More than 50 veterinarians, laboratory personnel, researchers and animal health company officials participated in the Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Eradication: Reality or Myth? Symposium on Oct. 13 in Kansas City, Missouri.

The choice retail beef and all fresh beef demand (AFBD) indices for the third quarter of 2014 each rose by 3.9 percent. There now have been year-over-year increases in the AFBD index in 16 of the last 17 quarters (only exception was Q1 2014).

LiftMaster, a manufacturer of residential and commercial gate operators, is introducing new features and connectivity in its latest line of DC gate operators.

Recent lower prices in corn could translate into fewer planted acres in 2015, potentially putting pressure on bids for beef cattle next year, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist.

Do genetically engineered feeds harm livestock?A review involving 127 published papers “revealed no disturbing trends in animal performance or health indicators.”

Heather Smith Thomas is an author of 20 books and a regular contributor to Progressive Cattleman. An author of several books on cattle production, her latest book, Horse Tales: True Stories from an Idaho Ranch, is a collection of 22 stories about horses from her ranch life in Salmon, Idaho.

Most of Progressive Cattleman’s readers work more than 40 hours a week on their beef operations.

“You’ve got to want to do what you’re doing … and work at it,” says Hugh Ingalls about what it takes to persevere in the cattle business on the unforgiving prairie through the ups and downs of weather, cattle prices and the rippling trends of purebred genetics.

Agriculture has always been known as a people business. For decades, business deals were done with a handshake, no paper trail needed.

In the cattle business, weight is important. The weight of a calf when it’s born through the weight when it’s processed are all values that help a producer to know more about a herd, and make management decisions.