Carcass traits are a major profit driver
Dr. Bob Hough
The Cattle Business Weekly
Over the last 20 years the beef industry has gone through significant structural changes that have dramatically changed the profit driver matrix in the beef industry. Over this time, the industry has moved from an almost exclusively cash market to one that is now value-based, so the need for cattle to have the potential to excel in end product characteristics has become paramount.
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Identification is key to livestock record keeping
Shane Gadberry
Bovine Veterinarian
The truck in the driveway has a VIN, the vaccine in the refrigerator has a lot number, but does the cow and her calf in the field have a tag? According to the most recent NAHMS survey, cow and herd identification is least common when herd size was less than 50 cows.
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See Mob Grazing In Action
Lon Tonneson
Beef Producer
Three South Dakota ranchers offer mob grazing tips, how-to advice and anecdotes in three videos shot by South Dakota State University staff. Pat Guptill, Quinn; Charlie Totten, Chamberlain; and Richard Smith, Hayti, tell how mob grazing has improved forage production, stretched their grass supply, increased stocking rates, upped soil health, made cows happier and healthier and put some extra income in their pockets.
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Millennials, The Farmer’s Friend
Gary Truitt
Hoosier AG TOday
Those of us in agriculture know all too well who our critics are. From TV talk shows to social media channels, the anti-farm, anti-animal, anti-GMO, anti-everything crowd — along with those organizations who make money by bashing agriculture and scaring people about their food, our critics have no problem making their voices heard.
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House calls for monument designation oversight
Theodora Dowling
Western Livestock Journal
If the president designates 2 million acres of federal land as a national monument, and nobody is around to hear it, can it still bring a local economy to its knees? According to university research, interviewed locals, and Congress, yes, it can. In fact, it’s precisely what happened after President Clinton single-handedly in 1996 designated the Grand Stair-Case Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southern Utah.
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Remembering the late John Bartee
Jimmy Settle
The Leaf Chronicle
The late University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service director for Montgomery County, John D. Bartee, was not always one for being in the limelight. That was just his style. But, maybe that’s one of the reasons this gentle giant was beloved not only in the northern middle Tennessee area, but throughout the state, and the entire Southeastern United States, for that matter.
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Many reasons for vaccine changes
Roy Lewis, DVM
The Western Producer
There are many difficult decisions to be made when changing the brand or manufacturer of a vaccine line. The first thing producers must do is determine what diseases they will be vaccinating against, whether they use a modified live, killed or combined program and how effective they think their program was originally.
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