Ranchers looking to secure better genetic outcomes should register this month for the 2019 event in Manhattan, KS. Bozeman, MT – “Focus on you. Focus on success. Focus on profit.” That’s what cattlemen attending the American Simmental Association’s upcoming Fall Focus event can expect. The 2019 annual gathering takes place August 23-27 in Manhattan, KS.  [...]

Nestled along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range lies the “Biggest Little City in the World”. Reno, Nevada, extends across the valley floor of the northern Nevada high desert. As expected, the city is no stranger to the Western way of life. Come experience the ranching history, Western nostalgia and modern amenities [...]

(Washington, D.C., June 20, 2019) – Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today signed a Memorandum of Agreement (PDF, 166 KB) that formally outlines how the departments will transfer ownership and operational responsibility for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) from DHS’ Science and Technology [...]

Summer internships provide undergraduates with head start to professional career MANHATTAN, Kan. – Curiosity may not have ended up well for the cat, but it’s helping to provide a big career boost to eight undergraduate students at Kansas State University this summer. They make up the first-ever group of students selected for a nine-week internship [...]

IDEAg Group, producers of Minnesota Farmfest, will showcase an industrial hemp demonstration plot at the show this year. Hemp crops are growing on 7,200 square feet of land and will be ready to display to Farmfest attendees by Aug. 6, the opening day of the show. Three hemp varieties are represented – one fiber and [...]

Kansas State University researchers are growing more than 300 cultivars of wheat in heat-controlled tents in order to test the effect of nighttime temperatures on the yield and quality of the crop K-State builds first-ever facility to test effect of high nighttime temperatures on wheat MANHATTAN, Kan. – Can a small circuit board, barely the [...]

Jack Arterburn, Nebraska Extension Educator, Beef Systems Accounting for forage demand by cattle is critically important to knowing forage utilization on range and pasture. Photo credit Troy Walz. On most ranches, average cow size has increased significantly over the last three decades as a result of genetic selection. These changes do not come without consequences [...]

George Perry,Professor & SDSU Extension Beef Reproductive Management Specialist Written collaboratively by Saulo Menegatti Zoca, Jerica Rich, and George Perry. The use of new technologies by the beef industry usually lags its development by researchers. An example of this would be gender-selected semen. The incorporation of this or any new technology is dictated by its [...]

The Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course has a rich tradition and historical place in the programs emanating from the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. Dating as far back as 1942, Professor John K Riggs started the first in a series of Beef Cattle Short Courses hosted on the campus of Texas [...]

Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist Only 1 to 2 months ago the spring calving cows were calving, the temperatures were colder and the calving pastures were already covered with muck and manure. Experience would say that you do not want to ask cow calf operators how calving is then, because the [...]