Profit Tips
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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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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Profit Tips: Genetics - Enhance cow longevity
Given the ever-increasing costs associated with developing or purchasing replacement females, greater cow longevity certainly has economic benefits for the commercial producer.
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Profit Tips: Feedyard management Adaptation — what to look for
In Webster’s Dictionary, adaptation is defined as: “… the evolutionary process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat."
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Profit Tips: Reproduction - Invest in heifer development
With the cow herd at its lowest level since 1973, drought in the southern range states and optimism for increased export demand, the stage is set for heifer retention to increase over the next few years.
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Profit Tips: Cow-calf management - Score body conditions now
Body-condition score on a beef cow is the closest thing we have to a dip stick for determining, at a glance.
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Profit Tips: Facilities - Gate holder
Tires get double-duty at the Koch Ranch in North Dakota.
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- Ag commodities seemed directionless Wednesday morning
- U.S. wheat conditions well below average
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Cornell genetic testing process cuts costs by up to 75 percent
- Angus Foundation receives $28,500 from “The Card Challenge”
- Commentary: In praise of animal foods
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- Drought losses in Oklahoma top $400 million for 2012
- Corn and soybean prices continue to retrace 2012 drought rally
