There were no shortage of legal challenges impacting cattle producers across the country in 2025. Here is a look at several of the biggest cases of the year.

How many of us wish we could add time back into our days? For many of my customers who own and operate diversified operations, there never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. This problem is often exacerbated by the challenge of finding skilled labor.

E-ID tags can be helpful for cattle operations, offering accurate data collection, compliance with USDA standards and increased efficiency. They help producers manage cattle records and improve overall productivity.

For generations, managing beef cattle across the vast and rugged landscapes of the American West has relied on traditional stockmanship and an intimate knowledge of the land. Now, new technologies are available to augment these established practices, offering producers a more detailed, real-time view of their herds.

If you have ever tried to recall where you wrote down a cow’s tag number or decipher pen marks on the back of your hand after a long day of processing cattle, you know the frustrations of recordkeeping. Recordkeeping isn’t always the easiest task, but it plays an important role in informing management decisions.

Beef producers face countless obstacles in raising high-quality, nutritious products. Deficiencies, avoidances and half-hearted energies directed toward any management area will result in mediocre performance, reduced profitability at a minimum and financial disaster in the worst cases.

As 2024 comes to a close, let’s take a look back at some of the biggest agricultural law stories impacting beef producers across the U.S.

A recent USDA cattle behavior-based grant focused on beef production decentralization, especially among small farmers.

Cattle ID preferences vary from producer to producer, but the ever-present question of “which one do you use?” is an evergreen conversation starter among the cattle crowd.