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Hundreds of Texas farmers and ranchers welcomed the rain and spent a day indoors listening to the latest opportunities in the cattle market, potential for alternative crops, as well as other commodity presentations at the 2014 Blackland Income Growth Conference at the Extraco Events Center in Waco.
Cold dominated the weather reports since Jan. 1 and it has made managing livestock during these frigid times more difficult.
As calving season approaches, think about how to make your job easier and potentially save more calves at calving.
Is deferred grazing the best option for maximum production?
Event helps strategize for future under drought conditions.
A successful breeding season actually begins with management decisions made at calving.
Livestock producers looking to spread manure this winter should look into these resources.
Federal officials have designated portions of 11 western and central states as primary natural disaster areas because of a drought.
A ranchers’ group is opposing the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association’s efforts to double the $1-per-head checkoff, saying increases should be agreed nationwide.
Larkspurs are toxic to cattle, but a group of researchers is looking to genetically select animals that can readily digest the poisonous plant.
As the New Year begins, seedstock producer and exhibition breed sales take center stage.
The canines have been blamed for an assortment of atrocities, from killing livestock to depleting whitetail deer to stealing into suburban neighborhoods and making off with pets.
Landowners in eastern New Mexico say they still have questions over the lesser prairie chicken and its possible listing as a threatened species
Bull selection only requires that one understands or at least appreciates the EPD values and trends within a breed.
But chilly conditions are currently in effect for the Southern Plains & Midwest.
Live cattle futures start 2014 by posting new high on monthly continuation chart.
Cattle should be able to make it through the frigid temperatures and howling winds predicted for the next few days if they have feed, water and shelter, according to South Dakota ranchers.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Environmental Protection Agency work through strained relationships.
The report showed On Feed and Marketings near expectations.
USDA says safeguards in place to guard against FMD.
Pro Farmer’s Julianne Johnston talks 2014 cattle supplies and demand on AgDay.
With beef prices reaching record highs there has also been a rapid increase in stolen cattle for Oklahoma ranchers.
Expectations of tight beef cattle supplies and strong demand move prices higher this fall.
Listen to closing market commentary from your editors.
Says consumers desire labeling and believe the product is safe.