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Planning ahead for pasture quality decline can help combat potential nutrient deficiencies.
Coffee discussions tend to assume an answer quickly, but the reality is much more difficult and complicated.
When it comes to the health of newborn calves, it all starts with the cow.
The Angus Foundation white paper discusses ‘Genetic Basis for Heat Tolerance in Cattle.’
Eminent domain could pose problems for beef producers in central Texas where a high speed railroad is being proposed.
Testing bulls for reproductive health is even more important now for beef cattle producers because feeder calves are expected to generate record prices this fall, a Purdue University veterinary scientist says.
Feedlot placements and marketings slide, while the WTO rules against COOL for a fourth time.
Winter effects will vary, but for those cows that used up some conditioning during the cold winter, spring feed is critical to meet lactation needs, as well pending reproductive needs.
Branding season or pasture turnout is a natural time point that lends itself well to working calves and preparing them for the summer ahead.
After calving season comes to an end, it won’t be long before breeding season begins. To ensure a successful breeding season, it is critical to monitor nutritional status of the cows by evaluating body condition score.
A critical component of reproductive success is having sound, highly fertile bulls.
The sale of fall-calving, Show-Me-Select beef heifers will begin at 7 p.m. on May 15 at Joplin Regional Stockyards near Carthage, Mo.
An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to prison for stealing seven cows from a ranch.
The point and challenge is that beef producers need to have a plan. In other words, it is the process of slowly changing stocking rates to reflect the changing plant communities in response to changing moisture supplies.
The beef industry stands alone in 2015 in its continued reduction in supplies available to consumers.
Beef producers learn updates to cow-calf management systems.
High cattle prices make it important to prevent stocker cattle from having bovine respiratory disease (BRD).
Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. chicken processor, said the primary effect of the current avian influenza outbreak has been lost export sales and that the company can cope with the resulting change in poultry supplies.
Providing a protein supplement to late gestation cows grazing dormant range is usually sufficient to maintain cow performance.
The 2015 spring bull breeding soundness clinics found 14.5 percent of the screened bulls to be unsatisfactory as potential breeders to be placed in with cows or heifers this spring.
Producers with good, workable chutes are more likely to complete the appropriate practices than an owner with sub-par facilities.
Every year at green up, grass managers must make decisions about when and where to begin grazing.
Although calving season management is the primary concern for most spring-calving herds, that is only half the battle, explained Warren Rusche, SDSU Extension Cow/Calf Field Specialist.
Even though we don’t know for sure how pasture conditions will turn out it’s never too early to make drought management plans.
Achieving a 100 percent calf crop is very difficult, unless a farmer has only one cow. But a 100 percent calf crop is a great goal according to Eldon Cole, livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension.
The only one way to find out if your fall 2014 calf crop really is outstanding, regarding quality and feedlot performance, is to retain ownership all the way to the packing plant.
The Baylor County Range Management Workshop will be May 1 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service office in Baylor County, 500 N. Main St. in Seymour.
Extra weight on a set of feeder calves can translate into more net dollars in the seller’s pocket.