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I have some 20 foot continuous fence panels to build a working pen. I have never built this kind of fence before. Since the fence is all metal I would think it expands and contracts a fair amount as temps change. How do you account for this expansion when putting in the corner posts? I assume...

We are in the process of putting up some fence around a field that was row cropped. The ground is too wet to disc right now. Whats left is corn stalks and weeds. Part of it is 9 acres of overgrown native plants that the ground is too uneven to row crop. We are throwing plenty of round bales...

We bought 3 cows from a dispersal sale in mid 2016. All are related. A 6 year old cow, her 4 year old daughter and a 4 month old heifer calf out of the 4 year old. The 6 year old and the calf arrived in good flesh and are in great shape now. The 4 year old came in really thin and has gotten...

I am in Central Texas. I have had oats planted on my pasture for the last two years. This year I would like to put the pasture into coastal. What is the timeline/procedure for getting a field ready to sprig later this spring? The soil is blackland. The pasture is in oats now but it did not come...

Wanting to fence around an acre that will eventually also have a house. Needs to keep cows out and two energetic labradors in. I am thinking on fixed knot fencing 60" high alternating pounded in schedule 40 posts with t posts every 10 feet with one hot wire around the outside for the cow...

We put a field in oats this winter to provide some grazing for our cows. A couple of weeks back I let the girls out on the field for 2 days - all good - they seemed to really like the oats. A week later I put them back on it for 5 days and they still seemed to like the oats but quite a few of...

What size steel pipe post to use as gate posts on 10' to 16' 2" tube gates?

We planted our pasture in oats for winter forage this year. About half the pasture came in pretty good and the other half not so good. The field had a soil test was fertilized and was disked twice. Any thoughts on what happened and how we can avoid it happening again?

Hello - longtime reader of Cattle Today - first time poster. I am in Central Texas and have been working at building up a small herd of Brangus cows with my son since 11/2013. We are wanting to build a large(for us) pen and working facility adjacent to our barnyard out of continuous fence...