Kentucky was covered mostly by trees, briars, broadleaf weeds and very little forage when the original cultivar of tall fescue, Kentucky 31, was commercially released in 1943. However, in the early 1950s, cattle producers began to complain that their cattle did not perform well on tall fescue and lacked thriftiness in warm temperatures. But it was not until the early 1980s that it was discovered that most tall fescue plants are infected with a fungal endophyte.

New South Dakota State cow-calf unit facilitates many cattle types Students and beef producers alike will soon have the chance to check out a new state-of-the-art beef unit in Brookings, South Dakota.

This originally appeared in The Utah Cattleman Newsletter. With my part-time vocation as an auctioneer, I get to be involved in a number of horse sales throughout the year.

Chutes and calf tables have made livestock handling easier – on the animals and the people doing the job, whether branding, castrating, dehorning, implanting calves, etc.

One of the challenges of designing a rotational grazing system is providing an abundant supply of clean drinking water to cattle located in multiple paddocks or pastures. The use of surface water (creeks and ponds) has multiple drawbacks.

Want more nutrient value from your manure? Take your facility design into consideration.

Several factors have led producers in today’s beef industry to adopt partial confinement as a management strategy in the cow herd.

One of the biggest challenges with any stocker-grower operation is capital. Building shelters, especially for producers in states with inclement weather, can be a huge investment.

When making equipment purchases for the farm or ranch, many people base decisions on how they’ve always done things.

Stockmanship, cattle handling and facility design continue to be points of debate and interest among stockmen.