“One of the reasons quality has improved is selling on a grid for what you produce. We have improved the industry to where we sell 75-80% Choice beef.” Lee Borck offers thoughts and advice on success in the cattle business.

Livestock Outlook: Key indicators signal expansion rate of nation’s beef herd is slowing.

This is the phase in the current cattle cycle that is the most challenging. Your most important management tool is your pencil, as selling weaned calves may not keep you in the black.

A cattle feeder shares a behind-the-scenes look of his interview with a New York Times reporter and why he risked being misrepresented in order to give accurate information about responsible antibiotic use in animal agriculture.

What will calves and feeder cattle fetch five years from now? Ten years? That depends on a lot of things, but two different outlooks took all the factors into consideration and came up with very different conclusions.

Good working conditions help livestock handlers do their jobs safely.

Strong beef demand in 2017 kept cattle prices strong all year. Will demand in 2018 be enough to offset increased production?

Even with more cattle placed on feed in recent months, due to drought, January placements continued higher than many expected.

The dollars flowing into feedyards are also a measure of the dollars that flow upstream to backgrounders, stockers and ultimately, cow-calf producers.