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From balancing cull cow economics to managing residue grazing risks, here is your essential checklist to protect profit margins and herd health this fall.

Cattle futures ran into chart resistance after new highs for the move on Thursday and on live cattle the market tested the long term trend line.

A beef-on-dairy calf is not simply a dairy calf that happens to enter the beef chain. Its early nutrition should prepare it for the production system that comes next.

With reauthorized funding under S. 2398 and a White House directive targeting pests and tick-borne threats like theileriosis and alpha-gal, vector control takes center stage in Washington.

First published in 2001, John Nalivka’s analysis shows why mandatory origin labeling threatens consumer demand, ignores grinding beef economics, and invites unintended regulatory burdens.

A one-stop app connects livestock sale barns, order buyers and cow-calf producers with comprehensive consignment data and market intelligence.

Retained ownership data shows management can help cattle express genetic potential and improve ranch returns.

With cull values down $30/cwt in some regions, cow-calf producers must balance forage reserves against feeding thin cows for winter rebound.