Converting Pastures To Crabgrass
Ann Behling
Hay and Forage Grower
The past 17 years, V. Mac Baldwin has slowly and successfully incorporated summer-annual crabgrass as part of his Yanceyville, NC, grazing operation. He estimates average daily gains of 2-3 lbs/head.
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Forage, corn feed alternative for cattle may come from biodiesel industry
Kay Ledbetter
North Texas e-News
Crude glycerin, a byproduct of biodiesel production, could be an economical ingredient in cattle diets, according to studies by Texas AgriLife Research and West Texas A&M University personnel.
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Prescribed Grazing Management
Randy Kuhn
Beef Today
The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides assistance to ranchers and farmers who wish to apply grazing management to their operation.
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Certified Angus Beef Awards $21,000 In Colvin Scholarships
AgriMarketing
Seven university students from across the Unites States have won $21,000 through the Certified Angus Beef ® brand Colvin Scholarship. The awards recognize their commitment in both activities and scholastic achievement.
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With calving season under way, beef-cattle producers look toward pivotal year
Eric Brown
The Fence Post
Bouncing across rolling hills of blue grama and buffalo grasses northeast of Nunn, Colo., in a flatbed Ford F-250, Peterson can’t help but grin and chuckle just a bit as he checks out the new additions on his pastures.
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One-way ticket to ride
Jennifer M. Latzke
High Plains Journal
Every day feedyards across the High Plains load cattle for shipment on a one-way journey to a processing plant–usually just down the road a ways.
But with the rise of a new middle class worldwide with an increasing appetite for high-quality proteins, that one-way journey may take those cattle halfway around the globe.
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‘Pink slime’: Revolting beef additive or absolutely edible?
Amy Hubbard
the33tv.com
"Pink slime," a food additive made from spare beef trimmings that’s treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill off E. coli, salmonella and other possible bacteria, continues to rear its slimy head.
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Dade County farmer says thieves took half his cattle herd
Ashley Reynolds
KY3 News
It’s an on-going problem in rural areas of the Ozarks. A Dade County farmer says he lost half his herd of beef cattle.
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North Dakota cattle ranchers enjoy prosperity after lean years
Jonathan Knutson
Inforum
Veteran rancher Keith Johnson has lived through droughts, blizzards and long stretches of poor prices.
That makes him appreciate this winter even more. Beef prices have soared to record highs, reaching levels he describes as “unimaginable, the highest we’ve seen in our lifetime.”
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Switch to beef cattle could be the savior of declining Western Massachusetts dairy farms
Stan Freeman
Masslive.com
Raised in a Boston suburb, Johanna Andersen-Pratt took the back-to-the-land philosophy to heart in the 1970s and milked cows on a dairy farm here for two years after college.
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