Beef cattle producers are both some of the most patient people in the world, and some of the most impatient. When weather and/or market conditions get tough, some producers get so impatient that they immediately abandon their production goals and start cutting costs...

It’s a question we are asked regularly: “How much should I be feeding my cows?” It is a valid question with meaningful tradeoffs – on one hand, we want to minimize the largest variable cost in a cow-calf business, while on the other, we yearn for maximum reproductive...