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It is clear that protein nutrition during late gestation is important to fetal development.
Research shows about three in four producers approve of the program.
Leigh Rubin brings his wild and twisted cartoony show to Denver during the 2011 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Tradeshow.
Use the right information to select your next herd sire.
Don’t just sell preconditioned calves, market them.
Congress and regulatory oversight agencies have held hearings to examine the role of speculation in commodity markets.
As we get nearer to spring calving season, our clinic will begin to get calls of aborted fetuses, near-term stillbirths and lost calves. These cases can be frustrating, as often we will not get a definitive diagnosis of what caused the problem. It is important for producers to understand a couple of things when deciding if it is worth the expense and effort to run diagnostic tests on individual ill or dead animals.
Losing a farm partner is twice as hard when it’s your father.
Faced with adversity, Duncanson Growers discovered how to get better.
University of Florida researchers have developed a variety of bahiagrass that better withstands cold temperatures than other varieties.
While you may just be starting calving season, now is the time to start thinking about breeding season.
Debt-to-asset ratio down to 11.3%
But will they actually accomplish much?
Study shows proposed new regulations from USDA will cost the broiler chicken industry more than $1 billion over five years.
Fall can be a busy and challenging time for cattlemen.
As frost begins to cover fields, cattle producers should protect grazing livestock against prussic acid poisoning and bloat.
More than just chutes and panels
Stream and canal areas with the greatest variety of plants and soil organisms have the healthiest soil and least pollution potential.
Follow medication withdrawal times when culling cows.
Livestock producers at the Department of Justice’s competition forum in Fort Collins find lots to disagree about
Agency still to make additional calls yet on E15
Report expected to pressure market on Monday.
Fall means there are a lot of calves being weaned, shipped and received. By now, hopefully, you have a plan of action in place to keep the process as calm and stress-free as possible for the animals. Additional stresses at weaning and processing can inhibit immunity.
Bigger ag trade surplus also forecast
Ethanol and worldwide shortages brighten export picture
While the type of vaccine administered is a central part of herd health, the proper timing of vaccinations is also significant.
Byproduct feeds from ethanol plants offer beef herd owners a way to supplement bad hay being baled for winter feed this year.
Considerations to planning and management of flood-damaged pastures and hay fields.
Inventoroy was 2% higher, while placements were 6% below 2009.
The workshop, to be held Aug. 27 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, is the fourth in a series of five joint USDA/DOJ workshops focused on competition and regulatory issues in agriculture.
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