Most readers use hydrated lime as a bedding additive, according to a recent poll by Progressive Dairyman.

Heather Smith Thomas is an author of 20 books and a regular contributor to Progressive Cattleman. An author of several books on cattle production, her latest book, Horse Tales: True Stories from an Idaho Ranch, is a collection of 22 stories about horses from her ranch life in Salmon, Idaho.

Turn on any news station or open a newspaper in Nevada, and you’ll see the effects of the severe drought, now in its third year in the Silver State. It is leaving farmers and ranchers devastated.

Most of Progressive Cattleman’s readers work more than 40 hours a week on their beef operations.

Wisconsin farmers aren't producing enough milk to satisfy Wisconsin cheesemakers, said a panel of experts at the Wisconsin State Journal's second Business Roundtable on Oct. 8.

Kayla McNett California Account Manager Farmeron Inc. Visalia, California

Anyone who works with cattle – whether on a dairy, commercial cowherd or feedlot – understands that treating animals with proper care and handling is essential.

“You’ve got to want to do what you’re doing … and work at it,” says Hugh Ingalls about what it takes to persevere in the cattle business on the unforgiving prairie through the ups and downs of weather, cattle prices and the rippling trends of purebred genetics.

Agriculture has always been known as a people business. For decades, business deals were done with a handshake, no paper trail needed.