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Profit Tips: Enhance forage supply with ammoniated wheat straw
With forage supplies tight in many areas, treating wheat straw with ammonia could provide a cost-effective option, according to Kansas State University Extension beef specialist Dale Blasi, PhD.
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Profit tips: Benefits of choosing the proper lubricant
Today’s agricultural machinery costs up to several hundred-thousand dollars, and maintaining that equipment to ensure availability is critical for optimum productivity and profitability.
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Profit tips: Pasture management - Drought strategies
No, the cows in this photo are not grazing drought-stressed forages. These cows are enjoying lush North Carolina early-June grazing, thanks to rancher Mike Jones and some timely rains.
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Profit Tips: Genetics - Selecting for calmer cattle
Stockmen know that wild, temperamental cattle present a danger to handlers, facilities and other cattle.
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Profit Tips: Pasture management - Feeding cattle on sparse pastur
When drought limits forage availability, supplemental feeding on pasture can be economical, says University of Nebraska animal scientist Rick Rasby, PhD.
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Profit Tips: Animal health - Use timing, strategy for worm contr
Veterinarian Jon Seeger, with Pfizer Animal Health’s Veterinary Operations, says precise timing of strategic deworming results in success.
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Profit Tips: Pasture management - Nutrient recycling
Grazing management can be one of the most profitable endeavors for cattlemen. Rancher Mike Jones says grazing strategies must be a consideration year-round.
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Issues that Matter: Eye in the sky: EPA defends feedlot flyovers
In response to criticism last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims it has legal authority and precedent for using aerial photography to monitor compliance with the Clean Water Act.
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Profit Tips: Equipment - Portable calf hut
Rancher Phillip Hofer converted a salvaged water tank into a portable shelter for newborn calves.
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Issues that matter: FDA issues new antibiotic guidance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new guidance on the use of antibiotics in livestock production, drawing mixed responses from livestock organizations and groups opposed to antibiotics in agriculture.
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Profit Tips: Genetics - Seek simplicity in genetic selection
With the availability of expected progeny differences, selection indexes and genomic ratings for a wide range of traits, genetic decisions can become complex and intimidating.
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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
- Drought losses in Oklahoma top $400 million for 2012
- Corn and soybean prices continue to retrace 2012 drought rally
