Latest News From Animal Nutrition

Providing the right type of mineral with diets containing distillers can alleviate potential health problems and often times be more cost effective as well.
Mineral Supplementation Changes When Feeding Distillers Grains

Providing the right type of mineral with diets containing distillers can alleviate potential health problems and often times be more cost effective as well.

A backgrounding phase adds days on feed but results in heavier carcass weights at the same backfat endpoint in Nebraska trials.
Cornstalk Calves Catch Up

Summer-born calves wintered on cornstalks have lighter weaning weights than those wintered in a drylot, but catch up in the feedlot, in a University of Nebraska Study.

It is necessary that the cow manager understand the change in nutrient requirements of beef cows as they change from gestating cows to early lactation cows.
Dietary Changes Needed for Early Lactation Beef Cows

It is necessary that the cow manager understand the change in nutrient requirements of beef cows as they change from gestating cows to early lactation cows.

BT_Angus_Calf_Mineral
Be Aware When Feeding Cattle Ionophores: An Overdose May Prove Deadly

Ionophores have been used for many years in the beef and poultry industries for improved feed efficiency and control of coccidiosis

Mud and cold, wet conditions are much more difficult to manage than just the bitterly cold.
Wet Conditions Increase Cow Feed Needs

Mud and cold, wet conditions are much more difficult to manage than just the bitterly cold.

Facts and Fiction About Hemp in Animal Feed, page 2
Facts and Fiction About Hemp in Animal Feed, page 2

Here's what you need to know about hemp as a feed ingredient for cattle.

Lactic acid levels will be lower in silages treated with inoculants containing Lactobacillus buchneri.
Making Sense of Forage Analysis Results

Results from forage analysis aren’t just for ration formulations. The numbers can also help producers adjust management processes to avoid future problems altogether.

Alltech 2015 Harvest Analysis: Test before feeding cattle
Alltech 2015 Harvest Analysis: Test before feeding cattle

Inconsistent weather patterns this past summer wreaked havoc on the 2015 North America crop, producing irregularities in plant growth and now putting dairy and beef cattle at high risk for mycotoxin exposure, according