reduction can vary depending on how it is tested.
Activist groups have filed suit against the BLM in an effort to prevent Hammond Ranches, Steven Hammond (second from left) and Dwight Hammond (fourth from left), from renewing their grazing permits.
It is imperative that the landlord and tenant talk about any remedies to the lease prior to the start of the grazing season.
These programs are not meant to take the place of on-the-ground monitoring and management, but they provide tools for the rancher tool kit to assist in the adaptive management of rangelands.
While the beef industry has seen growing demand, developments mostly driven by environmental activists still loom over the industry like a gray cloud.
For the first quarter of 2019, U.S. beef exports were slightly below last year’s record pace, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
Toxins produced by blue-green algae in the presence of chemical runoff, rainfall and hot temperatures can be fatal to cattle.
Now is a good time to assess both cow body condition and feed resources and develop a plan to provide adequate nutrition to meet cow needs.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, the Center for Food Security and Public Health and Iowa State University will host the free workshop.
Just about every cattle producer with a pickup truck also has a stock trailer to connect to it, but many don’t give their trailer a lot of thought.
Ranchers along the U.S.-Mexico border say the disease carried by fever ticks has devastated their operations.
In a unique advertising campaign, an iconic American fast-food restaurant plans to keep its sandwiches veggie-free, but will help plant 10 million vegetables in community gardens.
During the recent Academy of Veterinary Consultants (AVC) Spring Conference in Omaha, Stuart Heller, a sales manager with Neogen, reminded veterinarians that animals drink about twice what they eat.
A letter to members of the American Angus Association announces the resignation of its CEO.