NEWS

The calendar is one of our main management tools on the farm. Calendars assists us in looking at what needs to be done in the immediate days to come and what we need to be planning to do in the months and years to come. If you have always wanted to tighten the calving season, let your calendar and reminders be your guide.

Australian producers are facing catastrophic losses of an estimated 500,000 head of cattle from torrential monsoon rains that have turned dry paddocks to rivers and washed stranded stock into the floods or left them smothered in lakes of mud.

Nearly 9,000 people attended the 2019 National Cattleman’s Beef Association Convention and Trade Show in New Orleans Jan. 29 through Feb. 1, including the Progressive Cattleman team.

CattleFax CEO Randy Blach informed attendees at the CattleFax outlook seminar at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s annual convention in New Orleans on Jan. 31 that the U.S. cattle industry is nearing a peak in production and profit in the cattle market cycle.

The majority of Progressive Cattleman readers do not use portable working facilities.