Is the Angus Breed on the Right Course?
Dr. Bob Hough
The American Angus Association (AAA) must be admired for always supplying their breeders with industry-leading selection tools. Let’s look at what they have accomplished over the years.
Is the Angus Breed on the Right Course?
Dr. Bob Hough
The American Angus Association (AAA) must be admired for always supplying their breeders with industry-leading selection tools. Let’s look at what they have accomplished over the years.
Posted in Uncategorized
Livestock theft goes online
The Cattle Business Weekly
A crime that has been around since the days of the old west has evolved with modern technology. Cattle rustling, or livestock theft in general, is still a major concern of Oregon ranchers for several reasons.
Posted in Uncategorized
Can clover help me cut fertilizer costs?
Dr. Ken McMillan
Contributing Editor
Q: I’m thinking about planting clover to try to cut down on fertilizer costs. Is it worth the hassle and the expense?
A: I think it is, and I’m glad you realize that there is some hassle and expense to establishing clovers in your pastures.
Posted in Uncategorized
Research on AI Pays Off
Bill Beal
Angus Journal
Richard Saacke has spent more than 50 years researching topics related to bovine semen quality and artificial insemination (AI). Semen evaluation procedures developed by Saacke and others have allowed the majority of low-fertility bulls to be identified and eliminated from use for AI.
Posted in Uncategorized
Litter Fertilizer
Ryan Goodman
Beef Today
Chicken Litter, or composted poultry house bedding and manure. Driving through the back roads and state highways of Arkansas, there is that familiar scent of litter being delivered to the pastures.
Posted in Uncategorized
NMSU to Host Youth Ranch Management Camp
Jane Moorman
New Mexico State University’s Cooperative Extension Service is seeking youth ages 15 through 19 to participate in a unique summer experience, June 5-10, at the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
Posted in Uncategorized
F1 Females are their Own Class of Working Mothers
Clifford Mitchell
Cattle Today
Specific jobs demand the right tools. Most would not send young men to football practice without the proper equipment; plan a trip when the roads are bad without having snow tires or buy a house without running water and electricity.
Posted in Uncategorized
Area calving season brings new life and longtime tradition.
Lou Hebert
Toledo on the Move
For area livestock farmers, this is a busy time of year. It’s calving season. The time when the newborn calves, one-by-one, are making their way into the world. At The H.G. Moore Homestead Farm in rural Ottawa County, the barn is filled this month with new black angus calves, not more than a week or two old. And more are on the way.
Posted in Uncategorized
Beef traceability systems: If not now, when?
H. Russell Cross
The National Provisioner
During the spring of 1993, in the midst of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, the Secretary of Agriculture asked me how many federally inspected beef plants in the United States had voluntarily implemented HACCP.
Posted in Uncategorized
A tool to reduce stress, sickness in calves
Amanda Radke
Tri State Livestock News
Calving season is already underway for many, and once winter fades away, it will quickly be replaced by spring. Often times wet and muddy, spring offers a multitude of health issues for producers to fight in their calves including scours, pneumonia and coccidiosis.
Posted in Uncategorized