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🏆 Congratulations to Autauga Farming Company of Autaugaville, Alabama, on being named the 2026 Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) Commercial Producer of the Year.

This national recognition honors commercial producers who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to improving the beef industry.

Autauga Farming Company has been a member of the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association since 1964 and has maintained an incredible 62 consecutive years of performance records. Since 2014, they've managed those records using CattleMax and electronic identification technology to help guide breeding decisions and drive herd improvement.

We're proud to see a longtime CattleMax customer receive this well-deserved recognition. Congratulations to the Wendland family and everyone at Autauga Farming Company on this outstanding achievement.

Join us in congratulating them in the comments! 👏

Award Announcement!

Congratulations to Autauga Farming Company, Autaugaville, AL, the 2026 BIF Commercial Producer of the Year!

🐂 FAQ: Can animals belong to multiple groups?
Yes!

Many ranchers use groups to organize cattle by pasture, breeding season, ownership, replacement status, and more.

The same animal can belong to multiple groups at the same time, making it easy to sort records, run reports, and stay organized without extra data entry.

💭 How do you organize your herd? By pasture, breeding season, age group, ownership, or something else?

🌱 Good pasture management starts with good information.

Join us for our next Ranching Smarter with CattleMax class:
Managing Pastures & Grazing with Confidence

Hosted by ranchers on the CattleMax team, this practical session will walk through:

✔️ Pasture assignments & rotations
✔️ Grazing activity tracking
✔️ Rainfall & hay production records
✔️ Notes, reports, and organization tools

📅 Tuesday, June 23
🕡 6:30 PM CT

Whether you’re managing a few pastures or a whole grazing system, this class is designed to help you stay organized, make better decisions, and get more from your resources.

💬 Bring your questions — we’ll save time for Q&A too!
Go to our classes link in our bio to save your spot!

🥩 From ranch to table, every pound of beef tells a story.

Behind every calf crop, breeding decision, pasture rotation, and long day spent working cattle are the records and decisions that help keep an operation moving forward.

At CattleMax, we know good cattle don’t happen by accident — they’re built through years of hard work, planning, and paying attention to the details.

As Beef Month comes to a close, we’re proud to support the ranchers raising the next generation of quality beef.

🐂 Technology is changing the cattle industry, but good record keeping is still the foundation.

Join us with the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association for a free Virtual Ranching 101 webinar featuring Terrell Miller, Founder & CEO of CattleMax.

📅 June 16, 2026
🕐 1 PM CT

We’ll be talking about:
✔️ What records matter most
✔️ Paper vs spreadsheets vs software
✔️ Digital tools like EID readers & scales
✔️ How technology is improving ranch management

Whether you’re just getting started or looking to modernize your operation, this session will share practical ideas you can put to work right away.

💬 We’d love to have you join us!
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🔗Data that works together.

The Prime Pursuits connection in CattleMax lets you move treatments, weights, and carcass data between systems, keeping your records aligned and up to date.

See the full picture of your herd with connected, easy-to-manage data.

👉ctl.mx/prime-pursuits-connection

🐂 Breeding season is here, and calving season comes next!.

Our free Adjusted Birth Weight Calculator helps you quickly calculate adjusted birth weights based on calf age and dam age, giving you a more accurate way to compare performance across your calf crop.

It’s a simple tool ranchers can use to better evaluate genetics, growth, and replacement potential.

👉 Give it a try here: ctl.mx/adj-bw-calculator

🐂 Breeding season sets the tone for the whole year.

Bull turnout dates, AI timing, heat cycles, preg checks… the more organized you are now, the easier the next calving season becomes.

Learn how to have good records today to help prevent surprises later.
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🐂 Feeling buried in records this spring?

Before summer gets busy, join us for our next Ranching Smarter with CattleMax class: “Clean Up Your Records Before Summer”

Hosted by ranchers on the CattleMax team, this practical session will walk through simple ways to organize your records using:

✔️ Categories & groups
✔️ Pasture assignments
✔️ Ownership tracking
✔️ Reports that help you actually use your data

📅 TODAY,Wednesday, May 20
🕡 6:30 PM CT

Whether you’ve used CattleMax for years or are just getting started, this class is designed to help you feel more confident and in control of your records.

💬 Bring your questions — we’ll save time for Q&A too!
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