It's easy, as the drought of the century lumbers on, to focus on the cowherd as you scramble and scratch for ways to weather another dry year. But what about the bulls?...More

Not all bulls get the job done during breeding season, says Dan Drake, University of California Extension. While ranchers and researchers alike have known this for a long time, there's never been a way to determine which bulls make you money and which bulls cost you money. However, using DNA technology and lots of number crunching, research in California found some answers to help ranchers sort the workers from the welfare recipients in their bull battery....More