Is your feed mixer working correctly? One quick way to find out is by emptying a couple of packages of small marshmallows into the mixer while it is mixing other feed ingredients.

One of the most valuable pieces of advice cattle producer Nick Trainor has to offer young cattlemen is: Learning never stops. This young cattle producer makes it his goal to surround himself with positive-thinking ranchers who want to see him succeed.

As record-high grass prices take their time coming down, many livestock producers have been forced to seek out alternative ways of keeping their cattle business in the black.

Commercial cattlemen may be dropping the ball when it comes to utilizing genomic data within their operations.

With no two production systems the same, producers may have to explore what works for them when backgrounding calves. Most producers hate to sell at today’s prices, so many are looking at the possibility of backgrounding their calves, a least through the winter.

Some recent research conducted at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln shows that when managed correctly, larger heifers can be more profitable than smaller heifers.