Mark Shaw and Eric Schilling explain the purpose and the aims of the 4C Summit, which signifies meeting Challenges, making Connections, establishing Collaboration, and empowering Commitment. The 4C Summit, held in Seattle in mid April, was a collaboration between Elanco and Micro Beef to provide producers with information to add value to their operations.

Managing a feedyard is easy. Managing the employees is the hard part. An Extension feedyard specialist says understanding who you are and your personality type, understanding who your employees are and their personality types, and knowing how to wade the swamp between various personality traits can help in not conveying unintended messages.

There are a number of things cow-calf producers can do to prepare calves for their time in a feedyard, says Mark Sebranek, general manager at Irsik & Doll Feed Yard at Garden City, KS.

Chef Scott Popovic, corporate chef for the Certified Angus Beef brand in Wooster, OH, explains his beef cooking philosophy and why he became a chef.