100-Dollar-Ideas
Winter feed bills are one of the largest expenses of a livestock operation, but winter feed costs can be reduced with some action now.
This was a good spring for annual forages like ryegrass.
It might sound strange, but with no apparent ignition source, hay bales can burst into flames and cause much damage to storage facilities or spark a raging wildfire.
How about cutting your grass hay to match grass nutrient content with nutritional needs of your livestock?
Hybrid pearl millet may be a suitable replacement for forage sorghums susceptible to sugarcane aphid, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension experts.
During the summer months grazing ruminants may show signs of distress with only short periods of grazing from mid-morning to late afternoon and spending other times in the shade.
Northern Utah ranchers already dealing with low water supply are now facing a larger than normal infestation of a black grass bug that kills grass needed for cattle to graze.
Low available mineral nitrogen limits grass production more than low water on grassland pastures.
Ammoniation increases the digestibility and crude protein content of forage, improves intake and inhibits mold development.
Restocking may be an option for some, but rainfall and other factors will weigh heavily into the decision-making process.
With ramifications of the drought in the Southern Plains still being felt, producers should take precautions for forage production in 2012.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Beef Team offers some insight and research the get the most from this type of grazing crop residue.
New Mexico State University researchers investigate targeted grazing strategies to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
Some fall rains making it appear as though some drought-weakened pasture resources are healthier than they might be.
Drought in Oklahoma and Texas is forcing more cattle on feed, and that will impact inventory numbers in January.
It appears that following 2006, we entered a new climate pattern, one with warmer and drier weather in the South.
Of all the factors affecting hay quality, stage of maturity when harvested is the most important and the one in which greatest progress can be made.
Dry weather has placed a lot of stress on forages and increased the risk of prussic acid and/or nitrate poisoning
To avoid any health problems in cattle, swine, poultry and other animals, growers are highly encouraged to test the grain for vomitoxin levels.
Florida Farm Bureau is working to assess farm damage from Hurricane Irma.
The report showed On Feed and Placements above expectations.
Report expected to show On Feed and Placements below year-ago.
Brian Grete and Julianne Johnston discuss the fundamentals behind the record run in cattle futures.
Pro Farmer’s Julianne Johnston provides a weekly update on the beef and cattle markets.
Good records help producers make good management decisions.
Concerns about livestock prices took some air out of the Purdue/CME Ag Economy Barometer, pushing the new index down to 97 in May from April’s 106.
Will prices continue to decline, or will they trade steady or find support between May and October? That is a tough question at this point, but it is hard to imagine further significant declines at this time.
Price premiums are growing for preconditioned calves in every region.