A good bull is the best investment a producer can make. by Paul Schattenberg, Texas AgriLife Extension The value of bulls in commercial herds goes beyond the “relative” value typically ascribed to them in market pricing, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. Joe Paschal, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension livestock specialist, said a good [...]

URBANA, Ill. – Imagine you’re walking the cereal aisle at your favorite grocery store. Are you reading labels? Scanning prices? Thinking about weeds? If you’re like most American consumers, weeds probably aren’t at the forefront of your mind when buying food. But if farmers could no longer control weeds with existing herbicides, Americans would take [...]

Commercial Cattlemen will have two new events of interest to attend or participate in at the 2018 National Western Stock Show. Held in the historic Stock Yards, the first event will feature exhibitors that will bring bulls in pens of 5 to 10 head presented and priced like ranchers would find them at a typical [...]

  The International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) partnered with Neogen Corporation – GeneSeek Operations to offer a new ultralow density DNA panel (GGP-uLD) with a lower per-animal cost. The new product offering and pricing began Oct. 1. In addition to parentage SNPs, the new panel will offer imputation up to 50K status for calculation of [...]

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Applied Wheat Genomics works globally to develop improved varieties MANHATTAN, Kan. – It may be approaching winter in Kansas, but the field work on wheat genetics is going full steam for wheat scientist Jesse Poland. Half a world away, Poland – an associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas [...]

By Karla Jenkins, UNL Cow/Calf Specialist The Range Beef Cow Symposium XXV will be held in Cheyenne, Wyoming at Little America November 28-30, 2017. This year the program format has been altered somewhat to accommodate more interactive learning. This year there will be meat cutting demonstrations and plant ID opportunities in the vendor area. On [...]

  The International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) is now accepting bull listings for its 2018 Semen Directory.   The World Brangus Congress presents the greatest opportunity to our members to promote CSS-qualified bulls to the world market! We will be producing, publishing and distributing the semen directory for members to showcase their CSS-qualified bulls and market semen [...]

There’s a new kind of farm going up north of Canton, in southeastern South Dakota.Its barns will house cattle like many farms in the area have done for more than a century, but these cattle won’t be raised for their meat or milk. They’ll be producing antibodies that can treat human diseases. Gov. Dennis Daugaard [...]

Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Extension October is a traditional weaning and culling time for spring-calving herds. Weaning for value-added calf sales is already underway. This is a time when producers decide which cows no longer are helpful to the operation and which heifer calves will be kept for future replacements. Selecting against ill-tempered cattle [...]

The International Brangus Breeders Association’s (IBBA) staff actively pursues ways to collect valid data for generating new measures of expected progeny differences. The Carcass Merit Excellence Challenge program provides an opportunity for producers to know the quality of carcasses produced in their individual programs. The data collected and evaluated  in this program will provide information [...]