Profit Tips
Profit Tips: Management - Does stalk grazing reduce yields?
Corn residue offers a cost-effective winter grazing option for producers across the Corn Belt, especially when hay supplies are tight and prices high.
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Profit Tips: Financial Planning - Tax planning following drought
The drought disaster declaration has given livestock producers in many areas options for deferring income from livestock sales in 2012.
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Profit Tips: High feed costs boost value of preg-checking
With hay and grain prices at historic highs, the cost of feeding open cows this winter will have a greater impact on profitability than ever before.
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Profit Tips: Equipment - Gate support
Cattle gates and posts in heavily used areas take a lot of stress and abuse.
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Profit Tips: Management - Pricing cornstalk leases
How much should cattle producers pay for grazing crop residue this winter, and how should they negotiate a fair price with landowners?
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Profit Tips: Animal Health - Tips to manage mycotoxins
This year’s weather produced the right environment for mycotoxins in grain, creating the potential for animal-health problems.
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Profit Tips: Reproduction - Consider timing for repro vaccines
When a cow is in the chute for pregnancy checking, many cow-calf producers take advantage of the opportunity to perform other necessary procedures to get their cows ready for the winter and the subsequent calving season.
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Profit Tips: Animal Health - Use caution grazing cornstalks
Corn-stubble fields provide a cost-effective winter-grazing opportunity in a year of drought-induced feed shortages, but managers should take precautions to avoid acidosis that can occur when hungry cattle consume too much starch.
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Profit Tips: Nutrition - Test your feeds this year
This year’s dry conditions have resulted in ranchers feeding lower-quality hay and, in many cases, turning to less conventional forage sources.
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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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