Baxter Black, DVM: TESTOSTORONE TORO
Back in Timber’s youth he got a job helpin’ gather wild cattle out of the fields of an Arizona cotton farmer.
Baxter Black, DVM: TESTOSTORONE TORO
Back in Timber’s youth he got a job helpin’ gather wild cattle out of the fields of an Arizona cotton farmer.
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Warm Weather Brings Disease Risk
Thebeefsite.com
Dry farm fields and pastures are not the only challenges agricultural producers are facing so far this summer. Warmer-than-usual weather and a lack of precipitation are also contributing to disease threats to livestock, according to Kansas State University veterinarian Larry Hollis.
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Predator Protection for the Herd
Dr. Ken McMillan
DTN/The Progressive Farmer
Don’t laugh. A donkey or llama in the herd can keep predators at bay. But be sure the feeds and supplements you’re using are safe for them.
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Drier Pastures Causing Cattle Movement
Kim Watson Potts
Beef Today
It is getting dry in too many places, say University of Missouri Extension economists Ron Plain and Scott Brown. Nationally, 28% of pastures were rated poor or very poor in mid-June.
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Tom Noffsinger, Pat Guptill share insight on cattle handling
Melissa Burke
Tri State Livestock News
Low-stress animal handling was the topic of the day at the Tri-County Ag Day seminar, held June 8 at the South Dakota State University (SDSU) Cottonwood Research Station near Cottonwood, SD.
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Dealing with heat stress
Drovers
As the temperature increases ranchers and feedlot operators start to worry about the well-being of their cattle. However, it is not just heat that plays a part in heat stress; producers need to monitor all weather conditions such as: temperature, humidity and wind, closely and start interventions early in the day, well before noon.
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Beef industry tops $2 billion in five states
Ron Plain and Scott Brown
Southwest Farm Press
Five U.S. states had a 2011 value of cattle production in excess of $2 billion: Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and California. The total for the U.S. was a record $45.176 billion, up $8.2 billion from the year before.
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Our Industry Needs A Prosperity Mentality
Troy Marshall
BEEF
There is a trend that’s even more dangerous to the U.S. beef industry’s long-term health than the populist rhetoric that seeks to protect us from the invisible hand of the marketplace.
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The Opposite of Bulletproof
John Harrington
DTN
When I first started watching cattle markets many years ago, some hard-bitten beef producers actually questioned the manliness of certain risk-management practices.
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Management Important for Internal Parasite Control
Heather Smith Thomas
Cattle Today
Over the past few decades, stockmen have come to depend on deworming drugs for internal parasite control—to the point of overusing some of these drugs.
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