Bull sale season is here and many cattle producers are looking to fill gaps in their bull battery. While picking out the next herd sire is important, knowing what to do with a new herd sire is paramount to his success.

We’ve come a long way from cutting and binding sheaves of hay. Yet very few folks can explain how a bale knotter works. And I won’t try. As a farm equipment mechanic, what I will try to do is tell you how to repair one.

Old Man Winter has really been in the business of making winter this year. Within a two-week period, we had a couple of storms that have dumped around 2 feet of snow in the valley, 30- to 40-mph winds to blow it into 6-foot drifts across the road and a five-day stretch where the high temperature was -10ºF.

Many ranchers are not pleased with former President Barack Obama after he declared two new monument designations in late December, expanding his environmental legacy to approximately 554 million acres of land and water over the course of his presidency.

With outdoor temperatures struggling to stay above 20ºF, the cold weather didn’t deter more than 140 beef cattle producers from hearing more about a modest cattle market outlook at the recent Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic in Cameron.

One of the beauties of the beef cattle industry is the diversity among production systems. Each differs slightly in regard to environment, breeding objective and targeted market.

My head was spinning – such a new breakthrough, with implications that were overwhelming. I just had to share it. I walked down the street to the Confused Chromosome Club and pulled open the door.

There’s more to it than you might think As pasture becomes more scarce and land lease costs rise, cow-calf producers are evaluating alternative methods for producing beef.

When you visit any seedstock producer, be it in the Rockies, the Southern Plains or the Midwest, the conversation usually wanders into a friendly invitation. Will you be back for the upcoming production sale?