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When cows get below their lower critical temperature and get into cold stress, they can adapt by increasing feed consumption to increase their basal metabolic rate and increase heat of fermentation.
Consumers want to know how beef production contributes to environmental sustainability. AHA-CSU research aims to identify genetic traits that influence cattle’s environmental footprint.
Ranchers Alan and Elizabeth Mitchell, Bennion Ranch, Vernon, Utah, received the award at the Utah Farm Bureau’s Annual Meeting in Provo.
A combination of factors has contributed to increasing feedlot placements the past two months, including drought and increasing imports. But biggest factor is likely that producers are taking advantage of strong prices.
Friday’s COF placement numbers provided a friendly lean to a market that has suffered consecutive weeks of falling futures and lower cash bids. Sellers hope to leverage the short week ahead with higher asking prices.
Prices for market-ready cattle have tumbled $7 to $8 per cwt. since the beginning of the month even as supplies remain relatively tight. Volatility continues in the futures market.
These four measurements can help you determine what your herd needs are for additional nutrition.
The Beef Improvement Federation will host a Genetic Prediction Workshop next month in Kansas City.
A Texas A&M AgriLife project will feed omega-6 and omega 3 fatty acids to beef cattle to determine what role they may play in managing early embryonic loss.
Cash cattle prices decline 3% for the week as December Live Cattle futures hit a five-month low and nearby feeder futures post seven-month low.
Capturing true value discovery of feeder cattle through genetic merit could become a watershed moment for the U.S. beef industry.
While there are many factors that weigh into creating a treatment regimen, understanding the different classes of antibiotics and how they work is important to ensure your cattle are getting the best treatment response.
All forages packaged in large round bales benefit from protection and proper storage practices.
Cash fed cattle prices have increased 4.8% during the month of November in the past five years, yet carcass cutout values have begun the month in a bit of defensive pattern.
Scientists have reported on Ohio’s first known established population of Asian longhorned ticks, and are now conducting research focused on monitoring and managing the pests.
Connecting agriculture with science helps STEM educators foster a new generation of consumers who are better informed about beef and beef production.
Low stress weaning techniques can pay dividends to producers adding value through a preconditioning program.
Association leadership selected for 2024 at the Annual Convention of Delegates in Orlando, Florida.
USDA’s regular October reports provided insight about future beef production. Any thoughts of herd restocking that may have existed earlier have been put on hold for now.
Newly launched course educates producers in ecosystem management for more sustainable and profitable ranching.
The American Angus Association concludes 2023 as the ninth-consecutive year of more than 300,000 registrations and an additional 138,377 transfers.
Cash trade was light as many cattle feeders passed on steady bids. Feeder cattle and calves traded mixed. Live and feeder futures contracts posted weekly gains.
Reducing dependence on feeds and susceptibility to poor weather or market conditions, there is growing interest in developing replacement heifers at a lower cost without compromising reproductive performance.
What did it cost to produce a calf and maintain a cow in your operation over the past year?
A large contract foodservice company claims the nation’s largest beef packers conspired to fix prices and drive up profit margins from 2015 through 2021.
Expert panel will discuss biggest challenges facing global prairies, rangelands and railways and highlight solutions that benefit nature and society.
Beef’s critics see an industry that is corrupt and/or broken with NCBA and packers padding their pockets. The facts tell a different story. Beef is winning the marketplace…and it’s not even close.
Setting stocking rates on wheat pasture in the fall and winter has large impacts on performance of growing calves and can have large influences on productivity of pastures during the spring.
Over the course of 20 years, the Sidwells transformed an arid landscape at JX Ranch that was over-grazed and over-run by invasive species.
A Wyoming legislator proposed issuing an unlimited number of elk permits to ranchers in an effort to reduce the overpopulation of elk in eastern Wyoming.