Livestock pests aren’t limited to grubs, lice, flies or other types of flying insects. Rodents also damage feed sources and supplies, forage and grain harvesting equipment, and range and pasture lands.

Even for experienced cattlemen, it’s sometimes difficult to understand exactly what’s happening during the calving process.

Reproductive diseases can damage a cattle operation’s profitability for months and even successive years.

Cow-calf producers must consider additional factors than what breed to buy when adding females to their herd.

Most U.S. cow-calf producers calve in the spring and become familiar with the need for biosecurity and disease control in their newborns.

The U.S. beef industry is poised to become an even larger provider of animal protein to the world’s growing population, but the question arises – how can it be successful when so many outside forces are striving to influence it?

Reproductive technologies such as artificial insemination (A.I.) and estrous synchronization (ES) can provide measurable value in the right situation – but often are dismissed as too complicated or logistically challenging to employ.