Facilities & Equipment

With winter quickly approaching, preparing your ranch’s cattle-handling equipment, buildings and machinery becomes time sensitive. It’s critical that livestock are handled safely and that handlers remain productive even when Mother Nature drops the temperature.

Identifying the best weigh scale set-up for your individual operation can be a weighty decision.

Areas of the U.S. have witnessed the growing use of monoslope buildings for beef operations as feedyards expand and adapt, but this trend hasn’t established itself in all cattle-raising regions.

Cold weather can present challenges for watering cattle, especially in areas with no access to electricity for tank heaters.

Typically, when technology is mentioned in an agricultural setting, producers’ thoughts turn to GPS-guided tractors, digital ultrasound equipment or record-keeping software and hardware.

The concept of virtual fences to contain cattle has intrigued beef producers for several years.