Mary Powell of Barnyard Weed Warriors, shows off one of her hard working colleagues. (Courtesy photo.)

Drastic measures can benefit operation

(Photo courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife.)

Lesser prairie-chicken continues to make the news

Tyson to close 4 chicken processing plants

Tyson to close 4 chicken processing plants

Keeping cattle healthy during summer (Courtesy photo.)

A No. 2 pencil is a beef producer’s best tool

Katahdin sheep grazing Indiangrass, big bluestem, little bluestem mix during D3 drought in Truxton, Missouri. (Photo by Rusty Lee.)

Native warm-season grasses help feed livestock through drought

Plant-based meat sales are struggling against the real thing pictured here. (Photo by Mitchell Alcala, OSU Agriculture.)

Meat processing plants grow with local consumer demand

UW cattle on summer grazing grounds at the McGuire Ranch, located outside Laramie. (Photo courtesy of University of Wyoming Extension.)

Wyoming Beef Cattle Symposium registration now open

Alisa Halpin (left) floats a least tern egg in a cup of water to determine the age of the nest; the buoyancy of the egg shows how many days old the eggs are. Her daughter, Summer Larkihn, marks the number of the nest on a rock for future reference as part of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership. (Photo courtesy of Sophia Balunek.)

Mother-daughter pair pursues conservation of Nebraska’s terns, plovers

  • By Geitner Simmons │ University of Nebraska-Lincoln