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Cargill will offer plant-based option

Feb 26, 2020

Plant-based option will be available in early April, expanding company's approach to protein.

Grass fever is burning up the markets now

Feb 21, 2020

Buyers of grass cattle are pushing five-weights into the overvalued category. What should you do?

We’re losing the antibiotics war

Feb 19, 2020

Not only are the regulators fighting us, but nature is winning the battle against our best antibiotics. Here’s what we can do.

Wealth really comes from sunshine

Feb 18, 2020

Improving the life processes that convert sunshine to energy on the ranch or farm can increase all forms of wealth.

Merck offers new intranasal vaccine

Feb 12, 2020

Nasalgen 3 vaccine offers immunity against IBR, BRSV and PI3.

How much cattle facility can you afford?

Jan 31, 2020

Hint: Beyond basic necessities, calculate cattle trips through the facility per year instead of just herd numbers.

Good management should overcome bovine reproductive diseases

Feb 03, 2020

Author says the two worst reproductive diseases can be managed largely with biosecurity.

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Yes, biological capital is very valuable

Jan 13, 2020

In answer to a reader’s comment, biological capital may be the most valuable asset you can have.

A war on beef has begun

Dec 02, 2019

We're overfed and undernourished

Nov 04, 2019

Change the way we farm and ranch and one of the big causes for obesity will slip away.

The cycle of life should go up

Oct 14, 2019

Beef

What makes a cattle chute good?

Feb 27, 2020

Hint: Safety for you and the cattle must come first. Other niceties are second in line.

Management

Cattlemen's Beef Board announces new officers

Feb 07, 2020

The 2020 team responsible for leading the national Beef Checkoff has been named.

Still working on that cheap winter supplement

Jan 15, 2020

Winter supplement costs are one place we can work to cut costs on warm-season forage.

Beefs and Beliefs

There’s one main rule of business we often miss

Feb 03, 2020

We worry about a lot of things in the beef business, but we seem to overlook the most fundamental rule.

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Florida ranch named top environmental steward

Feb 18, 2020

Annual Environmental Stewardship Award goes to Blackbeard’s Ranch

Top 10 tips to build ranch profits

Jan 14, 2020

North Dakota ranch family expands with great grazing and by adding enterprises.

New fire ant bait introduced

Feb 14, 2020

AntiXX bait is carried into the colony as food and claimed to control the entire colony within three to 14 days.

With equipment rolling, correct data will matter

Feb 25, 2020