Missouri, Texas A&M receive $14 million research grants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded two major grants totaling more than $14 million to researchers at the University of Missouri and Texas A&M University for conducting research on Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) and feed efficiency.
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CattleSense: Healthy herd habits
It goes without saying that cattlemen care about the health of their herds.
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Ionophores aid stocker management
The grass is beginning to grow here in the southeast. Grass fever is beginning to push feeder calf prices up as folks begin the hunt for stocker calves.
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Passive immune status 24 hours post-calving
Animal and veterinary scientists working at the USDA experiment station at Clay Center, Nebraska monitored health events and growth performance in a population of range beef calves in order to identify associations of these factors with passive immune status.
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Cold Weather Cow Care
Winter brings a special set of challenges for cattle producers. The need for labor and management increase just as forage quality, feed availability, and hours of daylight available to get things done decrease.
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The Relationship of Bovine Respiratory Disease & Carcass Ultrasound Measures
Bovine respiratory disease has been identified as an economically relevant trait which lacks selection tools to reduce post-weaning incidence. The lack of sufficient field morbidity data has been a major obstruction to development of tools for genetic improvement.
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The Relationship of Bovine Respiratory Disease & Carcass Ultrasound Measures
Bovine respiratory disease has been identified as an economically relevant trait which lacks selection tools to reduce post-weaning incidence. The lack of sufficient field morbidity data has been a major obstruction to development of tools for genetic improvement.
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Cattle Health: Don't Limit Genetic Potential Through Bad Management
Management impacts on marbling actually begin prior to an animal's birth, as inadequate passive immune transfer at birth becomes an important factor in an animal's susceptibility of bovine respiratory disease.
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