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Calves are most successful in transitioning off the farm when they’ve had good care, are current on their vaccinations, and have been exposed to the challenges of a changing diet.

Links of the food supply chain, especially the meat supply, are regaining strength after periods of uncertainty during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, once again instilling consumer confidence.

Another incidence of senseless killing of cattle has occurred, this time in Arkansas.

Windrow grazing annual forages allows producers to cut the crop at an optimum time for quality and increase harvest efficiency through strip grazing the windrows.

Fall is the ideal time to treat many weeds on the noxious thistle list, including musk thistle.

Wisconsin beef processor Strauss Brands is seeking approval to build a new 152,000 square-foot packing facility that will process between 250 and 500 head per day.

“For too long, cow-calf producers across the nation have marketed our cattle with one hand tied behind our back. The culprit has been an ever-growing lack of price discovery.”

Continuing COVID-19 impacts, global recession, political tensions and exchange rates will all be important in determining global beef trade in the coming weeks and months.

The Purebred Beef Unit at Kansas State University offers undergraduate students an opportunity to gain hands-on experience that is directly applicable when they go out into the industry.

Ensuring calf health from day one spells success later – in performance and quality. Zoetis veterinarian Mark Alley shares why it’s important to have a prevention and treatment plan ready.