Sort & Cull

This time of year is accompanied by annual stock growers meetings and industry conventions. Map out your schedule to be able to travel to a few key events each year.

Attendees of a cow-calf short course in Atlantic, Iowa learned about calving assistance practices, using some hands-on -- and arms-in -- experience.

It's important to avoid getting tunnel vison and thinking that the cattle industry revolves within its own world.

Between the phase-one trade agreement between the U.S. and China, and cash cattle trade, producers had a lot of balls to juggle staying up to date on last week's business.

The board may have been questionable last week, but by no means was the strength in the cash cattle market questionable.

During the week of Thanksgiving, the cash market jumped $2 to $4, and during this past week of Christmas, the market rose $2 to $3 higher.

As cattlemen reflect upon 2019, many look to 2020 with hope and pray that the upcoming year's market is more fruitful than the last. It's also a good time to give thanks to those who keep the cattle industry alive.

Emotion can easily rally the market just as quickly as it can shatter a market. When market rallies are fueled by nothing but emotion, market participants need to be cautious.

Is $1 higher on last week's weighted average prices good, bad or indifferent?

Cattlemen have seen some pleasant surprises with cash market prices during the holiday season.

Here's another way to keep up to date on the cattle market.

The University of Illinois would like to find their stone dairy cows and pig. Here's the backstory on these historical figures.

Livestock haulers could get a reprieve from federal Hours of Service rules under a bill introduced in Congress last week.

Farmers and ranchers are rightfully happy with the trade deals with Japan and China. But they shouldn't go overboard in their enthusiasm.

DTN's new livestock analyst ShayLe Stewart introduces herself to DTN customers and expresses her hopes to help her fellow cattlemen successfully understand market behavior.

A Twitter campaign is calling on President Donald Trump to take some action that would provide more market fairness in the cattle trade against the four large packers. Meanwhile, the Senate Agriculture Committee will hear about some of these issues Wednesday during a hearing...

DTN's technical analysis of live cattle, feeder cattle and lean hogs.

DTN Associate Editor Cheri Zagurski has an idea about what to call meatless meat products.

Some management scenarios call for saying more, not less.

John Harrington's life was full of incredible stories of long odds with plentiful bounties at the finish line.