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As a seventh-generation family operation, Red Hill Farms has focused on incorporating technology that allows them to produce quality livestock and provide the best selection tools to their customers.
Marbling, a lifetime event from ranch to rail, connects producers and consumers. The first installment in a partnership with Drovers where the CAB team will dig deeper into the quest for quality in beef production.
Before purchasing a new ag technology, put the technology to the test and know it’s potential impact on you and your operation.
Having faith and patience, and seeking help from mentors helped first-generation Kentucky cattleman start farming full time.
Seeing a need in the community of Steele, N.D., to provide meat processing to local farmers and ranchers, NoDak Meats focuses on custom processing for beef and hogs, deer and game, emergency kills and retail meat.
Why are we losing cattle producers and cattle in the face of all the positive economic factors, asks the R-CALF CEO?
Even with currently low prices for carbon, the reality is that operations are playing a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Genetic progress has led to a significant increase in the number of carcasses grading high Choice and Prime over the past decade. It is not a matter of luck, but the result of hard work and dedication.
Little change was found for livestock feeders last week as near identical week-to-week market prices held margins solidly in the black. Beef packers saw modest improvement with higher wholesale beef prices.
Aside from the added carcass tonnage, the leap in carcass weights - driven by extra days on feed - has generated a noted shift in carcass marbling and quality grade achievement.
Formulating your farm’s succession plan is likely not a straight line. Polly Dobbs, an Indiana attorney who is part of a seven-generation farm family, says it’s important to stay focused on your end goals.
Rancher and four others consumed meat from a butchered lamb but only the rancher became ill, CDC says.
USDA offers educational events for cattle producers and feeders who want a better understanding of factors contributing to the market value of cattle, and how these factors can inform marketing and production decisions.
Increased steer and heifer carcass weights are offsetting decreased slaughter to result in a fractional increase in fed beef production for the year to date with significant increases in recent weeks.
AngusLink’s Genetic Merit Scorecard adds a fourth score option to demonstrate the maternal weaned calf value to aid in the selection of replacement females.
When moisture and soil nutrients are readily available, sorghum-sudangrass and pearl millet can produce up to 6 tons of forage per acre during the growing season.
Heat stress becomes a problem for cattle encountering hot temperatures, low wind speeds and other summer weather conditions. K-State beef extension Veterinarian AJ Tarpoff explains the remedies available to producers.
Packers reluctant bidders as futures remain significantly discounted to cash. Feedyards content with standoff late in the week.
Beef is winning, and camera grading in packing plants is helping ensure the quality and consistency specific brands require is being met. That, in turn, is helping beef gain market share.
Consider who your ideal buyer is, what type of cattle they need and why your cattle are valuable to them.
Rancher Gayel Alexander is following the climate-smart money, partnering with Farm Journal’s Connected Ag Project, to maximize forage and profitability.
An incessant focus on imports and haste to declare the beef industry’s demise has protectionists leaning on the sheep industry as a business case study. With all due respect to sheep producers, the analogy isn’t close.
CRISPR technology has many potential applications that facilitate sustainability, animal welfare and efficiency for the beef industry.
Research finds link between gestational nutrition from minerals and higher weaning weights.
The new Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein will be located in Raleigh, NC, on the campus of North Carolina State University.
Most international trade is imperfect, Bill Bullard says, and can be both beneficial and detrimental to the wellbeing of our U.S. cattle and sheep industries.
Theileria orientalis Ikeda is a tickborne infection, and when identified in United States herds has been associated with the Asian longhorned tick, a relatively new tick species in the United States.
With less drought in the U.S. than at any time since April 2020, pasture and range conditions are generally good. What might that mean for heifer retention?
Cash prices leaked $1 lower but Friday evening trades suggest packers still scramble to meet their needs and are willing to add freight to do so.
Fed cattle trade lower for first time since mid-April; feeder cattle, wholesale beef prices continue push higher. Holiday beef clearance called good among strong demand.