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 ...

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- For Yankton County farmer Brad Sik, a happy cow is a productive cow. With that in mind, Sik put a roof over his herd's heads. He installed the first Hoop Beef System in 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 ...

CAMP POINT — What may be the future of the cattle industry in Illinois was on display recently near Camp Point. Jacob Schmidt keeps cattle in a hoop barn designed for calving, backgrounding and ...