Like a diamond in the rough, a small cut of beef that meat cutters throw in with ground meat is now being looked at as a high-end delicacy by researchers at the University of Nevada – Reno.

If you want to stir some dark memories for cattle producers in the Southern Plains, just remind them of the summer of 2011.

Weaning a calf is like sending a kid to college: They’re going to cry and miss their mom. But unlike a college student, putting a nose flap on a calf can help break that maternal bond and make the event less stressful.

As the 2016 fall calf run quickly approaches, cow-calf producers and stocker producers alike have business decisions ahead of them. The fall calf marketing period is usually full bore in October and November, which means many cow-calf producers will soon be able to calculate 2016 profits or losses.

We’re halfway through pest season, which is a milestone in and of itself. However, there are still a variety of challenges producers may experience mid-season. Some of the more common issues may include:

Haying has lasted unusually long for us this year. Thanks to a cool, long spring and some well-timed rains in May and June, we ended up with a bumper crop of grass-alfalfa hay this year.

Child labor laws help ensure that workplace responsibilities and conditions for minors are safe. Because many farmers and ranchers employ minors to help with various agricultural tasks, it is critical that producers be aware of these laws and know what children can and cannot do.

When I was in the Texas Christian University Ranch Management Program, long-time program director John Merrill referred to the unchanging absolutes in cow-calf production as “hitching posts.” Below are a few that apply directly to this article.

When a livestock producer living in a “fescue belt” state goes to the doctor, even for routine health care, what happens?

Some will call it curious timing. Others will say the stars lined up out of kismet and good fortune. But just days before Brazil would light the Olympic flame for the first time on South American soil, the USDA extended its own peace offering to the world’s fifth-largest nation.