Baxter Black, DVM: Just Friends

Baxter Black, DVM: Just Friends

I can’t remember his number. I don’t call him often enough.

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Blach Looks at Profitable, But Volatile 2015 for Cattle Producers

Blach Looks at Profitable, But Volatile 2015 for Cattle Producers

Oklahoma Farm Report

The CattleFax organization is the marketing analysis arm of the cattle industry. Their Chief Executive Officer is Randy Blach. The year 2014 will go down as a market for the ages, we will probably never see a market quite as good as this last year again for a variety of reasons.

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Heifers, Bred Cows in High Demand as Cattlemen Try to Grow Operations

Heifers, Bred Cows in High Demand as Cattlemen Try to Grow Operations

Chris Clayton

DTN

After years of steadily declining cattle numbers, cattlemen began looking a little more aggressively at herd rebuilding in 2014 and that appears likely to continue, at least in the short term.

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Paul Kunkel Beef Specialist with Select Sires Passes

Paul Kunkel Beef Specialist with Select Sires Passes

Paul Anthony Kunkel, 67, passed away on January 30, 2015, at his home with his family by his side. Paul was born in Covington, Kentucky, on February 1, 1947, to the late Robert Kunkel and Catherine Broghammer Kunkel. . . Paul also worked professionally as a beef specialist for Mid America Select Sires where he was a beloved co-worker and friend. Paul was a member of KYQHA, AQHA, and NSBA.

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Watch America’s farmers slowly disappear from this map

Watch America’s farmers slowly disappear from this map

Liz Core

Grist

In a time span of less than 40 years, America has gone from being a nation of farmers and secretaries to one of truck drivers and the occasional software developer. Yesterday, NPR released an interactive map of the most common job in every state from 1978 to 2014, based on data from the Census Bureau.

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How Much Should You Pay to Lease Pasture?

How Much Should You Pay to Lease Pasture?

Kathy Voth

On Pasture

The most difficult part of pasture leasing may be figuring out a rate that works for both parties. We can’t make it a breeze, but with this series of articles, we’ll give you some tools so you’ll have an idea where to start.

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Old rules of thumb can be misleading

Old rules of thumb can be misleading

Derrell S. Peel

FarmTalk

It’s a new world of cattle prices and some of the old rules of thumb that have been used for years need to be modified. I still hear folks talking about a $10/cwt slide for calf prices…the idea that calf prices should decrease by $10/cwt. or 10 cents per pound as weight increases. This evolved from historical prices.

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Moderate grazing of cover crops leaves soil unharmed

Moderate grazing of cover crops leaves soil unharmed

Laura Mushrush

Drovers

In a recent study by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) through the United States Department of Agriculture, producers can take advantage of cover crops for moderate grazing by cattle, while leaving the organic matter within soil unharmed.

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Technology in reproduction

Technology in reproduction

John Maday

Bovine Veterinarian

During the “Cattlemen’s College” sessions at the 2015 Cattle Industry Convention last week, George Seidel, Ph.D., a reproductive physiologist and distinguished professor at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, outlined some present and future technologies in bovine reproduction.

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Cattlemen Announce Partnership with National Sheriffs’ Association

Cattlemen Announce Partnership with National Sheriffs’ Association

Beef USA

Today, during the Cattle Industry Convention, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Bob McCan and Sheriff T. Michael O’Connor from the National Sheriffs’ Association announced a partnership to work collaboratively on issues that impact both associations.

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