Index of Online Feature Stories

Because our readers pay for their subscriptions to The Cattleman, either as a member of Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association or as a direct subscriber, we only publish a couple of select articles from each issue on our web site. These samples articles should give you an idea of the variety of topics we cover, and we have organized our online articles below to help you find information on a specific topic.

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2008 Sample Articles

2007 Sample Articles

2006 Sample Articles

• An Assured Public and a Clean Environment, February 2008
• Top Seven Reasons Pasture Weed Control Programs Don't Work, January 2008
• Best Places for the Best Advice, December 2007
• Artificial Insemination: Can Work for Commercial Producers, November 2007
• Care of New Bulls, October 2007
• Strategies to Increase Doe Harvest, September 2007
• Plan Winter Grazing This Summer, August 2007
• Four Keys to High Pregnancy Rates, July 2007
• Preparing for the Next Drought
• Guidelines for Controlling Internal Parasites in Cattle - Apr 07
• Make Calving Difficulty Minimal with the Right Heifers and Bulls -Mar 07
• Cold Stress in Calves - Feb 07
• Intervention Can Save Calves  - Jan 07
• Selecting Heifers for Replacements - Dec 06
• Nutritional Management of Beef Bulls - Nov 06
• Bull Selection: An Investment in Your Beef Herd’s Future -Oct 06
• Improve Body Condition Scores To Improve Pregnancy, Weaning and Profits - Sept 06
• Fine Tuning Mineral Management for Beef Cattle - Aug 06
• Update on Neosporosis - July 06
• Johne’s Disease - June 06
• Production Improvement: Holistic Approach to Increasing Calf Production - May 06
• Suppressing Stable Fly and Horn Fly Populations - April 06
• How Effective are Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases of Cattle? - Mar 06
• Value of Selecting Bulls for High Potential Fertility - Feb 06
• Pregnancy Rates can be Increased by Feeding Oilseeds in Late Gestation - Jan 06
  
   

• Seven Things You Should Know About BVD – Nov 99
• Lice Control: Catch ‘em Early and Kill ‘em – Nov 99
• The Cost of Going to the Country - Nov 00
• West Nile Virus - Jan 01
• Packing a Biological Punch - Sept 01
• Neosporosis: Sick as a Dog - Nov 01
• Don't Drown in a Disease Reservoir - Nov 01
• Where is West Nile? - Jan 02
• Disease Self-Defense - Aug 02
• A New Threat from an Old Enemy - Dec 02
• Una nueva amenaza de un viejo enemigo - Dec 02
• Rancher's Management Guide - May 03
• A Different Kind of Risk Management - Dec 03
• Increase Profits By Deworming Your Nursing Beef Calves - April 04
• Spring Cleaning Helps To Control Stable Flies - April 04

• Beef Quality in Texas - Oct 00
• Beef Quality in Texas: Where Do You Begin? - Nov 00
• Beef Quality in Texas: Keeping Good Records - Dec 00
• Beef Quality in Texas: Beef Quality Assurance - What It’s Not - Jan 01
• Beef Quality in Texas: Residue Avoidance, Part 2 - June 01
• Texas Beef Quality Producers ask "What's Next?" - Nov 02

Beef Safety

• Battle of Beef Safety - April 02

• Aug 97
• March 98
• April 98

• The Other Guy's Problem – Oct 98
• A Tender Topic – Nov 98
• What's Driving ID? – Oct 99
• Ideas for ID Systems – Oct 99
• Plan B: Early Weaning - July 2000
• Realizing More Value From Cull Cattle – May 00
• Do You See What I See? - Oct 01
• Engineered Animals - Dec 01
• It's 10:00 a.m., Do You Know Where Your Cattle Are? - Feb 02
• Crossing Fences - April 02
• Send Your Heifers Packing - May 02
• Weighing Your Options - June 02
• From Headgates to Horses - June 02
• What would YOU buy with $10,000? - June 02
• Fast Forward Cooperation - Oct 02
• What Can Doc Do For You? - Oct 02
• Ranching In Extreme Environments - Nov 02
• TSCRA Asks Congress To Repeal Mandatory Provision Of Country-Of-Origin Labeling Law - May 03
• The Sooner The Better - October 03
• Teaching the Stockmanship Instinct - Nov 03
• Made To Order - April 04
• More Pounds of Beef - Oct 04
• End of the Line – Nov 04

