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With spring bull sales in full swing, cow calf operators are assessing their bull batteries and making needed purchases.
During the recent Cattlemen’s College at the Cattle Industry Convention a speaker discussed the importance of protein in maintaining cow condition and some basics for determining supplementation levels.
Producers need to review their anticipated calving dates, cow body condition scores and cows’ diet.
As the cow herd continues to rebuild feedlots carry on with business seeing fewer calves in pens.
The use of beta-agonists in beef cattle production has been highly scrutinized following concerns of animal welfare, which has led to the removal of Zilmax from the market by the manufacturer.
Concerns about running cattle on federal land are reaching livestock owners in California.
Grass tetany, also known as grass staggers, magnesium tetany, hypomagnesemia, and wheat pasture poisoning, is a nutritional disorder caused by either 1) an inadequate amount of dietary Mg, or, 2) other mineral related factor that is preventing (antagonizing) dietary Mg from being properly absorbed or utilized.
Replacement heifers that have just reached puberty and started cycling may be vulnerable to any drastic change in feed intake. A small trial conducted at Oklahoma State University illustrates the impact that sudden severe reduction in energy intake can have on cycling activity in replacement heifers.
Each year new across-breed adjustment factors are released at the Beef Improvement Federation meeting.
Survey shows 80% of Iowa producers support 50 cent state beef checkoff.
Whether you’re looking for a permanent fencing solution or want something portable for your grazing system, there are many cost and management benefits to utilizing electric fence.
The No. 1 failure in the installment of an electric fence system is not properly grounding the energizer. “If you want to get the most out of your charger, then you must install a grounding system—and install it right,” Steve Freeman says.
International markets continue to put a damper on cattle markets as commodity prices tend to follow the international economy for certain durations.
After months of stress, confusion and heartache, the refuge takeover appears to have ended.
Finding genetics information on current and previously purchased bulls is easy.
Billionaire Stan Kroenke has been approved by a Texas court to purchase the historic W.T. Waggoner Ranch.
If old gray corral boards could talk, Johnny Holloway figures they’d have a tale to tell at the stockyards and railroad crossing known as Mossman.
The FBI arrested Cliven Bundy late Wednesday at the Portland International Airport, Portland, Ore.
As bull buying season approaches, a K-State cow-calf specialist provides strategies to choose an appropriate herd sire.
The annual Cattle report estimated that total cattle inventories in the U.S. were up 3.2 percent year over year at 92.0 million head.
There is a close connection between nutrition and reproductive efficiency in beef cows.
Three key management concepts can help commercial cow calf operations improve the productivity of their cow herds. However, planning and preparation must take place well in advance of the spring breeding season.
With cow herd rebuilding still in progress in the United States, K-State Research and Extension cow-calf specialist Bob Weaber offers advice on selecting herd sires to make the most valuable replacement daughters.
Saying you are happy, satisfied and content with what you’re doing is OK.
More than 100,000 cattle move through the Bluegrass Stockyards each year. The facility has been a mainstay in Central Kentucky since the mid-1930s. Recently a massive fire completely destroyed the location near downtown Lexington, and local producers will feel its absence.
Feedyards found plenty of economic incentive to feed cattle to heavier weights last year, the results displayed in record carcass weights and dismal profits
Kentucky’s top agriculture official says the state’s beef cattle industry will not be hindered by a fire that destroyed a seven-acre auction house on Saturday.
A massive fire destroyed a 70-year-old beef cattle auction business in Lexington, Ky. on Saturday, churning up a plume of thick, black smoke that darkened the skies for miles as the wind-whipped flames consumed several nearby businesses.