Whether grazing dairy or beef cattle, warm-season annual plants can provide nutrition during the hot months in midsummer when warm-season perennial plants go into semidormancy and lose most of their nutritive value.

Range cattle nutrition is largely dependent on the amount and quality of forage the grazed site can produce.

The word “sustainability” is used often in today’s society, and it has a different definition for different groups. Successful farmers and ranchers practice sustainability in their operations every day.

Legumes add quality to grass pastures as well as providing other benefits. These plants are most noted for their ability to take nitrogen from soil and convert it to ammonia through their symbiotic relationship with rhizobia nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

In many cases, a good option for powering irrigation systems is solar energy. This is especially true when the site is distant from the electrical grid.

Due to a lack of understanding of how their food is produced, consumers form unsubstantiated concerns over what they eat.

Large-animal veterinarians with an arm in a sling or on crutches is not an uncommon sight. Usually, their injury was the result of treating or testing cattle in a poorly designed or maintained handling facility.

Grass-fed beef currently constitutes about 3% of the total beef market and continues to grow as a market segment. The USDA defines grass-fed as “ruminant animals whose diet throughout their lifespan is solely derived from forage.”