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...
by Hannah Baker | May 31, 2024
USDA releases the Crop Production report each month, and hay stocks (hay on farm) are included in the May and December reports. The May 2024 Crop Production report shows that hay stocks in the United States are up 46% year-over-year. However, hay stocks in May of 2023...
