New demands for corn, such as ethanol production and growing export markets, have increased the price of corn, and the repercussion has been increased costs of virtually all other feedstuffs. Through both direct and indirect influences, this has also driven land prices and rental rates up, including range and pasture land. Thus, one of many rapidly escalating portions of rising annual cow costs is the cost to rent grass....More

Cattle and deer can roam together on the ranch in a profitable operation if managed properly, according to Brandon Boughen, Texas AgriLife Extension Service agent for Potter County....More

As newfangled barbed wire became a staple of the American West, Native Americans took to referring to it as the Devil’s Rope. You’ll likely call it worse if your fences ever let you down and your cattle wind up amid a catastrophic injury case, or even a non-catastrophic one....More