Month: October 2025

Market Trends
Market Trends By Chris McClure Contributing Editor The news is all of prices paid and markets going higher. But we all know that’s going

CALF’S Featured Lady: Kelly Smith-Fraser
By Patti Wilson Contributing Editor Who’s watching out for your well-being? It might be Kelly Smith-Fraser of Innisfail, Alberta, Canada. Smith-Fraser runs her family’s 100-cow,

Brother Sebastian’s Steak House & Winery
By Linda Lockwood Contributing Editor Earlier this summer, my husband and I travelled to Omaha, Neb., for the weekend. Our primary focus was to

A History Lesson on Brucellosis
By Patti Wilson Contributing Editor Bangs. Brucellosis. You have all heard of it; anyone my age or older has a pretty good chance of

Whitt & Wisdom: Something for Nothing
By Jim Whitt Contributing Editor The Russians are Coming; The Russians are Coming was a comedy released in theatres in 1966. The plot involved a
AMAHA: Agriculture Makes America Healthy Again
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor With the presidential election now nearly a year in the rearview mirror, much has transpired at a rapid pace. Being

U.S. Offers Sanctuary to Canadian Outlaw Ostriches
By Will Verboven Contributing Editor I expect many readers would be unaware of American involvement in a comic melodrama that has been unfolding in the

Failure to Communicate
By Chris McClure Contributing Editor We depend on communication. Even when our tasks are primarily spent alone, we require communication. We communicate with our environment,

Lessons From the Pasture Gate: Biosecurity, Beef and Building Trust
By Megan Webb Contributing Editor Fall has a rhythm all its own. The air cools, the hillsides turn gold, and cattle trailers begin rolling as

GET A GRIPP! Contestants Share $900,000 Payout at Memorial Roping
By Larry Stalcup Contributing Editor In its traditional form, the Spicer Gripp Memorial Roping Committee in Hereford, Texas, staged one of the nation’s largest