NEWS

Watch calving on TV in the comfort of your home on a wireless camera with night vision in protective housing. Receive clear, color pictures up to 2,000 feet away. The Koehn Calf-cam is waterproof, weatherproof, wide angle and is in a protective case for years of service.

The all-new Hesston® 1363 10-foot side-pull disc mower conditioner by Massey Ferguson® provides beef producers cutting and conditioning innovations designed for making high-quality hay.

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is reintroducing to the United States market the Vista^® vaccine line, which provides beef cattle veterinarians and producers with the most complete protection available against the most common and costly bovine respiratory and reproductive diseases.

Feeder cattle demand, trading activity, and price levels for the opening month of 2011 were all unprecedented with feeder cattle over 600 pounds trading $7 to $15 higher and calves under 600 pounds selling $13.00 to $18 higher than 2010’s closing markets. Market watchers basically ran out of superlatives to use in trying to describe January’s feeder markets; most are down to just saying that they never saw anything like it, but the reality is – no one has ever saw anything like it before.

Casey Anderson, manager of the OX Ranch near Bear, Idaho, doesn’t measure the recovery of wolves in the same perspective as federal agencies, which follow merely the number of dens and pups.