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USDA: Kansas beef cattle numbers lowest since 1999

Scarlett Hagins, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Livestock Association, said the high cost of feeding cattle has led some producers to sell their cattle younger and to hold onto fewer heifers as breeders. A few dairy farms that had closed in prior years reopened recently, said Mike Bodenhausen, executive director of the Kansas Dairy Association. Still, times are tight for Kansas dairy farmers because feeding the cattle has become more expensive. [Read More]

Cattle feeders participate in new KLA educational program

The Kansas Livestock Association’s Feedyard Leadership Program welcomed its first class, consisting of 10 participants from nine Kansas counties, as the first class members met in Topeka. The three-day educational seminar exposed attendees to services provided by KLA and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the legislative and regulatory process and various aspects of beef marketing. The Kansas Beef Council provided cattle feeders with information on how checkoff dollars are used to ... [Read More]

K-State Recognizes 'Top Hands' at 2013 Cattle Feeders College

The “Top Hand” awards were initiated in 2010 to recognize outstanding employees of the maintenance, milling, and cattle divisions of the commercial cattle feeding industry, said Justin Waggoner, beef specialist with K-State Research and Extension and coordinator of the awards and Cattle Feeders College. Dean Patterson and Scott Plankenhorn of Heritage Feedyard in Sublette, Kan., were both nominated by Galen Wright in the cattle and milling divisions. Top Hand award recipients were presented ... [Read More]






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