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Cattle return to row crop agriculture

As bull buying season approaches, a K-State cow-calf specialist provides strategies to choose an appropriate herd sire.

The annual Cattle report estimated that total cattle inventories in the U.S. were up 3.2 percent year over year at 92.0 million head.

International markets continue to put a damper on cattle markets as commodity prices tend to follow the international economy for certain durations.

After months of stress, confusion and heartache, the refuge takeover appears to have ended.

More than 100,000 cattle move through the Bluegrass Stockyards each year. The facility has been a mainstay in Central Kentucky since the mid-1930s. Recently a massive fire completely destroyed the location near downtown Lexington, and local producers will feel its absence.

Feedyards found plenty of economic incentive to feed cattle to heavier weights last year, the results displayed in record carcass weights and dismal profits

If old gray corral boards could talk, Johnny Holloway figures they’d have a tale to tell at the stockyards and railroad crossing known as Mossman.

The FBI arrested Cliven Bundy late Wednesday at the Portland International Airport, Portland, Ore.

Finding genetics information on current and previously purchased bulls is easy.