Welfare-focused management practices are safe for humans and cattle and can increase animal performance across all sectors of the beef industry. The best news is that these practices are woven into ...

Andy Dickerson and Nick Hartley stand in a cow pasture at Bahr Farm. Beef cows graze in a pasture at a small farm nestled between Finneytown and College Hill. The 32-acre Bahr Farm has been around ...

Learn the basics of humane farm animal care, including polled genetics in dairy cattle, why are antibiotics given to livestock, and lamb, calf, and piglet castration methods.

July 2024 marks the first time since 2016 that USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service has not published its July Cattle Inventory report, which would typically come out this week and contain ...

USDA’s September 2025 net farm income forecast, released Sept. 3, projects net farm income will rise sharply from 2024. While stronger performance in some sectors is a factor in the increase, much of ...

This 2026 Missouri Ruralist Master Farmer from Sheridan, Mo., spends time advocating for her way of life in order to protect it for the next generation.

Over the years Seth Watkins has won praise for the way he farms. Pinhook Farm, in southern Iowa, grows diverse crops without commercial fertilizers and with limited pesticides. It also tries to tune ...