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Powles Ranch Partnership is the recipient of the 2021 AGA Commercial Producer of the Year award presented during the 2021 AGA National Convention and 50th Anniversary Celebration in Oklahoma City.
Cattle markets have improved significantly in the final weeks of 2021, with market analysts projecting those positive trends to continue in 2022.
Ranchers are encouraged to make record keeping a priority, including production records and complete financial analysis and planning.
“Will easy calves grow into cows that have more calving difficulty?” and “Will calves from easy cows have higher mortality?” Study results were presented at the BIF Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, June 23.
Cattle producers may have a few options available to offset the rising costs of adding phosphorus to their herd’s diet, a Kansas State University beef systems specialist said.
During the past six months, beef consumers have reinforced their preference for product at the top end of the market. Both branded and Prime products have been supported by unprecedented demand.
The December Cattle on Feed report, released on Friday, was the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year decreases in feedlot inventories, though November and December totals were only down slightly.
Cattle feeders anticipated cash cattle prices would be softer since packers were working with holiday-shortened hours last week. Packers will need cattle this week to fill full-week schedules.
Drought brings many nutritional and animal health-related challenges for ranchers. Cow performance issues during the grazing season may result from reduced forage quality and quantity.
The Arizona Cattle Industry Research & Education Foundation will sponsor a symposium for western ranchers in Mesa, AZ, February 18 and 19, 2022.
Critical fire weather is forecast through Dec. 26 for portions of North and West Texas, with Dec. 24 holding the most potential for wildfire activity, particularly in the Panhandle
With 2022 nearly upon us, and bringing the prospect of a solid cattle market and profits to cow-calf producers not realized since 2015, now is a good time for ranchers to rethink their business in terms of time frame.
A Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Special Ranger reports 75 heifers missing west of Hereford, Texas.
A confirmed wolf kill was discovered near Walden, Colo., the home of one of Colorado’s wolf packs. This is the first confirmed wolf kill of livestock in Colorado in over 70 years.
The Kansas Livestock Association reports a total of 396 donations were made to the wildfire and severe storm relief fund through Dec. 21, including two large donations from meat processors Tyson and Cargill.
Being prepared for a wildfire is something that we can do year-a-round, just a small amount of preparation can make a difference if you are ever faced with an oncoming wildfire.
Colorado State University will receive grants totaling nearly $1 million to study ways to reduce the risk of feedlot heart disease (FHD), a disease which has increased in recent years.
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has awarded Sand County Foundation a three-year grant to accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture among private landowners in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan watershed.
Optimism that has built in feeder cattle markets in the second half of the year has been enhanced and consolidated with the fed cattle market breaking out and moving sharply higher in the last two months of the year.
Cash bids were scarce last week with packers facing shortened slaughter schedules the next two weeks. Cash prices were $2 lower in all regions.
Alfalfa is the third-highest crop for economic returns in the U.S. and is a feed source for that can reduce the need for costly nutritional supplements when cattle are primarily feed other types of diets.
Through genetic potential, sensors from the environment, and actual practices, producers can predict when an animal is going to be finished or when the animal is going to be optimum in its marketing.
Mindset separates abundance thinkers, Tom Field, Paul Engler chair of agribusiness at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, told attendees at the American Hereford Association educational forum in Kansas City.
APHIS is providing more than $200,000 dollars in Farm Bill funding to support developing movement decision criteria for sheep and cattle grazing public land allotments during a potential foreign animal disease outbreak.
A Colorado rancher was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in a cattle ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 100 investors of nearly $5 million.
Hurricane-force winds and dry pastures resulted in multiple wildfires in western Kansas on Wednesday. The Kansas Livestock Association is coordinating relief efforts for affected ranchers.
The American Hereford Association reports the breed experienced notable growth and increased use of Hereford genetics in the commercial cattle industry.
U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and Trust In Food sign letter of agreement to collaborate through Trust In Beef Program to empower beef producers.
To improve efficiency of cow-calf operations, it is imperative to identify cattle and maintain accurate production records. Freeze branding is relatively stress-free and causes little or no damage to the hide.
What’s the Checkoff doing to address the threat plant-based alternative proteins pose to the beef industry? CBB vice-chairman Norman Voyles, Jr., provides a glimpse into the response from the Beef Checkoff.