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Cattle feeders first began using mass treatments for newly arrived calves back in the 1970s, as a means of controlling outbreaks of respiratory disease or “shipping fever.”

Both cash fed cattle and feeder cattle posted gains for the week ending Sept. 27, while wholesale beef prices saw significant declines.

When loads of stressed, high-risk calves arrive at the feedlot, it often makes economic sense to treat them all with antibiotics to prevent an almost-inevitable outbreak of bovine respiratory disease (BRD).

With seven weeks passed since the fire at Tyson’s Finney County, Kan. plant, the impacts and resulting ripple effects are clearer now and are fading as expected.

Tom Jones and his Hy-Plains Feedyard team keep feeding, learning and showing the way to better.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt addressed economic impacts to ranchers and the importance of grazing to land management in his remarks to the Public Lands Council on Friday.

The FDA has awarded two $250,000 grants to fund research projects in fiscal year 2019 to help target and define durations of use for certain medically important antimicrobial drugs administered in animal feed.

The Nobel Ranch, Yuma, Colo., received the Certified Angus Beef ® 2019 Commercial Commitment to Excellence Award during the brand’s annual conference in Asheville, N.C.

The Red Angus Association Commercial Producer of the Year Award is presented to producers who successfully utilize Red Angus genetics on their farm or ranch.

Fifth-generation Wyoming rancher Kacy Atkinson says it’s time for cattlemen to stop the infighting and begin to understand the real issues affecting the beef industry.