by Hannah Baker | Jun 28, 2024
Prices for feeder cattle have well exceeded year ago levels, and that has been a hot topic over the last year. But what about the cull cow market? Steer and heifer prices are important to follow, but cull cows also play an important role in both the cattle market and...
by Marcelo Wallau | Jun 21, 2024
For the past three years, UF/IFAS Extension has offered a fun but challenging educational contest at the at the Florida Cattlemens’ Association Convention in Marco Island, Florida. The Top Rancher Challenge utilized a multiple choice quiz on iPads to...
by jbittar | Jun 14, 2024
It is not new news that the beef industry in the Southeastern U.S. is predominantly made up of cow-calf operations. The total economic impact of Florida cattle ranching totals $2.1 billion annually (FDACS). A key goal of cow-calf operations is to limit the...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 14, 2024
This week’s featured video was published by Solutionaries to highlight research being conducted by Dr. Nico DiLorenzo and his team, at the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center, near Marianna, Florida. According to their website,...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 7, 2024
This week’s featured video was published by the Associated Press (AP) as a companion to their news story: She’s the world’s most expensive cow. Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis was sold at auction for over $4 million in Brazil, which was a world record, according to...
by Hannah Baker | May 31, 2024
Year after year, cattle producers have a calf crop with 50 percent bull calves. Many producers will castrate these bull calves, making them steers, for a multitude of reasons. Two reasons being that steer calves have a higher meat quality and are more docile than bull...
