When Malcomb Pegues drives through the pastures at the Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center, he doesn't have to rely on his memory to track cows or cleanup bulls. Everything he needs to know is on his smartphone, compliments of the CattleMax software he uses.

When Chandler Lindsley picked up the reins as manager of her family's Backbone Ranch in 2011, she already had a good idea about how best to utilize the resources she had inherited.

As spring finally moved into parts of the Midwest, cattle producers had seen prices on some hay supplies increase more than 10 times compared to year-ago levels.

The summers are getting hotter and hotter," Alex Miller contends. That prompted the New Market, Tennessee, cattleman two years ago to buy a couple of Senepol bulls for his 225-head commercial cow herd. His goal was to breed more heat tolerance into the Angus and...

Jeff Hall believes most cow/calf operations have animals that are mineral deficient--especially when it comes to copper. It's a conclusion he's reached after thousands of blood and liver biopsy tests in herds across the country. And, it's convinced him there's a big potential...

I've rarely been to a cattle operation where a clostridial vaccine wasn't part of the health protocol. Turns out, giving that two-, four-, seven- or eight-way, along with an injectable IBR vaccine, might be a mistake.

Joy Reznicek has heard all the reasons she should want to replace Kentucky 31 fescue with a novel endophyte, but at Mississippi's Town Creek Farm, they are taking the change slowly with an eye toward cost versus return.