Charles Dickens was the literary titan of the Victorian age, primarily through his ability to portray the struggles of Britain’s most impoverished and downtrodden people. His gift for creating such characters was rooted in the fact that, in some ways, he was one of them.

Rules of thumb can be dangerous because they are simplified, generalized algorithms that we use instead of a more detailed, accurate calculation.

Maximizing your day-to-day productivity can be hard no matter what profession you’re in. However, the task of “getting stuff done” or moving forward becomes increasingly hard when you add the element of caring for live animals and dealing with unpredictable weather.

The abundant corn crop is exerting downward pressure on corn prices and has provided livestock feeders recent profit opportunities some have not experienced in several years. For cattle feeders, lower corn prices permit longer feeding periods.

For the past five years, I’ve been writing articles for crop farmers on how to manage the unprecedented amount of income flowing through their operations, and now it is the turn for the livestock producer to worry about what to do with all that extra income.

As 2014 draws to a close, let’s take a look back at the major developments in agricultural law over the past year.

Getting started in the beef industry can be a difficult and costly process. Without the capital required, aspiring producers often find themselves buried in debt.

Biosecurity is defined as a set of management practices used to prevent, reduce or eliminate the introduction and spread of infectious diseases into, and within, beef cattle operations, including cow-calf, stocker-backgrounder and feedlot operations.

Ranchers often wonder which antibiotics to have on hand for calving in case a calf becomes ill or a cow needs treatment.

The year 2014 has been good to cattle producers. Record-high prices for fed and feeder cattle have provided great opportunities for profit.