Cows on green meadow. (iStock │ #519861662 - Toltek)
A Reinke center pivot sprinkler. (Courtesy photo.)
The decision to sell cows from the herd is often influenced by a variety of factors, including her performance, the quality of her offspring, cattle prices and marketing opportunities. (Photo: Kansas State University Research and Extension)

This pail of irrigated corn from a north-central Kansas field, should produce a pleasing yield, but the price is so far disappointing. (Journal photo by Tim Unruh.)
A farmer plants soybeans into a cover crop stand of cereal. (Photo courtesy of Jason Johnson/Iowa NRCS)
OQBN Cattle being sold at t OKC West Stockyards in El Reno on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (Photo by Mitchell Alcala/OSU Agriculture)