Baxter Black, DVM: If Cows Could Talk
“If you are in a hurry, be deliberate.”
BeefTalk: Being Proactive is Better Than Reactive When Working Cattle
Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service
“Blunt force trauma” is a set of words one would not expect to use starting a beef column. However, the topic of this column is safety, and working cattle can be challenging.
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Reduce Feed Costs with Commodity Storage
John Tyson
Beef Today
Commodity feeding can be a money saving or money losing game, and each farm needs to look at their numbers and make that decision for their operation.
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Consider Grazing Mineral Nutrition for Beef Cows
South Dakota Ag Connection
With the recent moisture that much of South Dakota received, grass is growing and many cattle have been moved to summer pasture. With that move and change in feed, ranchers need to be aware of the nutrient requirements of their livestock and ensure they are all being met, including energy, protein, minerals, vitamins and water.
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Can’t wait for hay to dry? Consider making baleage
Brett Wessler
Drovers
Missouri, and many states to the east, have received more rain this year, making it difficult to wait until hay is dry to harvest. If you need to get hay out of the field, a Missouri Extension specialist suggests making baleage.
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Cattle Producers Keep Pushing for Full Repeal of Death Tax
Oklahoma Farm Report
Cattle Producers Keep Pushing for Full Repeal of Death Tax A pair of bills were introduced earlier this month in the US Congress that would fully repeal the Estate Tax at the Federal level, going a step further than legislation that was put into place at the very beginning of 2013.
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Beef producers shouldn’t focus on single trait EPDs to improve herds
Amanda Gee
Ag Answers
Expected progeny differences, or EPDs, can help beef producers evaluate bulls when looking to improve their cattle herds, but they shouldn’t focus on just one trait, a Purdue Extension beef specialist says.
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Great Falls cattle ranchers endure drought, rising feed prices
Rita McKinney
Examiner.com
Demand for Montana raised beef is high and cattle ranchers are enduring continued droughts and rising feed prices, according to Montana Stockgrowers Association CEO Errol Rice.
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Bovine extortion
Missoula Independent
I have a beef with the letter from Chuck Denowh, policy director of United Property Owners of Montana. It displays a particular brand of self-serving hypocrisy common with ranchers who graze their cattle at subsidized rates on public land, i.e. "welfare ranchers."
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Most Vegetarians Ate Meat Yesterday, According to Polls
Dain Fitzgerald
Politix
Over half of self-described vegetarians ate something perhaps lean – but very much not green – as recently as yesterday, according to a new survey.
Business Insider reports on two polls revealing that the minority of American eaters who fancy themselves vegetarians aren’t living up to that label.
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