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Maybe it was because they turned in their assignment almost two years late, but Congress isn’t getting high grades on this year’s farm bill.

Whether in good times or in bad, be it with high prices or low – today’s rancher knows that a profit depends not on what comes out of the cattle, but mostly what goes in.

Outgoing Cattlemen's Beef Board Chairman Weldon Wynn shares thoughts with Progressive Cattleman on the state of the industry from the 2014 NCBA Trade Show.

This article was #9 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2014. It was published in the March 12, 2014 Extra e-newsletter. Dr. Ken Nordlund shared the importance of positive-pressure ventilation systems and provided practical advice to keep in mind when designing a system. He estimated several thousand barns have been retrofitted with positive-pressure pressure tubes over the last few years in order to disperse fresh air in places where natural ventilation fails to reach.

Boning cow prices in Oklahoma City were reported at just over $102 per hundredweight (cwt) in the first week of March. This level suggests that March slaughter cow prices will exhibit a more than seasonal price increase. Cull cow prices typically advance from November lows to a May peak that averages nearly 19 percent higher than November price levels.

DuPont, the University of Missouri and the USDA – Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) have announced a new collaboration to pool soil mapping resources, predictive technologies and expertise to help growers more sustainably improve crop yields through better nitrogen application management and other field input planning.

Capital Farm Credit (CFC) stockholders will receive an all-time record $65 million cash patronage payment this spring.

New rules for traceability, trich and fever ticks
; the Texas Animal Health Commission has released some amended regulations: