If you have any kind of livestock, chances are high that your local vet will be a steady (though hopefully infrequent) visitor.

Do 700-pound calves make you more money than say, 400-pound calves? After all, we know only one of these weights will get you bragging rights at the coffee shop.

Packer segment dynamics - with John Nalivka of Sterling Marketing Inc. joins Paul, David and Cassidy to explain how packers are faring during COVID-19 recovery, monopoly investigations that have begun on packer pricing, and how the industry is catching up with the backlog of cattle that are still waiting to be processed.

No segment of the cattle industry has been spared from the uncertainty and turmoil driven by COVID-19. However, the dynamics for the slaughter cow market have been a little different than those for the live cattle coming from feedlots that have garnered the most discussion due to plant disruptions.

Nebraska Extension, Lallemand Animal Nutrition, and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach are hosting the third Silage for Beef Cattle Conference with one major change: This year, the event will be a series of four, hour-long free webinars held from July 7 through Aug. 4, 2020.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard “these uncertain times” when talking about the current state of the beef industry, I could probably help fund the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.

Most of us remember going grocery shopping with our parents as children, heading to one or more stores to stock up on all the best bargains in the weekly circular. Today, many consumers look at grocery shopping not as an event but as yet another task they must squeeze into their busy schedules.