What would you say if I told you that, for approximately $1.30 per animal, you could improve calf performance by 0.11 pound per day when you use implants? That means for just over $1 per animal, you could be adding anywhere from $20 to $30 of value per calf.

Taking a DNA sample at the time of performing a breeding soundness exam is now recommended to add information about the bull’s breeding value.

Choosing whether to buy bred heifers or breed your own replacements requires an honest assessment of your time, resources and energy to put into the work.

Nov. 17, 2017, was a big day in our lives. It’s a day my wife and I have been working toward since we were teenagers. It’s the day we signed up for Social Insecurity.

The Matthews boys had gathered their cattle down off of the Camel Rock piece a few days before the real rank weather hit. The next day, Broden called to let us know he’d seen a pair of ours up on the hillside above Emerson Green Spring.

If our wives had picked their husbandswith the care we buy a bullThere’d be a lot morebachelors on the street.

Timber commodity prices have been doing well this past year. This is from fortunate reasons such as the increases in the housing market – and unfortunate reasons such as natural disasters.

“Simply put, the western U.S. livestock industry is dominant in areas of the West that are not suited for farming,” said Tim DelCurto at the Western Alfalfa and Forage Symposium in Reno, Nevada.

This article is part one in a two-part series. Click here to ready part two of Avoiding probate with veneficiary designations. Probate can be costly and time-consuming – and subjects your personal information to public record. Completing a beneficiary form is a simple way to avoid probate on specific assets by designating who will receive the asset upon their death.

What you see at a ranch production sale is a crowd of cowboy hats resting on the heads of potential buyers who eye uncharacteristically clean cattle kicking up sawdust on their way through a sale ring.