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Significantly higher volumes of Mexican imported feeder cattle were noted the last two weeks of May and throughout June which offset the lower volumes recorded through the first 4.5 months of the year.

A grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will allow North Dakota State University to study four rangeland management strategies that use fire and/or grazing as critical ecosystem processes.

Multiple trait selection is important for economic vitality. In this segment, Dan Loy shares how maternal traits are related to marbling and what that means for cattlemen.

Steers and heifers sold higher at auctions on the Northern Plains, with feeder cattle trading uneven at auctions in the Southeast and South Central regions.

Cattle have an upper critical temperature 20 degrees cooler than humans. When humans are a little uncomfortable at 80 degrees and feel hot at 90 degrees, cattle may well be in the danger zone for extreme heat stress.

The more current status of feedyards in the North has given the regions feeders more opportunity to fight for higher market prices than feeders in the South.

On the one-year anniversary of committing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s Global Compact and the Science Based Targets initiative, Alltech has released its 2020 Sustainability Report.

Producers should be aware of the increased risk of “summer pneumonia” in suckling calves following heat stress. An increased respiratory rate and stress of heat may overwhelm the natural defense mechanisms of the lungs.

As temperatures begin to increase, health officials in several states are warning livestock and pet owners to be aware of dangerous blue-green algae blooms.

A case against the Brazos Valley Groundwater Conservation District went all the way to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. And the decision has far-reaching, positive implications for landowners and cattle raisers.