Victoria Myers

Make decisions about creep feeding based on access to grazing and whether the dam was a first-calf heifer.

Modest prices increases are expected for cattle producers moving into 2021.

Increased packer capacity is most likely to come through the addition of small to medium-sized operations, processing 1,000 to 2,000 head per day. (Progressive Farmer photo by Victoria G. Myers)

It's usually the simple health problems that cost cattle operations the most in terms of time and money.

This year the cull market is holding up unusually well, giving producers in drought areas an opportunity to save forages and bump up returns.

Genetics, feeders and the right rations can make big impacts in feeding costs.

Weather-driven livestock sales get a small reprieve from the IRS.

Two questions top of mind right now. Sell or hold cull cows? Sell or retain ownership on calves? The best answer in both cases is tied to one thing -- feed resources and costs.

Body condition and weight on replacement heifers plays a key role in their long-term reproductive success.

Young livestock producers looking for a start, shifted from a cattle operation to the Tunis sheep business—a move that has created unexpected opportunity.

A combination of supplements, production-based feeding and accurate herd weights can all help save money when it comes time to feed hay this year.

Veteran Texas cattleman Bill O'Brien said blockchain is a public ledger of all transactions in a market and added it can be done in a confidential manner.

Cattle producers may get stuck with a solution they don't like if they don't speak out about options for improved price-discovery in the beef market.

Agricultural economist Stephen Koontz says his work has been used to bolster a plan for mandating cash markets, but they've got it all wrong.

Veteran Texas cattleman Bill O'Brien says blockchain is a public ledger of all transactions in a market, and adds it can be done in a confidential manner.