Rancher
Proper hay storage is always important. This year, with limited amounts of harvested forage available and record high prices, it is worth discussing some simple storage practices that can lead to less spoilage.
Whether in the feedlot or out in the pasture, cattle management and handling practices are important considerations for both the animals and employees.
How you feed backgrounded calves may affect how they perform in the feedlot. With higher cattle prices and high input prices this year it’s worth revisiting your backgrounding program.
Prospects for new entrants in a business are generally low if profitability requires economies of scale, large capital investment, and/or high levels of government regulation. The packing business checks all the boxes.
Agricultural law specialist offers considerations for landowners interested in selling carbon credits.
How many steps are in your cattle record-keeping process? Keeping up-to-date records is critical when improving your profitability through breeding stock. However, could extra steps be wasting your time?
Improving feeder futures prices, a stronger fed cattle market and limited supplies of feeder cattle all combined to push prices higher following Thanksgiving.
Cash cattle trades a week following the Thanksgiving rally saw steady prices, but the steadily declining supply of harvest-ready cattle will continue to shift bargaining leverage to producers.
By analyzing expenses of your operation and where you spend your time each day, there may be areas to improve to create a more financially sustainable operation.
It seems likely that many producers have adjusted herd inventories, given hay and feed supplies, to be able get through the winter.
Trust In Beef™ announced Syngenta has joined as a partner of the collaborative value chain program helping ranchers integrate climate-smart agriculture systems into their operations
Agriculture is the seventh-most-hazardous industry in the United States, but ranch owners and operators can take steps to make their working facilities and equipment safer for everyone on the ranch.
Britt Farms of Clifton Hill, Missouri, located in Randolph County, has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Missouri Leopold Conservation Award®.
The NCBA and the Public Lands Council (PLC) announced their opposition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) final rule to list the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act.
How do cattle producers get better? That happens with less social media and more spreadsheets; less pandering and more professionalism; less Matrix and more Moneyball.
Every cowboy has a story about how choices his ancestors made resulted in the life they’re living today. Many of us are thankful for blessings we didn’t recognize as such at the time.
Any discussion about concentration in the beef supply chain needs to include the entire system, not just the packers.
Wheel-View Farm of Shelburne, Massachusetts has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 New England Leopold Conservation Award®.
Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory provides tips, assessments for overwintering livestock.
Improving hay feeding efficiency represents “low-hanging fruit” in many seedstock and commercial operations. Feeding strategies for large round bales can be separated into use of a hay feeder and rolling bales out.
Winter is coming and with it, snow and wind. Cattle and farmsteads both can benefit from proper windbreaks. There are two main types of windbreak function on a farm: livestock wind chill protection and snow windbreaks.
Myrin Ranch of Altamont has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 Utah Leopold Conservation Award®.
Panelists discuss the functional longevity EPD and genetic enhancements.
With some of the highest feed costs in over a decade, producers must consider those costs and the price of calves when determining whether backgrounding might be beneficial this year.
The combination of effects from the pandemic in 2020 and drought since 2020 has pushed the peak in feedlot numbers and cattle slaughter into 2022, well past the cyclical peak in the calf crop in 2018.
BQA Transportation is a comprehensive management program that incorporates responsible practices in all phases of transporting cattle.
November’s USDA Cattle on Feed report estimated placements at 20-year lows and well below pre-report estimates, confirming this fall’s bullish market has settled in for an extended stay.
Joe and Christy Tomandl of Medford have been selected as the recipients of the 2022 Wisconsin Leopold Conservation Award®.
What number of beef processors would resolve producer concerns about “lack of competition?” Should meat processing be different than other industries?
Drought continues to impact ranchers on the Northern Plains. Fall and early winter grazing can impact the subsequent year’s production if grazing use is close to severe.