Bunk management refers to matching the amount of feed delivered to the amount of feed cattle can consume without causing digestive upsets. The simplest form of bunk management is to provide cattle with ad libitum feed, which means to ensure feed is always available. More refined bunk managem…
One of the most-important traits in the beef herd is reproduction. Any female that ends up open at the end of the year is costing the operation additional money.
If beef producers lose 20% or more of their herd, how upset would they be? How about a corn farmer hat lost 20% of a standing cornfield to pests or some other natural disaster?
Corn country landscape - painted late summer - high clouds, heavy with moisture waiting for afternoon to thicken and darken and start raising Cain.
As if cattle producers aren’t stressed enough with the drought, we are now dealing with high numbers of pinkeye in our calves.
To produce superior genetics, the cattle at Trauernicht Simmentals are each raised as stars with finesse — those two descriptions are actually…
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Adding new herd members represents a significant investment. Typically, producers spend a great deal of time evaluating pedigrees, genomics an…
Well begun is half done. This old idiom could be restated, “a calf well started is half finished.”
AMES, Iowa — Several counties in Iowa have been released for emergency haying and grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres. While u…
Drought conditions have created major issues for livestock and crop producers in the upper Midwest.
Now is the time to develop your cattle grazing forage base for the fall and winter months,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extensi…
STOCKTON, Mo. — “Castrate bulls as young as possible for optimum performance and profitability,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Ex…
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