Feedyard managers and stocker guys might call it a bad luck/good luck story. Dan Thomson calls it riding the epidemiological curve to glory. It happens...More

Mention livestock identification nowadays and you're likely to get a wide range of reactions. Mention it to a rustler, however, and the reaction is likely...More

The notion that we can sometimes be our own worst enemies is certainly true for those employed in modern agriculture. The divisions we're creating with...More

After reading the Reader's Viewpoint letters in your February issue, I just had to put in my two bits. I'm getting so tired of people complaining how...More

Apparently reacting to pressure from the activist group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), McDonald's may require its processors to...More

It was in November 1984 that Chandler Keys, armed with a new bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, hopped on the metro to cover the 20 miles...More

As mentioned in last week's issue of BEEF Cow-Calf Weekly, R-CALF filed suit and gained a temporary restraining order to halt the shipment of bone-in cuts of beef from Canada to the U.S. This week, USDA elected not to fight the order, and instead published the ruling with the impending regulations for importation of live cattle....More

At our last Texas Executive Link meeting, concerns about getting and keeping good employees came up time and time again. It seems good people are hard...More

Tailoring your management style to the individual personality types of your workers offers a feedyard rewards in workplace efficiency and harmony. How...More

Increasingly, reports are coming in of wild cattle that are difficult to handle in packing plants. This is not only an issue of humaneness and efficiency...More