(Journal stock photo.)

Mediocrity should never be a goal for cattle producers

Cattle in feedlot in West Texas. (iStock │ #174479340 - dhughes9)

Livestock Calendar September 26 2025

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.)

Drought easing in parts of central U.S.

Raw beef meat on a dark wooden board. (Adobe Stock │ #166587845 - bit24)

Better beef for your budget

Cattle producers to receive tax relief from the IRS 

Hereford cattle may be more likely to get pinkeye than other breeds. (K-State Research and Extension news service)

Reducing the risk of pinkeye

Salt water leak kills over 28 cattle in Oklahoma 

CAST Animal Group Tour Casey Owens, professor of poultry science, leads a tour of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station's poultry processing pilot plant. The Center for Scalable and Intelligent Automation in Poultry Processing, established by a $5 million USDA-NIFA grant, aims to adapt robotic automation to the poultry processing industry. (UA System Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller)

Future of poultry processing includes automation, robotics and virtual reality headsets

  • By John Lovett │ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture