Week In review http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review RSS Feed for Week In review en-us Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:51:29 GMT What are your decisions with flood-damaged grain? http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review/What-are-your-decisions-with-flood-damaged-grain-124485304.html Many farmsteads have been lost, whether they were in the New Madrid Floodway in southeastern Missouri, or somewhere along the Ohio, Mississippi, or Missouri Rivers and their many tributaries. Replanting following bad weather http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review/Replanting-following-bad-weather-124450464.html After disaster strikes, replanting a grain crop may be nearly impossible due to herbicide carryover, the late planting date, or lack of seed. As a result, annual emergency forage crops might be your only choice. Commentary: Does 4-H create cold-blooded killers? http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review/Commentary-Does-4-H-create-cold-blooded-killers-124449799.html You know there’s disconnect between rural and urban folks when the local 4-H kids come under fire as desensitized to the suffering of animals. Agriculture may believe 4-H, FFA and the Boy Scouts are wholesome efforts to educate our children, but there’s apparently more than a few misguided souls who think otherwise. USMEF, Oklahoma State collaborate on dry-aging beef study http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review/USMEF-Oklahoma-State-collaborate-on-dry-aging-beef-study-124449199.html A study that analyzes differing techniques for dry aging of U.S. beef destined for international markets has been completed for the USMEF by researchers at Oklahoma State University’s Department of Animal Science. Deere says proposal interferes with GPS use in agriculture http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review/Deere-says-proposal-interferes-with-GPS-use-in-agriculture-124446784.html Deere & Company said today that a proposal under consideration by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) jeopardizes use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) in agriculture and construction equipment. How to protect water quality around livestock pastures http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review/How-to-protect-water-quality-around-livestock-pastures-124446144.html There are four simple management strategies that farms pasturing livestock can do to protect water quality. Flooding and stored grain http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/week-in-review/Flooding-and-stored-grain-124423794.html Iowa is facing its third significant flooding situation in five years, which again raises the possibility of stored grain being inundated with floodwater.