Baxter Black, DVM: Cowboy Coffee
I am married to a Starbucks fiend (sounds better than user or addict).
Baxter Black, DVM: Cowboy Coffee
I am married to a Starbucks fiend (sounds better than user or addict).
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Cattle Diseases Becoming More Widespread
Boyd Kidwell
Progressive Farmer
It’s those dramatic outbreaks of mad cow or foot-and-mouth disease that capture the headlines. But these high-profile diseases aren’t the ones putting most operations at risk.
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Base feed purchases and use on feed analysis
Rick Rasby
Angus Journal
Summer haying is well under way. Some areas of the United States have received some spring rains and the cool-season forage production was pretty good.
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The Future Of Beef Cattle Breeding And Genetics
B. Lynn Gordon
iGrow
Dr. Joe Cassady believes the biggest challenges facing beef cattle breeding and genetics are to identify the appropriate direction in which change should be made and then maintain that selection for years or decades.
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Cattle producers should watch for stress as hot weather returns
Hannah Harper
Ag Answers
Heat and humidity are set to return to the eastern Corn Belt after weeks of unseasonably cool temperatures, meaning cattle producers need to be on the lookout for signs of heat stress in their herds.
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Helping fall-calving cows and heifers during the calving process
Glenn Selk
Drovers
Fall calving season is (or soon will be) upon the Oklahoma ranches that have fall and winter calving. An issue facing the rancher at calving-time, is the amount of time heifers or cows are allowed to be in labor before assistance is given. Traditional text books, fact sheets and magazine articles stated that “Stage II” of labor lasted from 2 to 4 hours.
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Texas Cattle Feeders Tackle Price Discovery Problem
Oklahoma Farm Report
One of the growing problems in today’s feedlot industry is price discovery. Fewer and fewer cattle are going on the cash market to be priced.
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Pasture calving makes work easier
Western Producer
Standing in shin deep grass on a patch of pasture near his farm, Kent Dalrymple turned his head and gestured toward a stack of straw bales 300 metres to the south.
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Do consumers really want to see where their food comes from?
Ryan Goodman
Clickon Detroit
Transparency in food and agriculture can have different meanings to different groups of people. An Illinois farmer, Katie Pratt, recently discussed on Eatocracy, transparency includes having an open mind for education on both sides of the plate.
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Performance-Enhancing Cattle Drugs in National Youth Show Ring Competitions
PRWeb
Beef Additive Alert™, a new national consumer action campaign, calls for an immediate ban of aggressive performance-enhancing cattle drugs in the USDA-NIFA’s national 4-H program and the U.S. Education Department-led ‘Future Farmers of America’ organization.
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