Farmers have their brand of tractors, and cattlemen have their breed of cattle.

Back in mid-May, I drove down to grain my yearling Angus bull. On the way, I passed two utility trucks working on running a new cable.

“He can paint the light off horse hide shining, the great passing herds of the buffalo. A cow camp cold on a windy morning, the twisting wrist of the Houlihan throw”

Cover crop acreage is expected to increase in response to the USDA Risk Management Agency’s revision to the preventive planting insurance provisions, allowing producers to hay or graze a cover crop on preventive-plant acres beginning Sept. 1.

Most cattle producers can tell you the body condition score of their cattle, but do they know the condition of their pastures?

Assessing the health of rangelands is often difficult to quantify and evaluate because of inherent spatial and temporal variability across our native landscapes. The overall goal is to create an environment where native rangelands are resilient to disturbances and sustainable in forage production.

To a forage-hungry cow, the great sagebrush sea of the West embodies the famous paraphrasing of a Coleridge quotation: water, water, everywhere – but not a drop to drink.