Adding Vitamin A to Diet Can Improve Performance
Stephen B. Blezinger, Ph.D., PAS
Cattle Today
Young, growing animals have a greater requirement for Vitamin D than mature animals. This is largely related to their rapid growth both structurally (skeleton) and other tissues. As mentioned previously, under normal conditions, cattle receive adequate vitamin D from exposure to direct sunlight or from consumption of three to four pounds of sun-cured forages daily.
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Make Minerals Count
Dr. Ken McMillan
DTN/The Progressive Farmer
Using fly-control minerals means doing the math to be sure the herd is consuming the right amount.
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Condition score cows at weaning
Rick Rasby
Angus Journal
For spring-calving cows, body condition at calving affects the calf at calving time and cow reproductive performance during the breeding season. Overconditioning cows, especially if the extra condition is fed on, is wasting money. Underconditioning cows, especially young females, is risky because their performance can be inconsistent
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K-State studies show benefits of early calf weaning
Drovers
It’s always been done this way, right? Calves are weaned in the fall. But drought conditions in the Plains states prompted some beef producers to wean calves earlier than usual in recent years, which may have been surprisingly beneficial, according to recent Kansas State University studies.
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NDSU facility conducts pertinent research for beef industry
Grand Forks Herald
Two years ago, North Dakota State University opened a beef cattle research facility unlike any other at a U.S. university. Since then, NDSU’s Beef Cattle Research Complex has helped raise awareness of beef cattle research and education in North Dakota to a national and international level.
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USDA Delivers Assistance To Ranchers Affected By S.D. Blizzard
Beef Producer
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Michael Scuse Tuesday met with ranchers in Rapid City, S.D., to announce availability of conservation funding following the early October blizzard that wiped out thousands of cattle.
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Report slams continued antibiotic use in U.S. livestock
Charles Abbott
Reuters
U.S. regulators and livestock producers have failed to curb the use of antibiotics in cattle, pigs and poultry despite concerns that excessive use in meat production will reduce the drugs’ effectiveness in humans, a panel of experts said.
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Why Did South Dakota Snowstorm Kill So Many Cattle?
Irina Zhorov
National Geographic
Rancher Marvin Jobgen has weathered many storms in his 40 years in business, but he’s never lost as many cattle as he did during the record-setting winter storm Atlas. A third of his cows, about 100, and 15 percent of his calves died. Two weeks after the October 4 blizzard, livestock producers in western South Dakota are still counting their losses and burying would-be profits in bone pits.
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HSUS on the ranch
Western Livestock Journal
There were some big surprises on a gorgeous Colorado fall day. Not only was Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), on a beef ranch for the first time, he also voiced support for animal agriculture. There was, of course, a catch.
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BPI’s Defamation Lawsuit Against ABC Goes to Court in December
WCAU
Oral arguments are scheduled for December in a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit over ABC News’ coverage of a meat product that critics dub “pink slime.”
The lawsuit filed by Beef Products Inc. was moved in June from federal court to circuit court. ABC is asking the circuit judge to dismiss the case.
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