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Performance Livestock Analytics (PLA) and Top Dollar Angus are partnering to help seedstock and commercial cattlemen simplify data entry and capture more value from their management decisions.

The informal fraternity of livestock fieldmen, auctioneers, sale managers and livestock business leaders met for their 55th Annual Banquet at the National Western Club on Jan. 18th, inducting three to its Hall of Fame.

U.S. beef exports were down year-over-year in 2019 but could see a bump this year. Imports in 2019 were up slightly compared to the previous year.

Packers didn’t show much interest in pursuing additional inventory last week, and the result was a cash market that traded $1 lower.

USDA’s annual Cattle report revealed slightly lower cattle numbers, but the decline was not as large as some analysts expected.

You can’t look at a pen of feedyard cattle and know which ones have liver abscesses. Even technologies like ultrasound or blood tests don’t uncover it, but it costs the industry $60 million annually.

GrowSafe Systems Ltd. announced the inaugural release of The 2020 Top 150 Proven Bulls, which includes all bulls with a 0.6 accuracy rating for their RFI EPD.

Jim Thomas of O Lazy Y Ranch in Guthrie, Oklahoma, was inducted into the American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) Hall of Fame for 2020.

Despite the industry’s efforts, calf scours remain a major challenge for unweaned calves. Even with all the tools producers use to combat the disease, no significant reduction in scour-related illnesses have been seen

When it comes to scour prevention, what we’ve been doing for years — vaccinating cows prior to calving — has not been very successful: rates of neonatal calf scours have shown little improvement.