Join University of Illinois Extension for a series, “Pasture Improvement: The Basics and Beyond,” that will focus on management strategies to improve pasture productivity and resilience.

The Livestock Marketing Association has announced that applications are now open for its 2026 scholarship programs, offering two opportunities to support students pursuing education and careers connected to the livestock marketing industry.

The U.S. cattle and beef industry enters 2026 with strong but volatile market conditions, as historically tight cattle supplies, record-setting beef demand and elevated policy and weather uncertainty continue to support prices, even as markets appear to near cyclical highs.

Now is the time to reform regulations that have hindered conservation efforts, strengthen protections against the spread of New World screwworm, expand foreign market access for U.S. beef and advance science-based policies that keep beef at the center of the plate.

I just returned from a quick trip to CattleCon, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s annual meeting and trade show. The industry is rapidly growing with technology.

The shop has been getting a workout with all the fix-it projects we had stacked up and the weather has been motivation to move most work indoors.

We got our annual dose of bad winter weather and it has just now left us, as the warmup finally has gotten here and the snowpack has finally all but melted away.

When it comes to highly pathogenic avian influenza, biosecurity is the key to mitigating the risk of disease spread.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is not a dairy-specific virus. It is the same virus that can infect poultry and other species.