Water quality can affect land and cattle productivity. Let’s face it, cattle are naturals at drinking as long as there is a water source and access. What else is there to think about? The importance of water deserves the time and attention of cattle producers. Cattle simply cannot be healthy and gain well without good quality water. What’s more, ensuring pastures have a high-quality, sustainable and uncontaminated water source is a key component to environmental stewardship.

Ranchers running beef cattle on dry and dusty landscapes should consider smaller cows to get the best out of their herd.

Today, the day that I am writing this, is the first day of spring. It has been a long time coming, but the unpredictable weather patterns prove it is here. It is quite appropriate that I spend a part of my day treating a scouring calf. It just comes with the territory, but this year it seems so much worse.

The 2016 elections are now a distant memory and the transition into a new presidential administration is nearly complete. Now that the dust has settled a bit and most of the cabinet picks have been confirmed, talk about the 2018 Farm Bill has begun to heat up.

Producing quality hay takes planning but can be worth the effort, says Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.

Supplementation of stocker cattle grazing bermudagrass, an inherently moderate- to low-nutritive value forage, has often been used by managers to increase animal performance.

Recording information electronically is supposed to make things easier, but what many don’t understand is: Electronics are about to make things a lot more complicated in the livestock world.

The cattle industry in the U.S. can be accurately described as “transient.” Animals, from the time they are born, may be bought and sold multiple times and may spend at least some time on numerous farms or facilities.

Don Haskins and Howard Putnam. These names might not mean much to you, but for college basketball and Southwest Airlines they were game-changers.

Abundant dry grass coupled with windy conditions to create deadly and disastrous results as wildfires spread through the Midwestern states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado. The amount of acreage burned easily exceeded 1 million acres.