As a difficult fire season has passed in the Pacific Northwest and California recovers from its summer of smoke, it is always at the forefront of landowners’ minds on how to protect their buildings and land from the devastation of a wildfire.

Positive impacts of low-stress cattle handling on ranch profits is recognized by progressive producers.

There’s a saying that the only thing constant in life is change – and during the last 10 years in the beef industry, the rate of change has seemed to accelerate. The continuing evolution of change is guaranteed for the future. How are you preparing for it?

Fed and feeder cattle market prices declined sharply late in the third quarter of 2015. For the week ending Oct. 11, 2015, prices for five-area all grades were $125.36 per hundredweight (five-area fed steers report), almost $40 lower than year-earlier fed steer prices. As with fed cattle, feeder cattle prices also took a hit.

The American Angus Association announced on Oct. 30 that Allen Moczygemba will be its new president and CEO, effective Dec. 1, 2015.

In my 26 years as a financial adviser to ag families, I’ve learned that farmers and ranchers hate paying annual income taxes. Sadly, however, many fail to avoid paying tax on the biggest tax event of their lives – when they sell their farm or ranch.

When I submit a hay sample to a laboratory for nutrient analysis, the report may come back with two different values for total digestible nutrients (TDN).

Here’s a look at the Progressive Cattleman stories that gathered the most online traffic over the past year.

Bale processing basics 1. Bale processors maximize hay supplies by reducing hay losses.

As cattlemen, we are now replacing the cow herd to bring it back to our normal “comfort zone of production” after herd reduction resulting from years of forage loss due to wildfire and drought.