• Life After Drought – Nov 98

• Price Discovery: No Easy Answers – Sept. 97
• Ranchers Management Guide – Dec 97
• Is Your Ranch a Money Maker? – April 98
• Ranchers' Management Guide – May 98
• Fat of the Land – July 98
• Market Message – Oct 98
• Update on Mexico's Cattle Industry – Dec 98
• Market Message – June 99
• Something Good is Happening – July 99
• Bringing Back Beef Demand – Sept 99
• Trailing Extra Dollars – Jan 2000
• Q & A with Auction Market Operators - July 2000
• Catching Cattle on Tape - March 02
• Small Town Survival - March 02
• Fall Forecast: Stay Flexible - July 02
• A New Measure Of Efficiency - May 03
• When People Trade, Countries Benefit_- Sept_03
• Sales and The Cities - Dec 03
• How Do Your Financial Management Practices Measure Up? - Oct 04
• Make Trees Work For You - Feb 05
• Value-Added Management and Marketing Practices - April 05

• Is There a Best Time to Feed Cattle? – Sept 98
• Fast Forward – Sept 99
• Feedyard Consolidation: Fact or Fiction? - Sept 02

• Mapping a New Route to Genetic Selection – Oct 97
• Buying Bulls for Tomorrow - Oct 00
• Where Do You Stand? - Oct 01
• Cloned From a Carcass - July 03
• Faster. Easier. Cheaper - August 03
• Better Cows Make Better Teachers - October 03

Horse Topics

• Nutrition and Feeding Management of Broodmares - Jan 01
• Building Horses at the Four Sixes - Jan 02
• Toxic in Texas - Jan 02
• Horse Power - Jan 04
• An All-Around Competition for All-Around Horses - Jan 04
• Manage Your Mares for a Successful Breeding Season - Jan 04
• Equine First Aid - Jan 05
• Learning From Everything - Jan 05

• Over and Over Again – April 99
• When the IRS is at Your Door -- April 99
• Over and Over Again, Part II – May 99
• Hometown Trailers For Sale – July 99
• Estate Planning: Scratching the Surface – Dec 99
• Stock Show Season 2000 – Jan 00
• The British Experience - Sept 00
• Innovative Education - Dec 00
• Over the River and Through the Ranch - March 01
• Seedstock Report - June 01
• Early Day Hereford Breeders in Texas - Aug 01
• Executive Vice President’s Report - Aug 01
• Mexico Today - Dec 01
• A Fence for All Reasons - June 03
• I Was There When - July 03
• Tenth TSCRA School Will Work The Body and the Mind - Oct 03
• Great Gadgets for Christmas! - Nov 03
• The Business of Cooperation, a Spirit of Competition - Dec 03
• Safe Shopping: How to Protect Yourself Online - Feb 04
• Willing To Serve - March 04
• Is Texas Still An Open-Range State? - April 04
• Five Things To Understand About Retailers - July 04

• Of Things That Concern Cattlemen – Feb 98
• Of Things That Concern Cattlemen – Nov 99
• Of Things That Concern Cattlemen – Jan 01
• Of Things That Concern Cowmen - June 01
• Of Things That Concern Cowmen - July 01
• Rancher's Management Guide - Aug 01

• Nutrition Costs: Measure Twice, Cut Carefully – Nov 97
• Rancher's Management Guide – Nov 97
• Guiding the American Fork - April 01
• Common Cow-Calf Nutrition Questions - April 02
• What Do They Really Eat? - April 2003
• Tips on Winter Supplementation of Beef Cattle - Nov 03

