For many of us, this year’s sale date is a highly anticipated event. While calf prices remain at an all-time high, it is important we pay particular attention to our handling techniques and transportation practices to avoid any unnecessary losses.

The use of antibiotics in the livestock industry has provided a hot topic for media and imposed government regulations. Current measures have been set in motion to reduce and further regulate antibiotic usage through the Guidance for Industry #213 plan released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December of 2013.

Jim Rogers, a financial wizard who retired at 37, recently told Progressive Cattleman, “In our history there have been long periods where the financial types were in charge followed by long periods where the people who produced real goods were in charge.

I went to America last week …the middle of America, Kansas, to a county fair. I flew into Denver and drove across miles and miles of green prairie. If America has a heart, it’s out here on the Plains. It’s not an easy place to live.

Inguran LLC (doing business as Sexing Technologies), a provider of sex sorted semen products and services, has filed suit against bull stud giant ABS Global Inc. for fraud and breach of a long-term semen sorting services contract.

From a hilltop in the upper Pahsimeroi Valley, Rosana Rieth points to a large pancake-like flat. That’s where about 80 to 100 sage grouse come to mate each spring in the shadow of the highest mountain peaks in Idaho’s Lost River Mountains. It’s a perfect spot for a sage grouse lek – the land is flat, surrounded by sagebrush, remote and next to the Pahsimeroi River.

The coming of fall on Sept. 23 means more than cooling temperatures and shorter days of sunlight.

Technology, with a dose of explanation, is just what the expert ordered. As a meat scientist for Zoetis, Brad Morgan sees a lot of industry innovations firsthand.

Shorthorn breeders are now able to enjoy the benefits of the newly implemented multi-breed genetic evaluation. Expected progeny differences (EPDs) are calculated by the American Simmental Association's multi-breed genetic evaluation, which also calculates EPDs for the Gelbvieh, Red Angus and Simmental breeds, among others.

U.S. red meat exports slowed in July, the first time this year that year-over-year export volumes were lower for both beef and pork. But 2014 exports remain on a strong pace, according to statistics released by the USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).