Although drought can negatively impact rangeland production, being prepared can reduce the devastation of drought this year and prevent impacts in the following years.

Rancher Steve Kenyon moved to Alberta because it was supposed to have more water than the neighboring province of Saskatchewan.

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we begin to see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Efficient grazing of forage is a key component in profitability of a ranching operation and is partly achieved by cattle consuming most of the plant species across the entire pasture.

Most of us have received the dreaded phone call, “The cows are in the neighbor’s yard again.” Hopefully, the call comes during the day while you are home and not on the anniversary weekend trip you had put off for the last five years or in the middle of the night.

For producers in the Fescue Belt, the impact of endophyte-infected fescue on the cattle that graze it is no secret.

Can your approach to backgrounding calves impact finishing performance and carcass characteristics down the line?

High tech has destroyed businesses, turned Main Street into a ghost town and driven your FedEx and UPS delivery person to sheer exhaustion. Forget the mall; Americans are shopping on their cellphones.

A lifetime spent in the pursuit of happiness, quite often generally and specifically in pursuit of a cow, in some form or another, has taught me nothing if it hasn’t taught me the world of agriculture is full of paradox and Renaissance men and women.

Let’s put in a good word for the feedlot cowboy. That group of fellers who meet every mornin’ early at the horse barn, saddle up, get their instructions and ride off down the alley.