A lot of factors can go into fencing decisions, in particular as some costs go up and a few materials see reduced availability.
ST. ROSE, Ill. — Paul Meyer still gets to work at 4 a.m. every day. But he doesn’t face the same stresses he did a decade ago.
NORWALK, Iowa — Melissa Wubben grew up on a diversified farm in Worth County, Iowa, and always yearned for a return to her roots.
SALISBURY, Mo. — For seedstock producers, when to start having production sales can be a big decision. For Charles Henke, the time was right i…
After a two-year hiatus caused by foreign animal disease concerns and the COVID-19 global pandemic, the World Pork Expo returns to the Iowa St…
While the world’s attention focuses primarily on African swine fever, there are plenty of domestic diseases for U.S. pork producers to battle.
HIGGINSVILLE, Mo. — On his Lafayette County farm, Mike Williams displays the skeleton of a Hampshire boar called “Roughneck,” an example of wh…
With high feed prices, swine producers are looking to maximize feed efficiency.
Piglets born to heat-stressed sows may carry the burden of their mom’s discomfort later in life in the form of health complications and dimini…
Nick Anderson started showing cattle several years ago, then started selling show calves during his last year of college.
A Pork Checkoff webinar May 19 took a look at potential supply chain disruptors, as well as the overall demand outlook for pork. Jayson Lusk, …
It’s not just consumers getting riled up about rising beef prices. Cattle producers are, too.
Nearly 50 years ago, in September 1973, Everett Forkner sold a Duroc boar that made history, bringing a record $38,000 in the sale at the Nati…
Editor’s note: The following was written by Michael Langemeier, associate director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue Universi…
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — High grain prices will likely put pressure on hay and forage availability across the upper Midwest this year.
MASON CITY, Ill. — There he is in all his glory. A photograph of the famous bull who traveled the country by boxcar in his heyday, from show t…
After a challenging year of cancellations and rescheduling, youth livestock exhibitors are excited to get back to normal when it comes to show…
Cattle finishing returns should strengthen this summer as the industry works through higher feed costs and smaller calf crops.
Manure in swine pits is a valuable fertilizer to crop production. However, because of the high water content, it gets expensive to carry very …
Manure management could be the key in decreasing the development of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
Mention the name Choctaw Chief 373 to Bob Hough, and there is a sense of reverence in his reply.
HAMILTON, Mo. — Seventy years ago this spring, in 1951, Harold Henry and a few other workers hand dug a grave for J.C. Penney’s enormous Eilee…
Missouri is a prolific beef cattle producing state, with over 2 million beef cows and usually abundant forage growth, and ag economists are ca…
Like most sectors of agriculture, COVID-19 took a bite out of the cattle industry. But nearly 14 months after the start of the pandemic, Dan L…
Shawn Shouse says if there was ever a winter that validated the expense of a feedlot windbreak, it was the last one.
EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. — Despite the name, Beefmaster cattle aren’t the first choice most producers make for carcass quality and terminal traits.
It’s every rancher’s goal to learn how to create more forage per acre, and doing so means resolving tough pasture issues like fescue, weeds, s…