The Cattle Producer’s Handbook is a collection of fact sheets that are resources for any size beef cattle operation. Material has been developed by the Western Beef Resource Committee, which consists of Cooperative Extension System animal scientists, veterinarians, and other specialists from Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

The committee set the following objectives:

1. To develop or collect as complete a set of informative material as can be found that has a bearing on beef production systems. The information in the Handbook is in brief, easy-to-read fact sheets that deal with specific subjects. They are written by specialists whom the committee considered the best authorities in a particular subject area. 
2. To develop support material for the Cattle Producer’s Handbook in the form of other media such as CDs, DVDs, Internet content, etc.