Whether confinement feeding of beef cows is part of a cropping and livestock integrated system, or if cows have been displaced due to drought or fire, there are several key concepts to keep in ...

Wildfire can leave a ranching operation without forage, requiring a sudden and radical change in management to maintain ...

Several factors are driving livestock and feed sectors in Colorado and across the United States, Tyler Cozzens, director and ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa beef producers have to balance dietary and nutritional considerations with getting the most value for their dollar after feed prices skyrocketed this winter as a result of last ...

Given the less than desirable haying conditions we saw this year, (few producers got their second cutting put up without being rained on at least once), a question cattle producers may have is: “What ...

With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of the river’s water: ...

If you didn’t make hay, what could you do instead? Carson Roberts, Missouri extension state forage specialist, says the consensus in the beef industry is making your own hay is the cheapest way to ...

HURON, S.D. — The Dakota Alternative Beef Cow Symposium was held Feb. 6 at the Huron Event Center to provide research and information for farmers and ranchers interested in alternative production ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Despite some exceptionally cold temperatures this winter, Jared Luhman, a cow-calf producer at Dry Creek Farms in Goodhue, Minnesota, was able to enjoy a relatively average year of ...