In a recent Tri-State Livestock News article titled "Examining cow-calf costs", Ivan Rush talks about the need to analyze costs of your cattle production, specifically that producing high quality cattle that are in demand can produce better economics … [Read more...]

Finally, some positive news on the cattle front (though it's more on the long term end)...an expanding beef export market is contributing to finished cattle prices. Plus, the economy is on the mend and consumers are becoming more comfortable … [Read more...]

Running cattle on a 16,000 acre ranch can be a challenge, and especially keeping track of inventory and identification. By using CattleMax, Tim Turner DVM, and his daughter Amanda Turner Horak, reduce costs by seeing which cows are unproductive and … [Read more...]

Earlier this summer when Penny and & I were "vacationing" at a marketing conference, a colleague who knew I was involved in the cattle industry asked if I had met "the beef guy". I said no and so he introduced to Bruce McLeod, the owner of … [Read more...]

Eddy Sanders and his family first started raising Yaks in 2004 and have built their ranch into a thriving business called Grunniens Ranch which is located in Colorado. They use CattleMax for their record keeping, everything from printing inventory … [Read more...]

The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) is hosting a 2-day event called the "Young Leadership Series Professional Development Workshop". There will be one in Ft Worth on August 27-28 and another in Austin (October 1-2). The … [Read more...]

The annual Beef Cattle Short Course at Texas A&M has come and gone. What a great time we all had visiting with everyone! The CattleMax booth in the trade show area, manned by our customer service representatives, Ken and Nathan, was busy … [Read more...]

For the 10th straight year, we will be at the Beef Cattle Short Course taking place at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas on August 2-4. This 3-day course is an incredible opportunity to learn more about cattle production, … [Read more...]

It's always interesting to hear about rancher's backgrounds and their start in the cattle industry. For Carl Andersen, cattle ranching had always been an interest and, after a career of teaching at Texas Tech University, this became a reality. Now, … [Read more...]

I was saddened today to learn that Gov. Dolph Briscoe had passed away at the age of 87.  I remember meeting him several years ago at the TSCRA Convention & Tradeshow while I was working our tradeshow booth. It wasn't uncommon for attendees to … [Read more...]