Pregnancy detection. If only it were as easy to do as it is to say.

There is a flame of passion burning strong in Jim Kopriva despite candidly admitting the reins of Kopriva Angus near Raymond, South Dakota, are split with his son.

When you look back in the past 10 to 15 years at the data trends, Choice-graded beef has been on the rise.

While bovines as a species are a pretty resilient animal, there are times where consuming too much of the wrong things can be detrimental to their performance – and maybe their life.

What was once a cost-prohibitive and unprecedented management practice for beef producers has become more attainable in recent years. Assisted reproductive technologies, specifically in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET), have become stronger options to use alongside live cover.

If ever there was a busy time in a producer’s life, it is right around the time decisions are made for which animals head to the sale barn. At the end of long days, it is easy to skip over any further management for those cattle earmarked for sale and focus on the retained or growing herd that stays. A few simple considerations and actions, however, can be the difference in dollars per head once those cattle go through the sale ring.

In many parts of the country, cold-stressed calves are almost inevitable during the former weeks of spring calving.

What was once a far-off dream might become a reality sooner rather than later thanks to numerous groups embarking on improvements with RFID eartag technology in beef cattle.

Regardless of your regional location in the U.S., stockpiling has a place in pasture management and forage sources for beef producers.

As technology evolves, drones are finding their way into a lineup of non-negotiables in producers’ management toolkits.