• Straight Talk with Hereford Breeders – Aug 97
• Smart Enough to Bend – Dec 97
• The Best of Both Cultures – Jan 98
• First Things First – Feb 98
• Lo Mejor de las Dos Culturas – Jan 98
• Inside the Mind of Bill Jacobs – March 98
• In Their Own Words – May 98
• Young Cattle Raisers On Their Way Up – March 99
• The Ranch that Rodeo Built – Aug 99
• Spotlight on Small Producers – Dec 99
• Sold on Herefords - Aug 00
• Frederick Drummond, Intellectual Cowboy - Sept 00
• Preservation at Heart - Dec 00
• Six Days 'Til Show Time - July 01
• One Boot Led to Another - Sept 01
• Qualities of a Cattleman - March 02
• Can't See the Cattle for the Trees - May 02
• A Woman's Work is Never Done - July 02
• Case Ranch Herefords: 60 Years and Going Strong - Aug 02
• A Rancher First - March 03
• Customer Driven and Called to Glory - June 03
• Sellin' Em Right - July 03
• Inventions, Alternatives, Conservation - Aug 03
• The Principles for the Future - Aug 03
• King Ranch Institute - Aug 03
• More Than Just A Ranch - Aug 03
• A Lifetime Of Cow Sense - July 04
• This Is A True Story - July 04
• Open Gates - Nov 04
• Good Bulls, Good Hunters Make Good Tools - Dec 04

Ranch and People Management

• The Best Hours - March 04
• A Practical Prescription - Feb 05
• The Right Kind Of Fire - Feb 05
• Goats As Brush Control - Feb 05
• The Power – and the Purpose — of Relationships - March 05
• Getting and Keeping Good Employees - March 05

• Ranchers' Management Guide – May 98
• To Lease or Not To Lease – Aug 98
• Wildlife Tail Wags the Dog – Feb 99
• Making Every Drop Count – Feb 99
• The New Texas Armadillo – Aug 99
• The Art of Coexistence – Feb 00
• Pay Dirt – Feb 01
• Enemy of the State - Feb 02
• Triple Whammy! - Feb 02
• Managing For Healthy Rangelands - April 2003
• Brush Bustin' 101 - Feb 2004
• Friends Because Of A Flower - March 04
• No Power Lines? No Problem! - May 04
• What's the Fate of Rainfall in Your Pasture? - May 04
• Putting Steel in South Texas - June 04
• Caring for your Elders - June 04
• Hydraulics 101 - Oct 04
• Maintaining Water Quality Through Water Analysis - Dec 04
• Ranch Preservation Communities: An Alternative To Ranchettes - Jan 05
• Support Microbes to Support Grass Production - April 05
• Can Brush Control Increase Water Supply in Texas? - April 05

• Trading Help – Dec 98
• A New View - June 03
• Adding Hurdles - Sept 03
• On A Collision Course - May 04
• From the Ground Up: A Look at Grazing Distribution - March 05

• Cattle Raisers Told They Must Reinvent Beef – June 98
• It's a Matter of Security – Jan 99
• Tentative Agenda for the TSCRA 122^nd Annual Convention and Trade Show – March 99
• Thieves in the Night – May 99
• Uptown in Cowtown – June 99
• President's Page – Dec 99
• Convention to Spotlight Good News About Beef – Feb 00
• Producers Must Adjust to Changes in Cattle Industry – June 00
• President's Report – June 00
• Media and Politicians Swarm 124th Annual TSCRA Convention - May 01
• Water Heads the 2003 Legislative Outlook List - Dec 02
• And The Winners Are... - Sept 03
• Son wins over Dad in the 2003 Ranch to Rail Contest - Oct 03
• 2005 School for Successful Ranching Features Low-Stress Stockmanship - Dec 04

Weather

• The Way of the Weather - July 00
• The Way of the Weather - March 01

• All Things Wild – June 98
• Identifying Predator losses - Aug 00
• The Price of Doing Business - Aug 02
• Pretty Birds, Pretty Cats and Even Pretty Snakes - March 03
• Scarce And Elusive - April 2003
• Talkin' Turkey in Texas - April 05