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Profit Tips: Cattle feeding - Short feeding and carcass quality
High grain prices and cost of gain in the feedyard have driven recent interest in managing cattle to heavier weights on forage, followed by shorter finishing periods on grainbased rations.
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Profit Tips: Genetics - Prepare before purchasing bulls
As bull-sale season gets underway, Kansas State University cow-calf specialist Bob Weaber, PhD, advises ranchers to do their homework to ensure bulls they purchase meet their needs.
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Profit Tips: Management - Easy wintering
Mild winter weather across much of the United States has made winter chores much easier than normal.
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Issues that matter: Protein, weight gain and body fat
Results of a recent study at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana indicate that excess calories, whether from low- or high-protein diets, contribute to weight gain and body fat.
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Issues that matter: ALF takes credit for Harris Farms fire
Animal-rights activists have claimed responsibility for the Jan. 8, 2012, arson fire that heavily damaged 14 tractors and several cattle trailers at Harris Farms in Fresno County, Calif.
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Profit Tips: Management - Managing for game and cattle
For many farmers and ranchers, game birds and other wildlife offer an additional source of revenue from hunters willing to pay for access to private land.
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Profit Tips: Reproduction - Compare synchronization programs
Researchers at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center compared two estrus synchronization systems for timed artificial insemination.
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Profit Tips: Nutrition - Distillers’ grains for growing cattle
Noting that energy density in growing diets could affect carcass characteristics, researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin conducted a trial to evaluate the source, specifically dried distillers’ grains with solubles for growing cattle.
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Profit Tips: Management - Build a loyal, productive staff
We often hear that people make the difference in successful livestock businesses. As an employer, Harry Knobbe takes it to heart.
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Profit Tips: Facilities - Compact storage
Every farm or ranch shop needs a method for organizing and storing small items.
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Perception GAP: Dialogue to meet call for welfare standards
For nearly 20 years, the beef industry has pursued a goal of becoming more consumer oriented.
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- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- Commentary: New rules un-COOL
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
