Profit Tips
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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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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