Cash cattle took the prize for the week with several northern trades at $200 cwt. Some small regionals did pay $201 in a few places. Delivery dates ranged from a couple weeks out to ...

The weekly OKC feeder cattle auction showed 7,342 head for Monday’s sale. Sales were $5-10 higher for feeder steers, with calves $8-13 higher. Feeder heifers and heifer calves were steady.

Consider the response of the animal, is it performing as expected? Do not over-supply into the range where you may negatively affect performance or have considerable environmental excretion. Getting ...

One consistent mistake made by many producers is offering a medicated mixing mineral to their cattle free-choice. “Mixing minerals” are designed to be mixed in feed before offering to cattle to ...

Feed additive insecticides can be included in mineral formulations for cattle. The additives pass through the animals’ digestive system and destroy the developing horn fly maggots in the manure. These ...

Theoretically the co-op could negotiate a better price just because it has so many more animals for sale at a time. Two earlier attempts to put together a marketing cooperative didn’t gel, said Burt ...

Research out of Alberta is testing the viability of feeding canola byproduct to farmed fish, potentially opening up ...

The canola industry would have another revenue stream from sale of ... because fish feed is very expensive,” said Savidov. “It’s actually the most expensive feed in livestock — all kinds ...

If those yields drop below subsistence levels, farmers increase the cultivated acreage but lack the incentive to produce more than they need to feed their families ... into agro-forestry plots, ...

Agents Boyd O'Brien Bartholomew reported a yarding of 253 head of cattle at Moreton sale on Tuesday. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date.