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Harlan Gunderson
Harlan Gunderson

Fifth-generation rancher with roots in western Colorado. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and now studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is passionate about ranching and bridging the divide between 21st century tech and everyday people. When not on the ranch or in the classroom, he enjoys reading (usually fantasy or sci-fi), downhill skiing, and hiking/camping.

Walking the Angus Tightrope

Walking the Angus Tightrope

As beef-on-dairy reshapes cattle genetics, Angus faces a defining question: how do you stay at the center of the industry's future without losing sight of the members who built it?

Sep 14, 2026

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4 min read

The Beef-on-Dairy Data Explosion

The Beef-on-Dairy Data Explosion

The data shaping tomorrow's beef genetics isn't coming from the pastures; it's coming from dairies.

Sep 8, 2026

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5 min read

Small Processing Is Back in the Equation

Small Processing Is Back in the Equation

Here's why the small-processing math just got better, and the AI camera that could solve the inspector problem before the fee schedule does.

Aug 31, 2026

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8 min read

Three Plants. Now What?

Three Plants. Now What?

Tyson just told you where their beef business is. The question for everyone else is where does ours actually go.

Aug 24, 2026

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8 min read

The Collar Study With No Salesman in the Room

The Collar Study With No Salesman in the Room

The first independent, full-season virtual fence trial on real rangeland just published. The fence works. The gains don't. The carbon pitch doesn't survive the data.

Aug 17, 2026

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5 min read

Two Solutions to the Same Problem

Two Solutions to the Same Problem

Autonomous feeding for the feedyard. Embryo multiplication for the cow-calf operator who never thought IVF genetics were for his operation. Both are about the same shortage.

Aug 10, 2026

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8 min read

Screwworm's Genetic Off Switch

Screwworm's Genetic Off Switch

The eradication fight went into the lab. Meanwhile, a red seaweed is knocking three-quarters of the methane out of grazing cows — if you can get them to eat it.

Aug 3, 2026

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8 min read

The Cow Is the Collateral

The Cow Is the Collateral

Cattle have never been worth more, and credit has never been harder to pull against them. A deal in Brazil and a trial in Oklahoma both ran through the same piece of hardware this week.

Jul 28, 2026

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9 min read

When It's This Dry, Every Decision Costs More

When It's This Dry, Every Decision Costs More

Remote water monitoring that works today, in off-grid country. A cattle genome that upgrades every selection decision for the next decade. Same drought summer. Different clocks.

Jul 20, 2026

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8 min read

The Marbling Outran the Ruler

The Marbling Outran the Ruler

USDA is reopening beef grade standards for the first time in a generation. The comment window closes September 8, and what's on the table could move real money on your grid.

Jul 13, 2026

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8 min read

Where He's Been, and What It Cost Her

Where He's Been, and What It Cost Her

The individual animal is becoming a data record. One producer cooperative is turning it into an 80/20 paycheck. A South Dakota research station is turning it into a fuel gauge for the pasture.

Jul 6, 2026

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9 min read

Change the Cow, or Change the Crew

Change the Cow, or Change the Crew

Heat tolerance genetics are finally getting real numbers. The chute is starting to run itself. Two answers to the same squeeze. The best operations will use both.

Jun 29, 2026

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8 min read

The Lab Came for Your Hormones and Your Methane

The Lab Came for Your Hormones and Your Methane

Two university breakthroughs, aimed at the two places the export market is squeezing hardest. Both were built to survive the chute.

Jun 22, 2026

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8 min read

Your Grass and Your Collar Both Have a Price Now

Your Grass and Your Collar Both Have a Price Now

Drought is forcing destocking decisions across the Plains. Two technologies are quietly changing who makes those calls with good information — and who owns the data when they do.

Jun 15, 2026

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9 min read

It's Here. Now Open the Kit.

It's Here. Now Open the Kit.

Screwworm just crossed into Texas for the first time since 1996. Here's every product cleared, how to choose between them, and what no drug can do.

Jun 8, 2026

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9 min read

Catching It Before You Can See It

Catching It Before You Can See It

A microphone over the pen, and a breathalyzer for your herd. Two research teams are closing the gap between when BRD starts and when you find out.

Jun 1, 2026

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6 min read

She's Put Together Right. Now We Can Prove It.

She's Put Together Right. Now We Can Prove It.

University of Illinois researchers just made structural soundness countable. Here's why that changes forty years of beef genetic selection.

May 25, 2026

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10 min read

Getting More From What We Have

Getting More From What We Have

A Norwegian soil treatment and a Cargill 3D camera walk into Beef Month. Both are solving the same problem: with the herd this tight, every layer of the operation has to work harder.

May 20, 2026

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11 min read

Ranchers Are the Original Generalists

Ranchers Are the Original Generalists

A federal job taxonomy built for another era says agriculture isn't using AI. The operation running Claude for lease drafts, satellite imagery, and marketing copy disagrees.

May 11, 2026

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9 min read

The Third Option

The Third Option

A software fix just gave ranchers a new seat at the solar negotiation table. Starlink just gave virtual fencing to the country where it never worked. Both change the conversation.

May 4, 2026

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10 min read

The Ranch That Runs on Data It Actually Owns

The Ranch That Runs on Data It Actually Owns

Fifty issues of BeefTech.News. For Issue 50, one concept worth holding onto: the digital twin, what it is, what it does, and why the ownership question matters more than the technology.

Apr 27, 2026

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10 min read

Flies and Algorithms

Flies and Algorithms

The most consequential beef biosecurity investment in a generation happened at a Texas air base. The most useful profitability finding of the quarter came from a Brisbane conference. Both beat the LinkedIn news cycle.

Apr 20, 2026

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11 min read

China's Vaccines Don't Work on This One

China's Vaccines Don't Work on This One

A new FMD serotype is moving across continents. Russia's cattle crisis doesn't add up. And two companies just put a billion dollars behind fencing your herd without wire.

Apr 13, 2026

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19 min read

The Rules Are the Technology

The Rules Are the Technology

A DEF sensor fix that should have happened a decade ago. A court ruling that's quietly reshaping where agtech investment goes next. Both are about the same thing.

Apr 7, 2026

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18 min read

A Billionaire and a Grad Student Both Bet on AI This Week

A Billionaire and a Grad Student Both Bet on AI This Week

One raised $220 million. The other used a cell phone and 7,200 photographs. The one that might change your bottom line this year isn’t the one that made the headlines.

Mar 30, 2026

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18 min read

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