Family tradition states John Walker (of Scottish-Irish descent) and his five brothers served in the American Revolution Continental Army. John Walker served as a private in Captain John Morrow’s company of Pennsylvania Riflemen, 2nd Battalion, signing up in May of 1776.

Weaning time is in full swing, and with it comes decisions producers must make regarding the preparation and marketing of cattle for the next segment of the beef industry.

This article is the first in a two-part series. Click here to read part-two in the series. Through the years, you may have heard any number of things about native grasses and the role they can play in a forage program. Some comments I have heard include, “they won’t grow around here,” “they are very low-quality forages” or “they are about impossible to establish.”

I have an embarrassing admission to make. In my life, I’ve fed, raised and traded thousands of cattle – and yet, as far as I know, I have yet to eat a bite of any of them. I never fed out a home-grown steer or stuffed our freezer with hamburger from an old lump-jaw cow.

Almost 180,000 animals have been tested for the genetic defect developmental duplication (DD) since 2013. According to Angus Genetics Inc. genetic service director Kelli Retallick, they do not have the number of producers who have tested animals for the DD genetic defect.

Meatless Monday … what kind of person would think something like that up? The same kind of people who would support Breathless Tuesday, Whistle-less Wednesday or Jalapeño-less Cinco de Mayo?

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) has been diagnosed in a white-tailed deer in Franklin County, Indiana. This marks the first time the disease (more formally known as Mycobacterium bovis) has been found in a wild animal in Indiana. This finding means significant changes in disease monitoring requirements for cattle owners and deer hunters in the area.

The Tennessee Cattlemen’s Association (TCA), along with other industry partners, recently donated more than 1,600 pounds of beef to Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, as part of TCA’s Second Harvest Initiative.

U.S. Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced the “Commodity Checkoff Program Improvement Act of 2016” (S. 3201), a bill they say will bring transparency and accountability to national commodity checkoff programs.

In 2015, U.S. per capita meat consumption took its largest annual jump since the 1970s, up 5 percent. However, with flat sales resulting from tight supplies and retail price peaks, beef didn’t capture its share of that growth, according to a new report from the Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory group.