As we move into early summer, cattle producers may be noticing increased numbers of flies on their cattle. Horn flies are very common on beef cattle in our region and annual losses in production and ...

Pasture fly season is approaching and now is the time to evaluate your horn fly management plan for the 2018 grazing season. First, re-evaluate last year’s plan. Did it provide adequate fly control?

At Miles Smith Farm, we have two kinds of cattle: Scottish Highlanders and Angus/Hereford cross-breeds. There are many differences between these breeds, but one is particularly striking. The ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Cattle producers fear yet another animal welfare campaign, this time over the practice of dehorning ...

Beef cattle can weigh 1,000 pounds or more, so it is ironic one of the most detrimental antagonists to cattle are insects weighing only milligrams. Horn flies, or Haematobia irritans, are an extreme ...

Non-farmers (or really anyone who doesn’t deal with the issue) may not realize that dehorning cattle is not like trimming a fingernail. Armin Capaul, a small-scale rancher and farmer, initiated a ...

Kathy Smith actually heard the almonds coming before she saw them. “It’s 11:30 at night, we are trying to sleep, and those tractors are ripping the land right outside our bedroom,” she recalls. She ...

While walking his dog on a beach in the northwestern part of Wales, a man picked up an unusual piece of the debris. Little did he know that what he was holding at the time was a 3,000 year old horn ...

Kansas State University is monitoring an invasive tick that has appeared in the Sunflower State, which can make infected ...

At Miles Smith Farm, we have two kinds of cattle: Scottish Highlanders and Angus/Hereford cross-breeds. There are many differences between these breeds, but one is particularly striking. The ...