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The National Beef Quality Assurance Team hosts a virtual producer forum on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 7 pm Central Time.
Sweetclover can provide good nutrition to cattle because it is high in protein and energy when not mature, but it can become toxic to cattle if fed as hay.
Congressmen urge Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue to to assist U.S. lamb and sheep producers impacted by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the closure of a Colorado processing plant.
Data from USDA’s monthly cattle on feed reports and rising feeder cattle prices in July suggest cattle feeders have pen space to fill and the backlog of cattle is now diminishing.
Conducting an inventory of your forage supplies now will give your a good idea of possible deficiencies and allow time to develop the best options for the upcoming feeding season.
Drought increases the chance of nitrate poisoning and prussic acid poisoning. High concentrations in plants and water can harm or even kill animals.
“Many trial courts in Texas have been resistant to allowing landowners to fully challenge a private entity’s use of eminent domain,” says Texas lawyer James D Bradbury. “This opinion changes that.”
A Texas A&M AgriLife study will determine differences in nitrogen requirements between Brahman type cattle and others, which may allow producers to reduce the protein in cattle diet formulations.
The 15th Annual Certified Angus Beef Feeding Quality Forum will be held virtually this year on Aug. 25 and 26, offering key marketing insights and unique perspectives on the beef supply chain’s future.
Preliminary GDP data suggest the U.S. experienced an unprecedented economic decline during the second quarter of 2020, leading to uncertainty about consumer beef demand for the remainder of the year.
Cash fed cattle prices are slowly but steadily pushing higher with prices in the North at a premium to prices paid to southern feedyards.
USDA’s release o Friday of Cattle on Feed and Cattle Inventory report data suggests backlog is decreasing in feedyards and beef cow numbers are tightening across cattle country.
Testimony before the Senate committee on Energy and Natural Resources highlighted the importance of public lands ranchers during the pandemic, including their role in resurging the American economy.
Since the week of May 16 when the beef cutout hit record highs, the price has fallen 56%. Simultaneously, weekly beef production has increased 29% and carcass weights are averaging 37 pounds more than last year.
Cattle on feed in feedyards with 1,000 or more head totaled 11.4 million July 1, the second highest inventory since the series began in 1996.
A U.S. District judge in Florida has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Burger King alleging deceptive advertising for the way the company cooks their plant-based Impossible Whopper.
Boxed beef prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2017, and beef production will continue at a pace above last year with carcass weights up 35 pounds year-over-year.
Cattle feeders in the South were able to keep the market mostly steady to higher for the week. Most cash trades were $95-$96 with producers finding themselves in a position to pass on lower bids for front end cattle.
There’s a time when pounds aren’t everything. For one northeast Missouri family, it pays to focus on high-quality Angus genetics and market them on the grid, capitalizing on pounds of quality.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Aggie Beef 706 program will be held virtually. Ranchers, educators and allied business people are invited to learn the same valuable concepts traditionally taught in Beef 706.
Pinkeye can result in increased labor, the need to purchase antibiotics, decreased weaning weights and lower prices paid for animals with scarred eyes.
Progress appears slow in erasing the backlog of cattle in America’s feedyards, and carcass weights averaging 4.2% heavier are the equivalent of 21,000 more cattle coming to market than last year.
Establishing cover crops following grain production is a proven tool to protect soil, reduce erosion, improve water quality and enhance soil quality.
Rejuvra™ herbicide was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for controlling invasive weed species on rangeland, CRP land and natural areas, including grazed areas.
On the one-year anniversary of committing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s Global Compact and the Science Based Targets initiative, Alltech has released its 2020 Sustainability Report.
The U.S. beef industry is a forage-based industry and that one distinction from the pork and poultry industries will hinder any future vertical integration, says John Nalivka.
Cattlemen may someday use technology such as drones to digitize pasture management addressing variable pasture conditions and labor needed to develop actionable data-driven grazing management plans.
For the first time in its 38-year history the Iowa Governor’s Charity Steer Show (GCSS) will not be held at the Iowa State Fair. Due to the cancellation of this year’s fair Iowa State University will host the event.
Early pregnancy testing provides a number of benefits, and can be conducted as early as 30 to 45 days after the end of the breeding season through ultrasound, rectal palpation or blood-based pregnancy tests.
Steers and heifers sold higher at auctions on the Northern Plains, with feeder cattle trading uneven at auctions in the Southeast and South Central regions.