Video Feature: Mobile Slaughter Units

Video Feature: Mobile Slaughter Units

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Methods Available to Estimate Forage Quality

Methods Available to Estimate Forage Quality

North Dakota State University

Producers have ways to help them determine when to harvest alfalfa.

Neutral detergent fiber concentrations can help producers determine when to harvest alfalfa as feed for dairy cows, according to North Dakota State University Extension Service dairy specialist J.W. Schroeder.

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Feeding Beef Cattle: Tips for a Healthy, Pasture-Based Diet

Feeding Beef Cattle: Tips for a Healthy, Pasture-Based Diet

Mother Earth News

Forage (pasture, silage, hay) is the most natural feed for cattle. Ruminants do very well on forage but don’t grow quite as fast or get fat as quickly as when they are fed grain. Many young cattle are finished in feedlots on grain to save time and total feed.

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Big guys handling Kentucky’s beef aren’t so big

Big guys handling Kentucky’s beef aren’t so big

David Mudd

Southsider Magazine

Here’s a scene to get the blood pumping: I was in the office of two aggrieved meat cutters one day in late March, my back to the door, when even more people familiar with the business end of a butcher knife entered. And they, too, had bones to pick with me.

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Purdue’s Forage Field Guide revised to offer more information

Purdue’s Forage Field Guide revised to offer more information

AG Answers

The Purdue Extension Forage Field Guide has been revised to give producers better insight into current forage issues.

"The revised field guide has been enhanced and is more complete," said Keith Johnson, Purdue Extension forage specialist.

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Black Ink: Time and money

Black Ink:  Time and money

Miranda Reiman

Certified Angus beef

Cutting back, lowering inputs, pinching pennies—they’ve all become catch phrases, a result of the recent recession. But before you tighten the belt on your cowherd or scale back on management, health or nutrition, be sure to weigh the impact.

Being cost conscious pays in any economic climate, but you can only cut so much across the board before you cause harm. The secret is to get the most out of all inputs.

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Pre-Harvest Management Controls and Interventions to Reduce E. coli O157:H7 Shedding in Cattle

Pre-Harvest Management Controls and Interventions to Reduce E. coli O157:H7 Shedding in Cattle

Thebeefsite.com/FSIS

A compliance guide has been published by the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) to provide beef slaughter establishments with an informational resource on pre-harvest management controls for reducing E. coli O157:H7 shedding in beef cattle.

The preharvest management practices and interventions are divided into the following general areas: (1) cattle water and feed, (2) live animal treatments, and (3) management practices and transportation.

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Meat and Anti-Trust

Meat and Anti-Trust

DTN

In a somewhat odd story, the Associated Press recently reported that, "the federal government is conducting its first investigation into whether the handful of large meatpackers" that slaughter most of the nation’s cattle are illegally or unfairly driving down cattle prices.

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Inspect Stock Trailers Before Transporting Cattle

Inspect Stock Trailers Before Transporting Cattle

North Dakota State University

Inspecting your stock trailer before loading cattle can save headaches later.

With spring work winding down in many areas of the state, beef producers are starting to bring cattle out to summer pastures.

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Steve Cornett : Meatless Mondays

Steve Cornett :  Meatless Mondays

Beef Today

The Washington Post has a take on Meatless Mondays that is fairly well sourced and presents a more balanced view of the anti-meat movement than some of what you read these days.

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Cattlemen’s Scholarship Winner Looks Toward Vet Center

Cattlemen’s Scholarship Winner Looks Toward Vet Center

Lancaster Farming

“I’ll raise sheep and cattle ‘til I die.” Those are some firm-sounding words — especially when they come from an 18-year-old high school senior. But that’s exactly how Troy Longenecker, of Annville, Lebanon County, responded when this aspiring veterinarian was asked about what his future holds.

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CattleSense: The Most Important Nutrient

CattleSense: The Most Important Nutrient

cattlenetwork.com

Green grass is a welcome sight, especially for everyone coming out of “the winter that wouldn’t end.” And as cattle head to summer pasture, focus is on the high-quality nutrition available in that new growth.

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Culling Decisions and Trich

Culling Decisions and Trich

Dan Goehl.

Beef Today

A Reader Asks:

Last fall we preg-checked our cows and 10% were open. We had the bulls checked and one bull checked out positive for trich. So we rechecked the other bulls two more times and and test results were all negative. We sold the bull that proved positive.

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Up In A Down Market Branded Beef Doing Well Despit the Weak Economy

Up In A Down Market Branded Beef Doing Well Despit the Weak Economy

Walt Barnhart

BEEF Magazine

Changes in consumer spending and a troubled world economy would make any marketer nervous these days. Those marketing branded-beef products, however, are focusing on silver linings and opportunities the market may present.

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The life of Rob Krentz

The life of Rob Krentz

Jim Olson

Tri State Livestock News

Don called Rob up one day and said, “Hey Rob, I’ve got this prolapsed cow over at the Double Adobe Ranch locked up in the corral and I was wondering if you could give me a hand?”

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