Cattle producers in Texas can now use hand-held sprayers to control Cattle Fever Ticks, in addition to spray boxes according to a temporary rule change by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
Donkey hides are a key ingredient in a traditional Chinese medicine, and skyrocketing demand has decimated the world's donkey population while threatening the spread of diseases.
Once a stockman is hired and gets good at their job, it’s hard to keep them because of the low pay and long workdays. For every rural stock person available, there are two job openings.
Fall-calving herds will be breeding replacement heifers in late November. Now is the time to make certain that those heifers are ready for the upcoming breeding season.
Most spring-calving beef cows are now in their third trimester, or they will be calving soon in late January or February. Since these months also tend to bring on the most volatile and extreme cold periods, cold stress
Cattlemen's Beef Board CEO Greg Hanes reviews how your checkoff dollars are being used to create a powerful web of support for producers and helps build demand for beef throughout the country.
The greatest potential for improving sustainability of livestock production depends on scientific innovation to boost productivity while reducing environmental impacts.
Continuing its tactic of capitalizing on sensational news headlines, PETA is using the fires in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest as backdrop for its latest campaign against livestock production.
An attempted robbery at a rural Alberta property resulted in more legal woes for a rancher than for the thieves, and the case has become a flashpoint in the debate about rural landowners' rights to defend their property.
As a journalist and photographer working for the National Geographic for 35 years, Dennis Dimick has traveled the globe and witnessed the effects of the Anthropocene, which means The Human Age.
Monday’s CME cattle futures opened and locked limit lower in reaction to the news Tyson was forced to close its Holcomb, Kan., beef processing facility due to Friday night’s fire.
In a bizarre twist, Nebraska authorities say human remains found in a recently purchased stock trailer may belong to one of the brothers murdered in Missouri last summer.
"Neonatal" calf diarrhea is defined as scours occurring within the first 3 weeks of a calf's life. Bacteria, viruses and parasites can attack the lining of the calf's intestine and cause diarrhea. The