August 2024

Example of 2026 meat prices. (UADA image)
Beef, beef, Home and Family

Beefing up dinner without the big price tag

Beef prices giving you sticker shock? Here's how alternative cuts, bulk purchases and cooking methods can help stretch your food budget. Read More

Pets need to be able to cool off during extreme heat to avoid heat stroke. Good hydration is also necessary. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)
Animal Health, Home and Family, Pets

Why dogs and cats can’t ‘sweat out’ summer heat

Beef, Cow Calf, economy, Government, Lacey Vilhauer, Livestock, Livestock Markets, USDA

USDA launches Ranchers First Initiative to support beef producers 

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Farm state senators urge Vilsack to improve drought response

A field of wheat with poor tillering and low vigor, growing on a field with a soil pH of 4.6. (Photo: K-State Research and Extension)

Lime acidic soils after long-term nitrogen applications

  • By Jacob Klaudt │ K-State Research and Extension news service
A farmer plants soybeans into a cover crop stand of cereal. (Photo courtesy of Jason Johnson/Iowa NRCS)

Collaboration to explore impact of cover crops

Trent On The Loos

Trent on the Loos and Across the Pond Video Stream August 30, 2024

USDA Supervisory Agricultural Commodity Graders (Meat) correlate on beef at their annual national beef correlation event, August 13, 2019. (USDA Photo by Preston Keres)

Is the cow jumping over the moon more moonshot or nonsensical?

Kansas State Fair marks a milestone for The Grand Drive

A drone aerial photo of the Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center. (Photo courtesy of Emily Hanson, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.)

UNL delves deeply into cattle feedlot studies

Kansas State University men’s head basketball coach Jerome Tang spoke to livestock producers Aug. 21 at the Hy-Plains Feedyard research center. (Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier.)

K-State coach shares wisdom with livestock producers