Regional winners of the Environmental Stewardship Award Program visit with Progressive Cattleman about the practices that earned them recognition at the 2015 NCBA Convention.

Export value for U.S. beef reached new heights in 2014, posting double-digit gains over the previous year’s totals, according to statistics released by the USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Ag tech startup Summer Technologies’ company mission is “to empower sustainable ranchers to make an industry-transforming impact through technology.” The company’s soon-to-be-released app, Pasture Map, promises to do just that.

With the ever-increasing cost of making hay, more and more cattlemen are kicking the hay habit and pushing their cattle to graze more days of the year.

Most online readers said that their beef cows produce for 10 to 11 years.

By now you’ve heard, seen or experienced for yourself the thrilling reality that the beef cattle industry is thriving in 2015. At this year’s CattleFax Outlook seminar in San Antonio, CEO Randy Blach made a compelling comment, saying how he wished his parents were still around to see the phenomenal run of cattle prices we see today.

Using co-products from other industries as sources for nutrients for beef cattle is nothing new to beef producers and nutritionists.

Some years are worse than others for grasshopper populations. Problems occur when environmental conditions lead to higher-than-normal numbers and “grasshopper outbreaks,” which cause millions of dollars’ worth of damage to crops and rangelands.

Landowners throughout the Southwest have long wrestled with the exploding numbers of feral hogs in their region. But a newly developed method for trapping hogs could flip the momentum.

The inventory of all cattle and calves was 89.8 million head on Jan. 1, 2015, up 1.4 percent from one year ago but, except for last year, still the smallest total herd inventory since 1952. The 2014 calf crop was up 0.5 percent from 2013 at 33.9 million head. The 2014 calf crop percentage (calf crop as a percent of all cows) was 88.5 percent, the highest percentage since 2006.