Brent Bryant, managing director of Beef Hoop Systems, keeps cattle under a hoop barn at his company's research farm Crops are not the only things wilting in the sweltering summer of 2012; cattle, the ...
IRETON, Iowa — Looking for a way to minimize the stress from weather extremes and mud, Jim and Mary Koopmans have decided to improve their beef operation. With the profit margins narrowing, they want ...