Rancher
Once a stockman is hired and gets good at their job, it’s hard to keep them because of the low pay and long workdays. For every rural stock person available, there are two job openings.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who has been vegan for more than 20 years, says he can’t endorse any plant-based meat substitutes currently on the market.
Veterinarians have seen a spike in confirmed cases of anthrax this summer in various regions of the country.
The fire at Tyson’s beef plant was much like throwing a rock into a pond resulting in a big initial splash and ripple effects spreading in all directions. The initial splash included a dramatic set of market reactions.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday the four remaining members of the OPT wolf pack in eastern Washington’s Ferry County had been killed.
N3 Cattle Company, Livermore, CA, at 50,500 acres, spans parts of four counties and is on the market for the first time in 85 years.
The family operation, Jim O’Haco Cattle Company, began in 1898 and spans roughly 60,000 acres. It has invested in 42 miles of buried pipeline for precision water delivery and restoration of grazing land.
A leader of the small, armed group of people occupying a remote national wildlife preserve in Oregon said Tuesday they will go home when a plan is in place to turn over management of federal lands to locals.
Ranchers weigh options on replacement heifers amid historic high prices.
While most agricultural tourists responding to a Purdue University survey indicated that agriculture is an important industry, those who said they had visited a livestock farm tended to have concerns about how animal fe
A Las Vegas judge on Friday entered not guilty pleas for the last five defendants to be arraigned over a high-profile standoff about cattle grazing rights between armed protesters and federal agents at the Nevada ranch
Is fat a bad word? Not necessarily. Simply put, fat is just the body’s storage form of energy. If an animal consumes more energy than it uses, the excess calories will be stored as fat - money in the bank to
You gotta love Australians. They never lamb alone. Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), the organization of livestock producers down under, thumbs their collective noses at any PC ideas. MLA launched a new ad ahead of Aust
It took Congress 352 days into the year to define tax laws for 2015. Welcome to expertly run America.
A new online tool can help landowners and land managers better understand their land.
We imagine a connoisseur might describe it as “steely, with a hint of barnyard.” If you fancy a glass of well-aged camel urine, don’t.
Most areas of Oklahoma have had adequate summer forage to allow pregnant replacement heifers to be in excellent body condition going into late fall and winter. Now producers are faced with the challenge of maintain
Justin Dlomo watches his small herd of emaciated cattle scrounge for bits of dry grass with a growing sense of dread. “I don’t even know what to do anymore,” he says. Worsening drought in Zimbabwe has dried up water hol
Starting in 2017, livestock producers will need to obtain a written order from their veterinarian before buying certain antibiotics for their animals.
“Neonatal” calf diarrhea is defined as scours occurring within the first 3 weeks of a calf’s life. Bacteria, viruses and parasites can attack the lining of the calf’s intestine and cause diarrhea. The
Integrated pest management is commonplace for controlling crop pests and similar concepts apply to controlling livestock pests including using the right type of control at the right time for the right duration.
After writing a bad check for $300,000 to buy cattle, a man in Minnesota has plead guilty to his crime.
A lot of ranchers have trouble gathering their cattle. If done properly, however, one or two people can gather even large pastures in one day and miss none.
Driving pairs deserves special attention because this could be one of the top cattle handling problem on ranches. Everyone has trouble, at least sometimes.
Wildlife officials have confirmed that a grizzly bear is responsible for killing a calf in central Montana.
A rancher estimates that $75,000 worth of bred heifers were stolen from his property east of Denver.