Cattle chutes with names such as the Silencer can tame even 950-pound steers, people learned at Husker Harvest Days on Tuesday. Features of 10 cattle chutes were shown during a demonstration Tuesday ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Cattle-handling demonstrations have been part of Husker Harvest Days for 25 years, an anniversary marked Wednesday at this year's ...

The very first cattle-handling demonstration at Husker Harvest Days was almost a complete disaster 25 years ago, said Joe Jeffrey, a veterinarian and rancher from Lexington. A calf nearly choked to ...

Sometimes it seems like these huge job fairs are big waste. It's like seeing cattle herded into the chute. But, says Gloria Leidel, a longtime job counselor from Goodwill Industries of Southern New ...

It's shearing time at Montana State University's Red Bluff Research Ranch, headquartered east of Norris. It will take less than two days for four professional shearers to harvest this spring's wool ...

A wave of sound washes over you as you enter the shearing shed at Spring Point Colony. There’s the occasional bleat of a sheep and the rumble of a tractor idling out in the corral. Hydraulic presses ...

The drawing on the left shows the area where heifers were trained. Anticipatory and play behaviors were recorded in the “start box” (area B in the diagram) while cattle were waiting to enter the ...