Stocker operations are grass-based production systems fitting between the cow-calf producer and feedyards. These operations ...

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 ...

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 2.00 to 5.00 higher. Demand remains good to very good in local livestock auctions nationwide this week. In the Plains, many loads of cattle were on offer ...

Price activity in the feeder cattle market has been bearish since the middle of August. Historically, this should not be surprising as the feeder cattle contracts tend to post highs in late spring ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Despite the United States' long and storied past with cattle ranching, long-term research on health, nutrition and management is rarely wrangled, hamstrung by budget constraints and the segmented ...

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 ...

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 ...