One of the possibilities current market conditions present is the opportunity for cow-calf producers to capitalize on increasing cow value. (Photo by Troy Walz.)

Will you capitalize on increasing cow value? 

Dave Bergmeier

5 points to keep in mind 

Timothy Porch, research geneticist at U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, left, and Carlos Urrea, Nebraska Extension dry bean breeding specialist, scout a plot of dry beans. (Photo by Chelsea Didinger.)

Dry bean breeders collaborate on climate-savvy bean

Heat remains the story for the Plains

Soybeans (Journal stock photo.)

Drought, record heat threaten US soybean crop at critical growing stage

Heat continues to put pressure on drought conditions

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

USDA offers relief to livestock producers to haul water, hay

The ADM terminal, Salina, Kansas, looks like it’s painted in gold, or at least amber, as a rainbow arches over the horizon following a recent thunderstorm. (Journal photo by Tim Unruh.)

Bummer of a summer