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Knowing current average expected progeny difference values for bulls is critical.

The Red Angus Association of America recently acquired a major share in Top Dollar Angus, Inc. RAAA President Kim Ford made the announcement at BrainTrust during the Red Angus activities held in conjunction with the National Western Stock Show.

The Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University and the Kansas Beef Council are partnering to host three additional advanced beef cattle care and health training sessions throughout Kansas during February.

The American Gelbvieh Association elected directors and officers for 2016 during its national convention in Kansas City, Missouri.

Cattle and lesser prairie-chickens both need healthy rangeland to thrive. Through voluntary conservation efforts, farmers and ranchers in the southern Great Plains can restore habitat for this iconic bird while strengthening working lands.

If our nation’s consumers can limp along and hold this bedraggled economy to its walker, beef should have a chance to make that decent recovery.

Cattle health following Winter Storm Goliath will continue to be a concern for producers.

So, you thought all you had to do was breed quality genetics? Wrong. You have to market them, too.

The first few days an animal spends in a feedlot are critical to their health and overall performance through the feeding period.

Given developments in multiple financial markets it is useful to pause and appreciate the broader situation underpinning the start of 2016 “outside” of the cattle markets to further assess possible upcoming changes within the cattle complex.