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.

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...

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.