Field reports & practical guides

Build a reviewable feedlot record for corn silage dry matter, ration changes, delivery timing, bunk condition, cattle activity, and feed calls.

Separate cattle shrink from head-count and identity exceptions with a practical receiving record for weights, times, conditions, and source evidence.

A plain-language guide to cattle pinkeye signs, the first four steps to take, summer risk factors, treatment records, and follow-up checks.

A practical research protocol for validating cattle feed-intake AI with electronic feeder ground truth, camera observations, weather, identity, and explicit missing data.

A practical 2026 LIP recordkeeping guide for cattle inventory, event timing, animal losses, identity evidence, movement reconciliation, and FSA review.

See a daily water example by cattle weight and temperature, check trough refill and access, and learn how cameras support feedlot water checks.

A practical research protocol for aligning official H5N1 samples, cattle movements, camera observations, environmental context, and missing evidence.

Why futures, cash fed cattle, feeder cattle, and boxed beef can move differently—and how a feedlot can anchor the discussion in a clean pen record.

The July 2026 Cattle on Feed report explained for feedlot teams, with a practical pen-inventory, cattle-flow, and exception-audit workflow.