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USDA aid available for flooding and wildfire losses

  • September 12, 2025
  • By HPJ staff
Nursing calf, credit dashcorsch with courtesy from Pixabay.

Managing—and feeding—heifers to grow cattle herd

  • September 12, 2025
  • By David Murray
Cattle from the Gardiner Angus Ranch have benefited from rangeland improvement that has also improved habitat for the lesser prairie-chicken on this 20,000-acre tract south of Ashland, Kansas. (Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier.)

Keep an objective view of the cattle market

  • September 12, 2025
  • By Jerry Nine
David Murray

The future of American beef

  • September 12, 2025
  • By David Murray
Proactive management at calving sets the stage for healthier, more profitable cattle. (K-State Extension news service)

Management strategies for calves

  • September 10, 2025
  • By Chevy-Lynn Vaske │ K-State Extension news service
Even with tariffs on the landscape, cattle prices are forecast to remain high through 2025, according to a recent World Agricultural Supplies and Demand Estimates report. (Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier.)

High Plains cattle sales report

  • September 7, 2025
  • By HPJ staff

Owen selected as chief commercial officer at Ritchie

  • September 6, 2025
  • By HPJ staff
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 remains pesky in parts of the High Plains

  • September 4, 2025
  • By David Simeral
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