Bayer HealthCare Animal Health has announced the Tolfenpro Insecticide Ear Tag, an ear tag option with a new active ingredient to help producers control horn flies and face flies in beef cattle, non-lactating dairy cattle and lactating dairy cattle.

A disease outbreak during calving season can have a devastating effect on your operation. It affects the health of your cattle, your bottom line and you as a human (added stress and disease potential – salmonellosis, cryptosporidiosis).

When the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) regulations go into effect, they will only apply to antibiotics used in feed.

If you went into the cattle business because you relish the chance to work alongside family, in the outdoors and with horses and livestock – you are not alone. Those values remain at the heart of the cattle industry.

The 23rd annual Cattlemen’s College will be held as part of the 2016 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association convention and trade show in San Diego, California.

Much of eastern Texas and the Southeast received several inches of rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Patricia. The U.S. Drought Monitor (Nov. 10, 2015) removed the D3 Extreme Drought classification in much of the Southern Plains; the classification has now been reduced to a combination of D1 Moderate Drought and D0 Abnormally Dry.

A resolution has been introduced in the U.S. House to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for violation of the public trust, failing to comply with congressionally issued subpoenas and misleading the public over the IRS’s practices of targeting conservative groups in audits.

Bull sales happen year-round due to different calving cycles and seasonality nationwide, but Jan. 1 seems to kick off a very high percentage of sales, and they go strong through late April. It’s equivalent to the hectic retail season from Thanksgiving through Christmas.

It is hard to believe where time goes. I often reflect at how it seems we blink in the cattle business and the next season is upon us. Currently, fall calving is completing, and spring calving is just around the corner.

As many beef producers get ready for calving to begin, they need to keep the health of their calves at the forefront of their planning.