Working hard works, well, until it doesn’t. And it doesn’t always work when my girls enter the show ring for the market judging class during the county fair.

Stress on cattle is inevitable, but producers know the goal is to manage and mitigate the stresses animals experience, including transportation, weaning, parturition, dietary and nutritional changes, predation, commingling, vaccination, diseases and infections. 

Whether your veterinarian is coming out to examine a sick animal or for a herd working event, there are some simple best practices you can implement to help make their time on your farm as efficient as possible.

Succession planning is being addressed across the nation to help farmers and ranchers plan to pass down an operation to the next generation.

Grazing conditions are always a hot topic for producers throughout the year, and growing conditions vary year to year and across the country. Progressive Cattle asked readers, "How are grass conditions in your area looking for the rest of the grazing season?”

Leaving sufficient residual plant material (leaves, lower stem bases and crowns) is essential to maximize next year’s production for perennial grasses.

If the local farming community’s coffee row were surveyed about the beef industry’s major players, the rancher, feedlot operator and packing plants would likely dominate responses.

Efficiency is efficiency, right? Turns out, it’s probably not that simple. Efficiency in a feedlot and at the cow-calf level are two very different things.

The journey from pasture to plate is fraught with challenges, particularly during the initial receiving period when cattle are most vulnerable. The receiving phase, typically encompassing the first 45 days after cattle arrive at a feedlot, is critical for ensuring their health, well-being and subsequent productivity.

Nearly 50 head of cattle and a moose have died from anthrax in Carbon County, Wyoming. The deadly bacterial disease was last reported in Wyoming wildlife in 1956 and cattle in the 1970s.