Since 2000, stocker cattle inventories have progressively moved from the northern states to the Southeast. Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky have captured an additional 207,000 head in that time frame, and account for nearly 85% of the geographic...More

Conventional wisdom has held that it’s better to delay implanting high-risk calves on arrival at a feedlot until their health status has stabilized. New research, however, shows that implanting high-risk calves on arrival is the better option, both from an economic and performance perspective....More

The next time you hear some well-meaning, misinformed person bemoaning the use of technology in beef cattle production, remind them that it’s because of an extraordinary array of safe technologies that more beef is produced at lower consumer prices with significantly less environmental impact than if those technologies were unused....More

Anyone wondering whether the industry has any more aces up its sleeve in terms of cattle to pull forward received a definitive answer in last week’s monthly Cattle on Feed report....More

Tight calf supplies and obscenely high feedlot breakevens continue to offer value-of-gain opportunity to traditional stocker operators as well as cow-calf producers and folks whose primary occupation is growing small grains....More