Mort & Co's Grassdale Feedlot 'Bud Box' cattle handling system being demonstrated at a public showing last Tuesday. As a high cattle turnover business Mort & Co’s Grassdale feedlot has implemented a ...

“A Bud box is simply a small rectangular corral named after Bud Williams, one of the livestock low-stress handling pioneers. Williams used it on a ranch he managed and has since built and promoted Bud ...

A bud box, he said, is a square holding pen in which the handler has to move the cattle to the alley for processing, while a tub is a circular system that the cattle move through. “After the cattle ...

For generations, improvements in cattle handling equipment were based on guesswork. Livestock producers observed cattle behavior, and equipment manufacturers made adjustments, sometimes only to change ...