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How Kentucky stocker John Sparks turns discounted 3-weights into bulletproof, feedlot-ready yearlings.

The legislation creates an on-farm processing exemption for small-scale farmers and ranchers, opening up affordable, direct farm-to-table meat sales.

At K-State’s Gardiner Lecture, Nutrition Scientist Yanni Papanikolaou explains how gold-standard modeling disproved headline-grabbing anti-meat studies — and why beef is vital in the GLP-1 era.

Why combining economic selection indexes and comprehensive herd health is critical for long-term returns.

With high fertilizer costs squeezing margins, winter bale placement can turn wasted manure into evenly distributed spring pasture growth.

Documenting pasture moves does more than preserve historical records — it unlocks hidden forage potential, takes the emotion out of culling decisions, and proves stewardship to downstream buyers.

Last week the live and feeder cattle futures technically looked promising says Joe Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek, but then the market posted lower weekly closes.

A nursing calf is not always a protected calf. Research shows up to 34.5% suffer from failed passive transfer — and targeted intervention in the first four hours can change the math.