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 ...

The Bryants have been selling hoop barns for eight years through their company Hoop Beef System. Brent Bryant said they’ve already sold more barns this year that they did all of last year.

He eventually plans to raise 280 to 300 head in his hoop barn. Hoop Beef System provides 40 square feet and 1 foot of bunk space per head under the roof. The system includes the building ...

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 ...

ISU has 20 hoop barns housing everything from swine and beef to machinery and feed. As farmers decide to get out of the hog business, they can be used for other things. Apparently farmers are ...

Beth Doran is a beef program specialist at the Iowa State ... “We’ll be talking about different kinds of facilities, hoop barns, monoslope barns, open lots, deep-pitted slotted-floor barns.

Editor's note: This is part of a series of eight features on Minnesota cattle operations that will be part of the Minnesota Cattlemen’s Association 2021 Summer Beef ... two hoop barns on that ...

Jacob Schmidt keeps cattle in a hoop barn designed for calving ... “It’s harder and harder to find pasture as we look at growing beef and growing beef numbers, so this makes a lot of sense ...

The operation was one of nine stops during the Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association's Summer Beef Tour on July 12. The Rock-Nobles Cattlemen's Association hosted the tour. The hoop barn is 100 ...

Jacob Schmidt keeps cattle in a hoop barn designed for calving ... "It's harder and harder to find pasture as we look at growing beef and growing beef numbers, so this makes a lot of sense ...