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Nutrition: Ionophores help stretch limited feed supplies
With feed supplies running short on many cow-calf operations this year, Kansas State Extension beef specialist Dale Blasi says ranchers should consider feeding an ionophore to help stretch forage supplies.
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Profit Tips: Marketing - What cattle feeders want
USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System recently released four information sheets from its Feedlot 2011 study.
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Profit Tips: Management - Ten keys to good stockmanship
Good stockmanship benefits animal welfare, animal health and the working environment for cattle handlers.
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Profit Tips: Animal health - Help your vaccines work
A preventative herd-health program, including proper and timely vaccination, is a beef operation’s best insurance policy against production losses and disease.
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Profit Tips: Equipment - Siphon increases water capacity
Connecting multiple water tanks with a siphon can greatly increase the capacity of available drinking water for your cattle.
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Profit Tips: Equipment - Speedy hookup
Hooking a trailer onto a pickup ball-hitch can be frustrating and time consuming when doing it by yourself.
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Profit Tips: Feeding - Optimize stalk grazing
University of Illinois Extension educator Travis Meteer offers ideas for making the best use of crop residues.
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Profit Tips: Pasture management - Prep pastures for next year
After a tough year for many pastures, some preparation over the next few months could help their recovery and productivity next year, assuming Mother Nature cooperates.
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Profit Tips: Management - Stretch pastures during drought
As drought shrinks forage production around the country, Iowa State University Extension beef program specialist Denise Schwab, PhD, says ranchers have two basic options.
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Profit Tips: Reproduction - Early pregnancy testing pays
Early results provided by blood pregnancy testing can offer benefits both financially and in overall herd management.
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Would an ethanol waiver reduce corn prices?
Livestock producers, along with several national and state elected officials, are calling for a waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires fuel blenders to include a set volume of ethanol in gasoline. But whether or not a waiver would bring lower corn prices depends on a complex set of factors, according to a new report from Purdue University economists.
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- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- Oklahoma producers have access to new OQBN tool
- Survey reveals most Americans in favor of COOL
- Oil ends higher on weaker dollar, supplies weigh
- Purdue's beef evaluation program receives 10,000th bull
- Corn planting pace turns from record slow to record fast
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- U.S. cattle placements rise in April as feed costs subside
- Ag markets were mixed to start the new week
- Corn planting pace turns from record slow to record fast
- Corn and soybean prices continue to retrace 2012 drought rally
- New school lunch beef recipes win approval from kids, foodservice
