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How to Select the Right Corn Hybrid for Silage Acres

Picking the right hybrid for corn silage requires different criteria than for hybrids for grain silage. Learn how to make the best choice for your acres.

Cost Effectiveness of Silage Depends on Pricing It Correctly
Cost Effectiveness of Silage Depends on Pricing It Correctly

Pricing silage correctly can tell you if it’s your most cost-effective option. New learnings help ensure we are doing it correctly.

Winter Feeding Strategies for Beef Cows

Feeding in the winter is different than other times of the year. Read tips to keep your cows in top body condition through the harsh winter months.

How to Make Fiber More Digestible
How to Make Fiber More Digestible

Learn more about how fiber is digested, so you can improve the rate of fiber digestibility in your cows’ forage.

The Work to Controlling BVDV Transmission Begins with Biosecurity

Spotlight: Controlling Bovine Viral Diarrhea. Industry experts share updated medical practices, current technology and advice to effectively manage BVDV.

Ear-Marked at Birth

Is there a magic potion to help identify successful replacement heifers? Probably not, but cattlemen already have the next best tools to help choose their herd replacements right at their fingertips.

Reap the Benefits of Planting Cover Crops After Silage Harvest

Thinking about planting a cover crop post-silage harvest? Consider your objective and then learn your options.

What’s the Ideal Plant Population for Corn Silage?

Hitting the sweet spot for a corn silage optimal plant population rate might seem easy, but there are a few things to consider, as you fine tune the rate for your fields.

Do Your Heifers Make the Grade?

Learn how heifers that make the grade are one step closer to being on track to successfully enter the cow herd.

Pros and Cons of Harvesting Snaplage

Snaplage might be an option for your operation. Learn the pros and cons of harvesting and feeding snaplage to your herd.

High-Cut Versus Traditional Cut Silage – Which Is Right for You?

Considered harvesting high-cut silage, but never tried it? Learn if this is the right year to try it on your operation.

Protect Your Animals and Your Bottom Line
Protect Your Animals and Your Bottom Line

Young calf respiratory disease can take a heavy toll on the health of your animals and your finances. That's why getting young calves off to a healthy start can benifit a cow/calf operation in numerous ways.

Are Your Calves Protected Against Respiratory Disease?
Are Your Calves Protected Against Respiratory Disease?

Once a calf comes down with a respiratory disease the negative health effects can linger the remainder of the animal’s life

Colostrum Consumption Impacts Calf Immunity
Colostrum Consumption Impacts Calf Immunity

The first few days of a calf’s life sets the stage for future health and optimum performance. Learn why adequate colostrum consumption the first 12 to 24 hours can have life-long implications on calf immunity.

Improve Performance with FesCool A New Generation Supplements Product

Prevent fescue toxicity from making you, and your cattle, lose your cool.

The Importance of Generic Drugs

In this exclusive video, Dr. Moore breaks down what generic actually means to quality.  He’ll also explains how drugs get approved and why producers should feel confident using generic products.

Simplify Feeding to Financials

Save time, boost efficiency with the Performance Beef platform.