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Weaning time is right around the corner for spring born calves. Did you know preconditioning them for at least 45 days can help ensure optimum health and performance?

Managing calves through weather swings can be a daunting task. You can help get calves ready for performance success by making sure their mothers are in shape at calving time.

“Suck it up buttercup.” This familiar phrase is one many farmers and ranchers learn early in life: be tough, self-reliant and resilient. But experts say that approach doesn’t work when dealing with stress.

Feed costs are on the rise for many cattle producers, a situation they haven’t faced for several years.

Beef may be in high demand but cattle prices struggle to hold steady. Fed cattle slipped $1 to $2 lower last week and auction prices for feeder cattle fell $1 to $5 lower, AMS reporters said.

The burgers at Bambino’s restaurant in Ossian have been named Iowa’s Best Burgers by the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association, funded in part by the Iowa Beef Industry Council.

Care in how large, round bales are stored outside can minimize losses.

The federal government is facing another lawsuit over The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. A group of farmers from five states claim they’re ineligible for loan forgiveness program because they’re white.

Ample supplies of fed cattle continue to hang over the market as feedlots struggle to get more current. Beef packers have very large margins and appear to be trying to push kills in the face of limited capacity.