Management
There is more than one way to make sure your cows are pregnant.
I must confess some consternation with this expectation of restrictions such as protective boots and clothing and bottles of disinfectant.
The point and challenge is that beef producers need to have a plan. In other words, it is the process of slowly changing stocking rates to reflect the changing plant communities in response to changing moisture supplies.
A holiday break makes a good time to tighten up your calving season with controlled breeding.
Heat detecting with a drone may not be the stuff of science fiction.
A calving book is a book that allows producers to write down the tag number they put in the calf to record the date of birth as close as possible.
Time of day of feeding is the variable most easily changed by management.
What did it cost you to produce a calf this year? What will it cost you in 2015?
Have you done taken a look at your cows’ body condition scores lately?
Aggressively identifying ways to reduce depreciation expense should be a goal for cow-calf producers.
November 15, 2014 is the deadline to purchase or change coverage for the 2015 calendar year.
Choosing the right feeding site could pay dividends.
How many replacement heifers should you keep and how many cows should you cull?
The cow herd averages 5.6 years of age. Does this mean that all the cows should be managed as 5-year-old cows?
With beef prices at all-time highs culling cows can be a profit center.
Cattle producers are looking at astonishing prices for their livestock in 2014 which are leading many to be concerned about the tax bill that will inevitably follow.
What should producers do with the record income they’ll receive from selling cattle this year?
Post weaning calf performance is important to maximize cattle profitability.
Should you sell your open spring calvers or make them fall cows?
What are your plans with the big check you’ll receive for selling calves?
Body Condition Score is a term used often in beef cattle discussions, however, some producers may not know what it means and how it can be used as a management tool for the herd.
Record high prices and profits should have cattle producers thinking of investing in their operations.
As prices for calves continue to reach historic levels, beef cattle producers could see increased revenue by implementing cost-effective calf management practices.
Increase the profitability of your cow-calf operation by utilizing early pregnancy detection.
What may seem a relatively small clause at the time of signing could mushroom into a major, if not unmanageable, fiscal request at some unknown future date for some future owner of the property.