Paying attention to five elements of your business helps ensure profitability It seems straightforward. You work hard, put in long hours, use top genetics, seize marketing opportunities and hope to earn a decent living.

One of our agricultural adages is that the best land makes the most money. In our livestock enterprises, we feel the same way about our animals.

Efficiency. Performance. Longevity. These are buzzwords in beef cow management – and for good reason. A cow that efficiently utilizes a ration to produce marketable calves each year is an easy keeper and an asset to the herd.

Cattlemen, there are no worries, according to the following claim: “Start saving over 50 percent of your feed costs and take control of the quality and availability of your feed supply by growing hydroponic fodder.”

Spring calving season is just around the corner, so it’s not too early to start preparing. “Instruments used in handling calving problems should be in good repair, clean and sterile,” says Floron Faries, DVM, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

As winter sets in around us, the majority of our feeding management still lies ahead for the year.

One of my main job responsibilities at Genex Cooperative Inc. is teaching A.I. schools for those wanting to learn how to inseminate their own cattle.

With increased heat, little to no rain and already damaged crops across much of the Plains, many cattle producers are looking for substitute sources of protein for their herds.

The optimization of feed efficiency and animal health is critical to the success and profitability of the beef industry. In feedlots, one of the biggest challenges is the nutritional management of newly received cattle, who enter the feedlot with a wide range of different nutritional and health backgrounds.

When a calf hits the ground, there are already hundreds of dollars invested. It just makes sense to protect that investment.