As the fall season approaches, the daylight hours get shorter, the nights are cooler and, depending on the management system, cattlemen are gearing up for fall breeding or calving. Vaccination for respiratory and reproductive disease can help enhance breeding success and weaning of calves.

As the summer grazing season comes to a close, planning should be in place for the timing of grazing on pastures during next year’s growing season. Periodically rotating the timing of grazing on native rangelands in mixed-grass, semi-arid environments provides a chance for plants to maintain vigor during critical times of their growth cycles.

Beef cattle, as well as other types of livestock, are extremely important for feeding an ever-growing world population. A majority of the world is untillable land lending itself to livestock production.

In the August issue of Progressive Cattlemen, I shared with you the first five of my top 10 beef cow-calf management myths. Below are the second five – plus a few bonus myths. Click here to read part 1.

I don’t do meetings because once you’ve been to an FFA meeting, everything else is amateur hour. Attend any meeting today, and you’ll see folks holding a discussion without a motion on the floor, no flag salute and no knowledge whatsoever of Robert’s Rules of Order.

Four years ago, Oklahoma rancher Tom Watkins bought his first genomically tested bull. With one look at the numbers from the 12-month-old bull’s genomically enhanced expected progeny differences, or GE-EPDs, Watkins knew he had come across something good.

If you visit the doctor, he has a way to tell if you are sick or not. He might take your temperature, check your ears or look into your throat. Scientists are checking into the health of sagebrush rangelands in the Great Basin, and the prognosis is not good. In areas of Utah, Nevada, Idaho, California, Oregon and Washington, rangelands are under threat from invasive plants.

Who said, “There is no such thing as a stupid question?” 1. Is that cow really angry with me for messing with her cute little calf, or is that just a defensive posture she assumes because it is expected of her?