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Both summer and fall are important times for ranchers to keep an eye on cattle that graze where Johnsongrass is present, due to the risk of prussic acid toxicity.

Amid continuing drought, the 2022 hay supply data illustrate why so much herd liquidation has occurred this year. It also speaks to the continuing challenges that cattle producers will face to get through the winter.

During a ceremony in downtown Amarillo, principals for Producer Owned Beef announced their plans for a 3,000-head per day beef packing facility that will break ground next year.

Beef packers were forced to pay up to attract inventory last week, a bullish signal that the longer-term trend is higher for cash cattle.

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Snaplage brings several intriguing aspects to beef producers as it “brings starch like high moisture shelled corn, but also a bit of fiber like corn silage,” explains John Goeser of Rock River Laboratory.

All plants can contain some nitrate, but buildup of nitrates to toxic levels in forage plants can occur. Nitrate is not particularly toxic to cattle, at normal levels, but how much is ‘too much?’

Weather events in the weeks, days and even hours leading up to harvest can trump our best efforts and transform a carefully raised feed resource into a nutritional time bomb.