5 Ways to Help Cattle Beat the Heat
June 27, 2012
Kim Watson Potts
Beef Today
Hot, muggy weather is already here, which means it will be a long hot summer, especially for livestock. "Animals, cattle included, have difficulty regulating their body temperature during extreme heat," says Missouri veterinarian Dan Goehl. That heat stress can lead to death.
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Vaccine could aid in horn fly control
CLAY COPPEDGE
Country World
A lot of technologies, or at least the seed for those technologies, exist in sort of a vacuum between the university lab and the field where a farmer or rancher has to make a living.
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Survey Shows Producers Tolerate Aggressive Cows
Brooke Aitken & Joseph Stookey
BEEF
Each year, beef producers are injured by overly aggressive cows at calving time. In fact, 23 people were killed by cows over a recent 15-year period in Canada. In the U.S., injury reporting by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 14% of fatalities caused by cattle are due to beef cows with calves.
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EPA might get earful about flyover program
Joe Duggan
Omaha World Herald
Nebraska livestock farmers bent out of shape over a federal aerial surveillance program will get a chance next week to bend the ears of officials with the Environmental Protection Agency.
And it looks like Iowa producers will get to sound off at the end of August.
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Farmers, ranchers & consumers fight USDA animal ID scheme
Bandera County Courier
Agribusiness-friendly proposal viewed as threat to free commerce
A coalition of agriculture and consumer organizations from across the nation is challenging the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to push ahead with a complicated and expensive Animal ID program.
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Lack of Pastureland Increases Cattle Sales
Clint Misselhorn
WSIL
It’s brown, it’s dead, and it’s not growing. Area pastures are in poor shape. Anna cattle owner Oliver Ridgway says it’s time to sell cattle.
"Our pastures already dried up. The hayfields are cutting 50 percent less. CRP ground hasn’t been released so we can’t get hay there. So we’re forced, we’re in a bind" Ridgway said.
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Unlike Chicken And Pork, Beef Still Begins With Small Family Ranches
Peggy Lowe
GPB News
In the chicken and pork industries, nearly every aspect of the animals’ raising has long been controlled by just a handful of agriculture conglomerates. But the cattle industry is still populated by mom-and-pop operations, at least at the calf-raising level.
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Anne Burkholder focuses on final product for calf success
Cassie Payne Webb
Progressive Cattleman
Anne Burkholder was unlikely to become the nationally recognized feedyard operator and beef industry advocate she is today.
A native of West Palm Beach, Florida, she was a student athlete and psychology major at Dartmouth when she met her husband, Matt.
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Don’t cheat on mineral and vitamins for beef cows when managing their diet.
Kevin Gould
Michigan State University
Adequate mineral and vitamin nutrition is vital for optimizing animal growth, lactation, reproduction and immune response. Once the mineral status of the animal drops below threshold levels, it may affect response to vaccination, immunity to disease and parasite challenges and growth.
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Summer’s Heat Means Watching Cattle for Heat Stress
Terry Mader
University of Nebraska
With summer just starting and temperatures already approaching 100 degrees earlier this spring, cattle producers need to take steps to ward off heat stress in their herds, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln beef specialist said.
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