With winter calving wrapping up and spring calving approaching, now is a good time to evaluate your cow herd for breeding potential this spring and summer. Cow body condition at or just prior to calving has the greatest impact on herd pregnancy rates and reproductive performance.

The USDA released a report in December 2017 detailing death loss, both predator and nonpredator, on cattle operations in 2015. The report was a cooperative effort between the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

In the novel Anne of Green Gables, the heroine proclaims her favorite month of the year by saying, “I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” While October is not my favorite month, I understand Anne’s partiality for a specific month. I love June.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) today kicked off a media campaign aimed at spotlighting and correcting a recent court decision that will require livestock producers to comply with laws that are only meant to apply to highly toxic Superfund sites.

In the rolling wooded hills of Starr, South Carolina, sits Weems Creek Cattle Company’s 2,400 acres – home to 365 head of mama cows.

It is generally accepted that adequate supervision at calving has a significant impact on reducing calf mortality. Adequate supervision has been of increasing importance with the higher price of live calves at sale time.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy was released from custody after U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared the federal case against him and his sons a mistrial in December. Another hearing held on Jan. 8 finally dismissed the case “with prejudice,” after which Bundy was released.

The Division of Animal Sciences at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR) boasts many strengths, including its vast research and work with beef cattle reproduction and genetics.

Continued growth in beef production in 2018 is likely to pressure cattle and beef prices. Cattle producers have a number of economic conditions to watch that will indicate the impact of factors they cannot control and that will have implications for those factors they do control.

As the cold reality of winter sets in, and the daylight hours shrink, I think fondly of the bygone days of a few weeks ago – when the colors were just beginning to change, and Mother Nature still shed just enough light and warmth on the Heartland to encourage anything green to squeeze out its last tiny bit of growth.