Environmental conditions have handed a mixed bag to stocker cattle producers this year. Stocker cattle need adequate forage to get them to the next level in the production cycle as feeder cattle or ...

If you run a stocker or backgrounding operation, you already know how important cattle gain is to the profitability and long-term sustainability of your business. Small optimizations to pasture ...

Compared to last week, steers and heifers sold 3.00 to 7.00 higher. Demand reported as good to very good in most locations this week, especially in mid to later week sales after higher trends in the ...

I hear several cattlemen who buy lots of stocker cattle say that it is a lot harder to keep these calves alive when weaning them than it used to be—particularly when buying these unweaned calves, ...

Compared to last week, steers and heifers sold uneven; 2.00 lower to 2.00 higher. After last week’s sharp increase in grazing calf values, aggressiveness of buyers was tempered somewhat this week.

Generally stocker operators consider 7 percent or less morbidity — or illness — to be low risk and 27.5 percent or above to be high risk (Table 1). Research data show 10.3 deaths per 1,000 head of ...

AMARILLO -- Stocker cattle health always vbeen a challenge, but the challenge has increased over the years and producers may need to beef up their management plans, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife ...

Maybe you know them as a savvy buyer of “odds and ends” at the sale barn. Perhaps they are a cow-calf operator who holds back some steers for extra profit. Or, they run a crackerjack starting yard.

Andrew Griffith, University of Tennessee Extension livestock economist, shares with us this week good information on cattle prices in 2014: It probably goes without saying that cattle prices in 2014 ...

The winter grazing season is once again here for Oklahoma producers. Much of the winter forage has been put in the ground, and producers are counting on rain to produce good forage this fall.

When you think of boosting animal immunity, you may think of vaccines. These products are important to an effective receiving program; however, having animals on a good plane of nutrition is critical ...

Compared to last week, steer and heifer calves sold 3.00 to 7.00 higher, with the biggest advance on the lighter weight calves. Yearling steers and heifers sold 2.00 to 5.00 higher as demand was good ...