Feeding beef cows in winter
Feeding beef cattle during the winter can be a challenging experience if being profitable is also one of your goals.
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Understanding nutrient requirements of beef cows
Understanding the nutrient requirements of beef cows is essential to ensuring that requirements are being met and cow performance is optimized while utilizing available feeds in a cost-effective manner.
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Explaining growth promotants used in feedlot cattle
Feed efficiency in cattle can make or break profitability in the feeding sector, and affects environmental implications.
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Stacking technologies increases stocker profitability
Implants and ionophores (i.e., Rumensin) are both proven technologies for stocker cattle production. However, some producers have asked what happens when these technologies are “stacked” together.
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Protein supplementation using urea
Urea is not protein, but for the ruminant (cattle) it does have the potential equivalent of 281% crude protein under certain circumstances.
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Improving feeder-cattle efficiency
Consulting veterinarian Bob Smith describes how the proper use of performance technologies and nutritional supplements can benefit feeding programs when feed prices are high and arriving cattle are nutritionally stressed.
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Drought diets: Corn silage inclusion
Producers are considering different rations than “normal” due to the dry summer conditions and lack of hay supply.
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Dealing with drought-stressed calves
Missouri veterinarian Dr. Dan Goehl outlines health challenges in calves shipped to stocker operations this fall, and nutritional priorities for cow-calf producers.
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Utilize feed efficiently
Purdue University veterinarian Dr. Mark Hilton discusses the importance of nutrition and feed utilization in the cow-calf herd during a time of forage shortages and expensive feeds.
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Cattle feeding: What's in the bag?
This time of the year is when many cattlemen begin buying feed to supplement weaned calves, replacement heifers, and cows. Which feed should I buy and how much should I feed often become the topics of discussion this time of year.
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Winter mineral nutrition for beef cows
Winter supplementation often focuses heavily on meeting protein and energy requirements of cows and tends to leave mineral nutrition as almost an afterthought.
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