Many business leaders and managers complain that they can teach new employees how to do all the tasks required for the job, but too often prospective employees lack the character and attitude necessary to fit their company culture. Here are a few desirable traits requiring no talent, skills, experience or education to be a great employee, whether they are a family member or a hired employee.

The American Simmental Association presented the Golden Book Award to Hart Simmentals of Frederick, South Dakota, at the ASA’s Fall Focus event Aug. 26 in Denver. Recipients of the Golden Book Award are recognized for being lifelong promoters of the Simmental breed.

Many producers take pride in raising Certified Angus Beef (CAB). Now these producers can take the CAB brand and logo to their freezer beef market with the new direct-to-consumer Ranch to Table program.

The October podcast goes to Denver, Colorado, for the Red Angus annual conference where David Cooper interviews Rick Funston and Jordan Shockley. Funston, a reproductive physiologist with University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explains numerous factors toward efficiency in repro rates, heifer selection and reproductive success.

Depending on who you talk to, attitudes toward the use of implants in beef cattle production are very different. Most finishing yards are using implants today unless cattle are enrolled in a non-implant, natural or organic program that prohibits their use. Before the feedyard, however, their use decreases the smaller the animal becomes. 

When someone hears “estate plan” they generally think “will.” However, for today, I want to focus on the other estate documents beyond a will – there are many!

There was a bit of a chill in the air – a friendly one, not the angry kind that would come whipping out of the north in a month or two – as I cruised with my window down along Highway 20.

The study will focus on cattle’s mitochondria, cell components whose biochemical activity produces most of the body’s energy for cell function. The researchers hope the project will expand the range of genetic tools used by animal breeders.