While the process of identifying bulls that fit your program and going to bull sales can be enjoyable, it must be completed by writing a check – and likely a significant one at that.

This article is the second in a two-part series. Click here to read part-one in the series. In the last issue of Progressive Cattlemen, several issues regarding the use of native warm-season grasses as a forage tool were considered – adaptability, establishment, longevity, drought tolerance and yield.

Implants have shown to increase weight gain more efficiently than any other management practice across various growing phases, including nursing calves, stockers and finishing feeder operations.

Fall and early winter forage can be limited in some parts of the U.S. In addition, backgrounding of calves on pasture can be an integral part of a feeder calf development and marketing program.

The bull business is very competitive, and purebred people play to win. Because there’s a limited number of buyers, breeders spend a fortune on color ads and hire their own field men to exhort ranchers to come to their sale.

I hold some allegiances to various creeds, ideologies, people and sports teams. The strength of my allegiance varies according to the cause. I know plenty of guys who live or die by the color of their tractors and their cows or the letters on the tailgate of their pickups.

“Roy, can you show us the scar? It’s gotta be a big one!” “What scar?” “Where they took your conscience out!”

A trio of speakers at the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association Producer's Forum took aim at one of the key questions plaguing the cattle industry over the past 12 months. Namely, why is the futures market in such disarray?

According to an online poll, most Progressive Cattleman readers graze cover crops.