Profit Tips
Profit Tips: Cow-calf management - Selecting replacement heifers
Several years of herd liquidation, compounded by severe drought, make replacement heifers a valuable commodity as ranchers seek to add numbers.
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Profit Tips: Finance - Lease or own cows and bulls?
In several situations, ranchers might want to consider leasing arrangements for establishing or expanding a beef herd.
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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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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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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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- Feeder cattle review: Feed report neutral to slightly bearish
- Cattle Outlook: Retail choice beef up 9% over past 2 years
- United States Cattle on Feed down 3 percent
- Family contribution takes reward for cattle shooting over $16k
- Nebraska Cattle on Feed down 3 percent
- Oklahoma Cattle on Feed unchanged
- New school lunch beef recipes win approval from kids, foodservice
- Drier weather to give big boost to U.S. corn plantings
- Prices for corn and soybeans, five years from now
- Agriculture is expected to remain strong in the coming decade
- What sick day? Farmers take just three a year
- Senate Agriculture Committee completes Farm Bill markup
