You’ve worked hard to create the equity in your farm or ranch. When it comes time to sell, you need to work smart to preserve that equity and to make your money work as hard for you as you’ve worked for it.

Soil-moisture conditions in the Southern Plains have continued to deteriorate, and drought-affected areas appear to be expanding northward.

A couple years ago my wife and I spent a fantastic two-week vacation in Italy (with Road Scholar educational programs). It had been an embarrassingly long time since I took a true vacation – no work, no emails, no phone calls.

Low-stress stockmanship is a beneficial way to handle cattle in feedlots, dairies, small pastures or when working them in corrals.

Biosecurity is a combination of many practices related to the protection of the agricultural industries.

Stockmanship can be defined as the art and science of handling cattle in a proper manner.

In today’s world, proper cattle handling is key. Employees must be trained and use the skills learned each time they handle cattle. However, sometimes people are less attentive, and mistakes happen.

Stockmanship and animal welfare go hand in hand, and the cattle industry takes both very seriously. “Stockmanship” isn’t found in the Webster dictionary; however, an applicable definition for stockmanship reads, “Stockmanship is the art and science of handling cattle properly.”

It’s common for food-service providers and retailers to communicate they are committed to sourcing food from sustainable beef production systems. Most sustainability definitions note the necessity of an economic or financial component.

Preventing respiratory disease at cow-calf level leads to industry efficiencies