Cattle throughout the U.S. are managed in a variety of ways during the summer, whether they are grazed on rangelands or irrigated pasture, or confined in a feedlot.

For all involved in the cattle industry, “heat” is a four-letter word. To truly understand the degree of heat your cattle are experiencing, four parameters must be recognized: solar radiation, wind speed, relative humidity and heat accumulation.

It’s that time of year when routine “eye checks” are warranted – looking at both eyes of every animal to watch for signs of pinkeye.

Roughly four years ago, the feeders and packers were facing unusually high instances of non-ambulatory fat cattle. The culprit? Zilmax.

Being a ranch real estate agent these days must be difficult because they must appeal to two distinct types of buyers. There are the lifestyle buyers, who couldn’t care less about a ranch’s carrying capacity, and then there are the ranchers, who have pulled the wool over their bankers’ eyes and can get financed to buy another place.

Last month, I drove to Clover Valley, in Elko County, Nevada, to attend the funeral of an aunt, my mother’s sister. As we drove south on Highway 93, out of Idaho and into Nevada, the rugged, imposing, snowcapped Ruby Mountains came into view, powering skyward from the valley floor of the high desert country.

In the sandhills of Nebraskastands a monument of willsWhere man has staked his claimto them blowin’, rollin’ hills

Accelerated Genetics and Select Sires Inc. today announced they will be joining forces as a unified cooperative effective July 1.

Dairy regulators recently launched a new pilot program to watch for tetracycline traces in milk on July 1. The new monitoring program will test milk for tetracycline antibiotics such as oxytetracycline, tetracycline and chlortetracycline.