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Profit Tips: Cow-calf management - Implants in nursing calves
As ranchers think about vaccination programs they’ll use at branding, University of Nebraska cow-calf and range-management specialist Karla Jenkins, PhD, says only a few consider how growth implants could be used as a management tool for the nursing calf.
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Profit Tips: Equipment - Durable mineral feeder
Commercial mineral and salt feeders are one expense Richard Roth eliminates on the IX Ranch, Big Sandy, Mont.
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Issues that matter: Arming our front-line beef marketers
Consumers have questions about beef, but who provides the answers?
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Issues that matter: Genomics — simplified
DNA testing in beef cattle and the potential for using genomic information in selection continues to evolve and become more powerful.
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Issues that matter: Don Good, noted cattle judge, dies
Don L. Good, former head of the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University and a distinguished and influential livestock judge, died Feb. 14, 2012, at his home in Manhattan, Kan. He was 90.
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NBAF funding cut from White House budget
President Obama’s federal budget recommends that no new funding be allocated for the construction of a new biosecurity lab in Manhattan, Kan.
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Profit Tips: Management - Online weather resources
The unusual weather across the United States this year has brought some drought relief to the southern Plains while raising concerns over lack of moisture in parts of the northern Corn Belt.
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Profit Tips: Marketing - Traits that add value to calves
Calving season is still underway for many ranches, but this is a good time to begin planning and preparing to receive top prices when those calves go to market.
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Profit Tips: Pasture Management - 300 days of grazing
As prices for harvested feeds, fuel and fertilizer continue to rise, cow-calf and stocker operators recognize that more grazing and less feeding can reduce production costs and improve profits. With that in mind, specialists at the University of Arkansas have developed a “300 Day Grazing Program.”
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Profit Tips: Reproduction - Rectal palpation and pregnancy loss
Researchers at Texas A&M University recently conducted a study to determine whether rectal palpation for pregnancy determination affects pregnancy loss, as sometimes believed.
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Profit Tips: Nutrition - Byproduct feeds for gestating cows
With calving season rapidly approaching for springcalving cows, nutrition becomes critical.
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