My idea of a risk is far different from my cowboy's. I take tiny, calculated risks. My idea of a risk involves trying a new recipe or taking an alternate route on a trip. My hubby's idea of risk includes life-altering circumstances. It's not a risk to him unless someone might die.

“They don’t need that eye to eat,” is a common misconception when it comes to the impacts of pinkeye in the cattle industry. Research shows calves that are diagnosed with pinkeye will weigh between 20 to 40 pounds less at weaning than healthy calves, and a blind calf will weigh about 60 pounds less at weaning. This loss of weaning weight, in addition to the cost of treatment and labor, adds up to an estimated cost to the cattle industry of $150 million annually.

Summer is here and it’s almost time for Junior Nationals season. Show season will kick off June 17 with shows in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, and end with the last breed show in Colorado on July 14. See the calendar below to find the date and place of your favorite breed show.

When the acres of pasture, grass hay, alfalfa, corn and sorgum silages, and grazing wheat in the plains are all added up, forages account for by far the most acreage of any US crop. In fact, land used for grazing is over 780 million acres - nearly double the land used for other crops of all types. Add to that the 61 million acres of alfalfa, 15 million for corn and sorghum silages, then add in the grass hays and others, and you can see that forages comprise the vast majority of US cropland. And yet, it could be said that forages continue to be neglected when it comes to fertilization. The majority of grazing lands receive no fertilizer of any kind, with the resulting low forage yield/lower daily rate of gain being widely accepted on land with low perceived value. At AgroLiquid, however, we are discovering that even a very modest rate of our products applied at the right time results in a large return on investment –  Why?

The USDA will begin accepting disaster assistance program applications on June 4 from agricultural producers who suffered livestock, honeybee, farm-raised fish and other losses due to natural disasters.

Lawmakers recently introduced the Transporting Livestock Across America Safely (TLAAS) Act, a bipartisan bill reforming the federal hours-of-service (HOS) rules. The bill was sponsored by Sens. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Doug Jones (D-Ala.).

Summer has arrived as Memorial Day weekend becomes the ceremonious opening to the season of the sun. Summer is the high point of the year for your kids and grandkids, who are free to spread their wings away from the classroom.

Time is running out for producers to weigh in on the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef’s (USRSB) first-ever sustainability framework.

Most livestock producers have likely never heard of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, but this federal agency has passed regulations that could have major impacts on livestock haulers across the country.

Commercial beef production for 2018 is forecast at 27.6 billion pounds, revised downward by 50 million pounds from the previous month. This change largely reflects a combination of both slower-than-expected pace of fed cattle slaughter and lighter cattle weights in first-half 2018.