New rules concerning antibiotic uses in cattle

New rules concerning antibiotic uses in cattle

Bob Larson & Mike Apley

Angus Journal

Starting in December of 2016, the ways that cattle producers will be able to use antibiotics to control and treat disease in their herds will change.

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Battle Over WOTUS Continues in the Courts, NCBA Urges Producers to Contact Their Senators

Battle Over WOTUS Continues in the Courts, NCBA Urges Producers to Contact Their Senators

Oklahoma Farm Report

The Environmental Protection Agency has begun to implement the Waters of the US rule in at least 37 states. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Environmental Counsel Scott Yager said the WOTUS rule became effective on August 28, 2015.

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NCBA beef recordkeeping redbooks available Oct. 5

NCBA beef recordkeeping redbooks available Oct. 5

Beef Producer

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has published the 2016 Integrated Resource Management Redbooks, which will be available starting Oct. 5. The books provide an effective way for cattle ranchers to record pertinent herd information, NCBA says.

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Four steps to direct marketing beef

Four steps to direct marketing beef

Michael Flood

Canadian Cattleman

The slaughtering, processing, and sale to end consumers are things they ordinarily leave to other people. Some ranchers, however, market a part of their beef output directly to consumers, cutting out the middlemen of the cattle industry. Working with processors they package and sell freezer-ready beef to restaurants and individual customers.

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Range Beef Cow Symposium an educational opportunity

Range Beef Cow Symposium an educational opportunity

Journal Advocate

Colorado State University’s Department of Animal Sciences will host the 24th Range Beef Cow Symposium Nov. 17-19 at The Ranch in Loveland, Colo. The biennial symposium, sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service and Animal Science Departments of Colorado State University, South Dakota State University, the University of Nebraska and the University of Wyoming, offers an exclusive program of practical production management information specific to the region’s cattle producers.

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Beef producers reluctant to go antibiotic-free amid booming meat profits

Beef producers reluctant to go antibiotic-free amid booming meat profits

FoxNews

Consumers may be calling for the end of antibiotic use in meat production. But amid record high beef prices, cattle farmers are reluctant to switch to organic or more natural farming methods.

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Lower cow and heifer slaughter implies herd expansion

Lower cow and heifer slaughter implies herd expansion

Kenneth Mathews, Mildred Haley

Drovers

Commercial heifer and beef cow slaughter continues to track well below year-prior levels, primarily driven by cattle producers’ strong incentive to hold back beef cows and heifers in an effort to expand domestic cow inventory levels.

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Army veteran shares Wagyu beef cattle business success story

Army veteran shares Wagyu beef cattle business success story

Texas A&M

While beef producers were learning how to become more profitable at the 61st Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in College Station, a veterans breakfast featured one unique success story from Austin’s Josh Eilers.

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Farmers and Ranchers Are Committed to the Long Game

Farmers and Ranchers Are Committed to the Long Game

Josh Geigle

Farm Bureau

As a fourth-generation farmer and rancher, you could say farming and ranching runs deep in my veins. My ancestors were farmers and ranchers in Germany and Russia before coming to the U.S., and my family still farms the land my great-grandfather homesteaded back in 1907.

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Preconditioning pays at time of sale

Preconditioning pays at time of sale

Pete Hagar

Press Republican

There’s an old saying: “Another day, another dollar.” Whether you are spending it or making it, every dollar is crucial in the long-term sustainability of your farm operation.

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