In the early 1980s, Bob and Beth Kennett opened a B&B on their dairy as a way to make ends meet. Today, they welcome 1,000 guests every year from all over the world to visit Liberty Hill Farm and experience life on a dairy.

Most readers are at least somewhat concerned about beef exports under the Trump administration.

Brett Stuart, an economist with Global Agritrends, encouraged ranchers to look at current beef prices from a global perspective.

U.S. dairy replacement cattle exports turned in pedestrian numbers in October, but they’re breaking into a sprint to end the year.

In the Nebraska Sandhills, Dave and Loretta Hamilton run cattle on 18,000 acres, which is covered in sand bluestem, indiangrass, switchgrass, prairie sand reed, sand lovegrass and little bluestem – all native grasses.

The Progressive Cattleman editorial staff shares some of its favorite news articles, photos, magazine covers and blogs from the past year.

Gert Schrijver and his wife, Sonja, started Mars Dairy near Stettler, Alberta, in 1996 after immigrating from the Netherlands. At the time, they were milking 50 cows. Today, they have 230 cows (370 kilograms of quota), 260 heifers and 850 acres. They also recently achieved the highest milk production in Alberta at more than 14,000 litres of milk per cow in 305 days.

The Christmas season marks the end of the year and is a great time to reflect on our year and to look forward to the next. It's a time to celebrate the birth of our Savior and the new covenant the book of Jeremiah promised. It's also a great time to reflect on the blessings of the past year.

The Progressive Publishing team is pleased to once again bring you the Top 25 most well-read articles. This list reflects content published from Oct. 1, 2015 through Sept. 30, 2016 and is based on Google Analytics.

The transition to bigger beef supplies (and psychologically to the idea of bigger supplies) that began impacting cattle markets in 2015 continued in 2016.