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Integrating crop and livestock enterprises represents an incredible competitive advantage for farmers and ranchers.
American Angus Association year-end figures show strong growth for the breed.
When feed costs are too high, consider selling the higher-maintenance cows.
Checking cows’ body condition scores, evaluating bulls and vaccinating against diseases are good management steps in the fall.
You can use the assessment to set benchmarks and goals for the operation and your employees strive to maintain or reach.
Nutrition and production are among the issues highlighted in the 2015 North Dakota Beef Report.
Calf Crop Percentage may be the most important production calculation that a cow/calf producer can record.
Grazing calves on corn residue and providing supplemental distillers grains is a cost effective way to add value to weaned calves.
Next month Colorado State University will host the Range Beef Cow Symposium for the first time since 2007.
Fed cattle prices have declined sharply since early September.
The choice retail beef price declined for the fourth consecutive month to $6.23 per pound in September.
A bison ranch in the Dakotas that has been a source of frustration for other ranchers in the area failed to sell at auction over the weekend.
Rancher Bill Edwards is fighting an enemy that threatens to overrun his Flint Hills pastures, robbing his cattle of nutritious grasses and leaving the meadowlarks, box turtles, bobwhite quail and other wildlife in the same native prairies without suitable habitat.
Preconditioning is a set of management decisions relating to vaccination, weaning, nutrition and housing that maximize health and future growth potential of cattle in the feed yard.
Preconditioning is a set of management decisions relating to vaccination, weaning, nutrition and housing that maximize health and future growth potential of cattle in the feed yard.
A small herd of Tauros was introduced to a Czech sanctuary to join wild horses and help them improve local biodiversity.
It appears the world of fitness running and running with cattle have met in the most unlikely of places: New Jersey.
Every rancher wants productive, easy tempered cattle in the pasture and heavy weight calves at weaning. But often the behavior choices of the cattle are directly impacted by the behavior choices of the rancher.
Year-end data proves Herefords are meeting the needs of commercial cattlemen.
Kansas cropland values are slipping, but pasture values up nearly 7 percent.
A ‘wreck’ is bound to happen when dealing with high-risk cattle in the feedlot, but their impact can be reduced.
Determining open cow(s) early allows producers to select the best strategies that targets the highest potential revenue.
Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) LLC experienced a record year of growth during fiscal year 2015 with 51.2 million lb. of product sold — a 2% increase compared to the previous year’s total.
Management tips to help producers maintain and potentially increase production in the cow herd.
A discussion on the successes, challenges, and areas for continued improvement of cattle handling throughout meat processing plants.
Reason and logic in a normal year would indicate prices are near the bottom, but the market could continue to act contra-seasonally and dip further.
Fed cattle prices were sharply lower this week on good volume.
The way to maximize calf weight is knowing and controlling direct and overhead costs incurred up to weaning.