Beef cow culling hits record lows while dairy cow harvest rises. Steer and heifer numbers also fall significantly ...

Managing a successful business often involves making a series of decisions with the end goal of providing a quality outcome at a profit. In the beef cattle business, one of those decisions is what to ...

In a market defined by record-breaking prices, an unlikely partnership is driving the value of ground beef: 980-lb. carcasses and the lean cull cows needed to balance them out. While fed cattle ...

When deciding on whether or not to sell a cull cow, figure out how long you think you’ll want to keep her and what potential value she would bring you versus what it would be if you sold her today.

Culling and replacement rates are the two numbers that will impact the base cow herd. These numbers are shifted as managers determine how to fit cattle to given resources. The rates are the foundation ...

Fall is catching up to us fast. This time of year, we rightfully spend significant time discussing the calf market, but the cull cow market can create opportunities as well. Clawson is Oklahoma ...

The decision to eliminate someone’s job after years of solid performance is not one that many employers make without serious consideration. In the case of a beef cattle operation, the decision to sell ...

I was left wondering, as England eased into the quarter-finals of the World Cup, where would factory prices be if the tournament had been held in its traditional summer slot? Factory demand here would ...

Federally inspected cow slaughter is released with regional aggregations weekly and data has been released through the first quarter of 2017. The U.S. is grouped into 10 regions, and USDA reports data ...

Not an easy prospect given that the thick end of what cattle were in sheds are gone or, in the words of one farmer I spoke with, “They’re gone-gone”. This saw one agent tell me that by the end of last ...