Cargill has announced it will soon be selling its last two beef cattle feedyards in Leoti, Kanas, and Yuma, Colorado, to Green Plains Inc., an Oklahoma-based company.

There is something about saddling up a fresh horse on a cool spring morning, trailing cows into the corrals and getting ready to brand slick calves that compares to nothing else. Early morning jitters from lack of sleep finally give way to good morning hellos and laughter among the help.

Agriculture is a leading industry in Texas, with the recreational land industry—rec land—following close behind. It’s a fact that new AgAmerica Correspondent Lender, Jordan Shipley, knows very well. As a native Texan, Jordan grew up immersed in two of Texas’s favorite pastimes: outdoor recreation like hunting and fishing, and football. In college he played for the Texas Longhorns, and he was later drafted in the NFL.  After playing for the Bengals, Buccaneers and Jaguars, he turned to his love of hunting and fishing as a host of “The Bucks of Tecomate,” a hunting show on the Outdoor Channel. Below he discusses his time with the NFL, rec land and agriculture, and his new role as a Texas land lender for AgAmerica.

Creep feeding provides supplementary nutrition to nursing calves. It can increase a calf's daily rate of gain, as well as weaning weight. Whether it will benefit your production depends on several factors.

Managing what goes into an organized ranch refrigerator is crucial when dealing with animal health. Many times, it can mean life or death, and seasoned ranchers know the importance of having the proper medications for a healthy herd on hand at all times.

Following the news about U.S.-Chinese trade talks is a lot like ordering Chinese food – just when you got enough, you’re seemingly hungry for more.

After serving frozen beef for more than four decades, McDonald’s announced it will begin making one of its signature burgers with fresh, not frozen beef by mid-2018.

Prescribed burning (also called controlled burning) is a popular grassland management tool across the country. These burns, when conducted carefully, can serve to maintain and restore native grasslands, control weeds, improve forage quality and even prevent wildfires.

Small-grain cattle grazing in the Southwest and Southern Plains states is likely being hampered by drought and wildfires. Wildfires have burned hundreds of squares miles in the panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas as well as in southeast Kansas and eastern Colorado.

In the cattle industry, we’re not short of opinions. However, there is just some advice we shouldn’t take. With science, research and economics as evidence, heed caution before embracing the five myths below.