Cow-Calf
During the last trimester of pregnancy in beef cows, the fetus grows rapidly, placing increasing nutrient demands on the cow. In addition, cold weather increases the cow’s nutrient requirements.
The Center for Consumer Freedom placed a full-page ad in The Los Angeles Times questioning if the everyday consumer can tell the difference between the ingredients found in dog food and “plant-based” meats.
Christmas Eve day on our Platte Valley farm was cloudy and cool. Evening chores were to be completed earlier than usual so that the family could attend Christmas Eve services at the small Presbyterian church in town.
While some producers have plentiful hay, rain during and after cutting may have resulted in reduced forage quality due to mold, leaf loss, shatter and nutrient leaching.
Southern plains ranchers often use wheat pasture as much of the winter feed supply, but some may wonder about unsatisfactory breeding performance of heifers when grazing wheat pasture.
Capturing and using data on the performance of your herd and the profitability of your ranch can help you make decisions that will lead to better performance and profitability.
When it comes to scour prevention, what we’ve been doing for years — vaccinating cows prior to calving — has not been very successful: rates of neonatal calf scours have shown little improvement.
Despite the industry’s efforts, calf scours remain a major challenge for unweaned calves. Even with all the tools producers use to combat the disease, no significant reduction in scour-related illnesses have been seen
Scour vaccines are being displaced by a new, more effective technology: guaranteed levels of scour-targeting antibodies delivered directly to the newborn calf with First Defense® products.
Calving season has begun, in a winter season that has had some extreme temperature swings. Drastic temperature changes can continue to be a concern when caring for newborn livestock.
Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) allow the breeder to identify the animals that excel in the traits that are important for their operation.
Anaplasmosis is primarily spread via insects, veterinarians say, but producer unawareness and mismanagement are increasingly contributing factors.
New technologies will never be in short supply. Some will forever change how we raise top quality cattle and beef.
The sudden death of more than a dozen cows leads a Kansas ranch on a frustrating odyssey.
A rancher in northeast Oregon has been granted the right to kill two wolves by state officials following an attack on calves in his cow herd.
New supplements offer value but producers need to determine costs and potential returns for practices they adopt
Whether you measure ranch output by the animal unit or the acre, market weight is undeniably one of the primary factors in cattle profit/loss equations.
Summer often brings a few infectious ailments to beef cows. Common problems include eye infections and foot rot. Treatment of affected cows will often involve the use of antibiotics, so remember VFD rules.
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were full of posts about #CowAppreciationDay on July 10.
University of Missouri Extension will offer cattlemen a bus tour of cattle operations in Kansas and Oklahoma Aug. 6-9.
Cattle producers are invited to attend a field day at the Mingo Farm in St. James, Mo., to learn how to use natural shade to improve their beef operation.
A juvenile wolf has been killed in Washington after its pack was found repeatedly preying on cattle grazing federal land.
A former ranch employee has been accused of digital cattle rustling in Texas after falsifying records in emails and impersonating another person in emails.
Low-stress weaning—regardless of how we do it—begins with how we gather and bring in the cattle. If we don’t do it properly, the cows and calves are in panic mode before we even have them in the corral.
Wildlife officials in Washington have approved a kill order for wolves that have been preying on livestock. This is the second time this has happened in less than a month.
A rancher from Montana was sentenced to two years in prison and must pay back $2.1 million to a bank he defrauded out of money for cattle loans.
In the seedstock business, the bar is higher than in a commercial herd. Registered breeders need more from their cows than just an acceptable calf.
A rancher in Washington is currently under investigation by wildlife officials after he shot at a wolf in self-defense while checking his cattle.
The cattle herd in Canada fell by 100,000 head with beef cows seeing the largest drop in herd numbers.
Cow-calf producers have a number of factors to consider when weighing the decision of retained ownership.