Baxter Black, DVM: THE COWBOY AND THE VET
I’ve oft addressed the challenge of being true to the cowboy life. Remember, the cowboy’s dream is to be able to support himself throughout his life…without ever getting a job!
Baxter Black, DVM: THE COWBOY AND THE VET
I’ve oft addressed the challenge of being true to the cowboy life. Remember, the cowboy’s dream is to be able to support himself throughout his life…without ever getting a job!
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Plan now for heifer development
Dave Barz, DVM
Tri State Livestock News
I’m sorry to say the ground hog saw its shadow a week ago on Ground Hog’s Day. That can only mean six more weeks of winter, but as most of you will agree, “How bad can six more weeks of winter like this be?”
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A Lousy Situation
Troy Smith
Hereford World
When cold comes to cow country, the conditions are good for cattle lice. What we mean is these parasitic insects are more apt to be problematic. So it comes as no surprise to veterinarians when more producers report lice infestations during and immediately following a cold winter.
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Collaboration Set to Revolutionize Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle
Cattle Today
For generations, agricultural producers have continued to produce more food with fewer resources. Unfortunately, their greatest test is yet to come.
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Japan Looks To Raise US Beef Age Limit
Thebeefsite.com
US – Japan, once the US’s biggest customer, is considering lifting the age limit on cattle slaughtered for beef to 30 months, from 20 months.
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Cull Breeding Stock Carefully
By Dr. Ken McMillan
Progressive Farmer
Annual performance, not strictly age, should be a primary criteria come culling time.
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How to Get Beef Herd Expansion Going
Derrell Peel
Oklahoma Farm Report
The beef replacement heifer inventory is a pool of potential replacements from which a certain percentage will actually be placed into the herd. It is the flow of heifers placed that is important in terms of herd expansion or contraction.
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Cattle Vision
Randy Kuhn
Beef Today
Cattle have a wide area of peripheral vision, with only a small blind spot immediately behind the animal
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Important practices for healthy, productive newborn calves
Jack C. Whittier
Progressive Cattlemen
With the current cattle market – calf prices reached an all-time high in late 2011 – having healthy, productive calves when marketing time arrives is vital to overall ranch profitability.
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Replacement Heifer Economics
Dillon Feuz
Tri State Livestock News
Based on the sales receipts I have been seeing lately, there appears to be a lively market for bred heifers and bred young cows, particularly in northern cow-calf country. I suppose a combination of selling 2011 5-weight steer calves for $165-175 per hundredweight and the expectation that 2012 prices will even be higher will generate a little herd rebuilding excitement.
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