Myles Gardner believes bread-and-butter jobs make the biggest difference when it comes to building a cattle operation. It's a seasoned philosophy for a 29-year-old. It's also proving itself on a daily basis.

Always on the hunt for ways to boost profits, Tommy Mead has been looking forward to a new marketing program that will highlight the value of his cross-bred cows. It represents the coming together of two giants in the beef industry--the American Hereford Association...

Regardless of whether a livestock producer is lucky enough to have an abundance of forages or barely enough to get through the season, the concern about waste is universal. The secret may be a willingness to walk away from an area that, by many standards, is still...

In his role as Texas A&M Extension Veterinarian, Tom Hairgrove visits ranches from one end of Texas to the other. Whether they are Texas-sized or tiny, arid or humid, there's one message he'd like to give all ranchers: Test first, deworm second.

One simple tool can help any cattle producer make good nutritional decisions, sort animals correctly and even predict reproductive success. Known simply as "BCS," it's a technique of assigning a body condition score to every cow in the herd and managing her based on that...

Regardless of where cattle graze, there are ways to maximize productivity. Few places make that more challenging than the Southern Plains, where producers need to graze herds efficiently while raising crops and utilizing conservation practices that often include cover crops.

Fresh thinking combined with an entrepreneurial spirit led Sage Askin down an unconventional path as a successful young rancher.