Eric Smith has raised stocker cattle for years, but he's making cattle production a larger art of his operation as cotton becomes harder to grow.

Environmental conditions have handed a mixed bag to stocker cattle producers this year. Stocker cattle need adequate forage to get them to the next level in the production cycle as feeder cattle or ...

I hear several cattlemen who buy lots of stocker cattle say that it is a lot harder to keep these calves alive when weaning them than it used to be—particularly when buying these unweaned calves, ...

Price activity in the feeder cattle market has been bearish since the middle of August. Historically, this should not be surprising as the feeder cattle contracts tend to post highs in late spring ...

Compared to last week, steer and heifer calves sold 3.00 to 7.00 higher, with the biggest advance on the lighter weight calves. Yearling steers and heifers sold 2.00 to 5.00 higher as demand was good ...

Auburn's Max Runge shares four considerations for famers considering using crop residue to custom grow cattle.

The winter grazing season is once again here for Oklahoma producers. Much of the winter forage has been put in the ground, and producers are counting on rain to produce good forage this fall.

Generally stocker operators consider 7 percent or less morbidity — or illness — to be low risk and 27.5 percent or above to be high risk (Table 1). Research data show 10.3 deaths per 1,000 head of ...

Compared to last week, steers and heifers sold 4.00 to 10.00 higher. Good to very good demand for steers and heifers, auction receipts remain light as auction markets remain on their summer schedules ...

A survey distributed to the Texas stocker cattle industry by Texas A&M University System agricultural agencies will help collect vital trend data to assist in meeting future research and educational ...

Compared to last week, steer and heifers sold uneven nationwide. The South Central and Southeast regions were steady to 3.00 higher. Large runs of calves in the Northern Plains were steady to 3.00 ...

Compared to last week, steers and heifers sold 4.00 to 10.00 higher. Good to very good demand for all weights of steers and heifers as the cash fed cattle market reached new all-time record high ...