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 ...

FREDERICK — By using a hoop barn with a compost bed pack and paying close attention to DNA testing to capitalize on the traits of his animals, a cattleman near Frederick feels that he’s made some ...

A recent survey shows that hoop barns for beef cattle production are becoming more common in Iowa, offering benefits for the environment. The survey was conducted by Mark Honeyman, interim director of ...

HOWARD, S.D. -- John Reisch and Jason Feldhaus are excited for summer, and it's not because they don't like the cold. They'll get to try out their recently constructed hoop barn, to see if it keeps ...

Farmers are struggling through one of the more difficult summers in Iowa in decades. In addition to the drought that’s wilting crops, the extreme heat is stressing animals. Last summer, heat stress ...

With some grit and determination, the Cole County 4-H and FFA Fair Board has raised $20,000 since mid-June. The money is for a new hoop barn on the Jefferson City Jaycees Cole County Fairgrounds. “I ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — Keith Ellis traded his off-farm job for full-time farming two years ago. He expanded his hog production capacity by building three more hoop buildings and adding sows. He markets all ...

Taylor worked his heart and soul out trying to keep those calves alive and I said to myself, ‘if he is still in this after this year, he is in ...

For Iowa feeder Harris Haywood, waking up to blizzard conditions creates concern, but not the worry he’d have if his cattle were in an open-lot facility. Instead, he feeds cattle in nine monoslope ...