Glenn Selk
This year test the forage before you cut!
Hot dry summer weather brings about heat and drought stress on summer annuals. Stressed plants such as the forage sorghums can occasionally accumulate dangerous concentrations of nitrates.
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Nitrate toxicity after a drought-easing rain
Oklahoma summers often bring “high pressure domes” that cause 100+ degree days and no rain. The resulting heat stress can cause nitrate accumulation in summer annual forage crops.
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As summer heats up, so do water-toxicity issues
The 2011 Fourth of July Holiday brought warnings for humans about “Blue-green algae” in one of the large Oklahoma lakes used for recreation. Blue-green algae has often been a concern to livestock producers in late summer in Oklahoma.
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Cow-Calf Corner: Beef Production Tips
Cow-Calf Corner is a collection of timely management tips of interest to cow-calf producers in Oklahoma.
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Closely monitor medicated mineral intake
Medicated minerals are available and frequently used to help prevent the blood-born disease, anaplasmosis.
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Weaning fall-born calves
Many cow/calf operations with fall-born calves will wean the calves in mid to late June. Weaning during very hot summer weather is stressful enough to the calves.
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Evaluate udder soundness now to use as culling criteria next fall
Every year at "preg" checking time, ranchers evaluate cows and make decisions as which to remove from the herd.
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Early summer de-worming of nursing calves affected summer weight gain
Five de-worming trials were conducted during the 1990’s at the Oklahoma State University Eastern Research Station located at Haskell, Oklahoma.
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Economic advantages to implanting nursing calves
Many new technologies have been made available to the beef industry over the last 75 years. Few have the potential return on investment as do growth promoting implants for nursing calves.
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Protecting more calves from respiratory diseases
It soon will be time to "work" the spring-born calves. Research is available that suggests that the young calves may be vaccinated with products used for protection against the respiratory diseases (IBR and BVDV).
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Early weaning for the beef herd
This article could probably be titled "What to Do If All Else Fails". Certainly no one ever plans to find himself in a drought, short of forage, and with a group of cows too thin to breed.
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- Commentary: New rules un-COOL
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- NASA backs 3D food printer to feed growing population
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
