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Focus on Fertility: The Bull Side of the Equation
Stephen B. Blezinger, Ph.D., PAS
Cattle Today
In a productive, profitable cattle operation, fertility is absolutely critical. From the most basic of perspectives, fertility, in both male and female animals, is the capability for creating life.
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Plan For Drought When Preparing Pasture Lease
Bruce Anderson
University of Nebraska
Do you rent pasture? What happens if drought lowers pasture production below expectations? Specifically, what does your pasture lease say about drought?
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Keep Good Colostrum Replacers and Electrolytes at the Ready
Victoria G. Myers
Progressive Farmer
Once a beef calf hits the ground, the clock is ticking. What happens, or doesn’t happen, as each hour passes will determine, to a large extent, whether that calf thrives. It all starts with colostrum.
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Maintaining Health throughout the Backgrounding Period
Beef Today
Even though calves may have been on a backgrounding program for several months, it doesn’t mean they are safe from subsequent health issues later on in the feeding period, explained Russ Daly, Professor and SDSU Extension Veterinarian, and Reid McDaniel, Assistant Professor and SDSU Extension Feedlot Specialist.
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Is grass-fed beef really better for you, the animal and the planet?
Tamer Haspel
Washington Post
Grass-fed beef is the meat of the moment. The image of cattle dotting green hillsides is an appealing counterpoint to the thought of herds corralled in crowded, grass-free feedlots. Advocates claim a trifecta of advantages: Grass-fed beef is better for you, for the animal and for the planet.
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Getting cows bred might be pretty simple after all
R.P. “Doc” Cooke
Beef Producer
I have heard a lot of ideas about how to get cows bred but experience has taught me many of those hypotheses don’t work. After 35 years and 800,000 miles logged in five middle-Tennessee counties working with hundreds of beef producers who averaged less than 20 cows, it would be difficult for a veterinarian with a real interest in profitable animal agriculture to miss these stories.
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Proposed limits on animal prizes worry cattlemen’s group
Mateusz Perkowski
Capital Press
Proposed restrictions on “rabbit scrambles” and similar contests that award live animals as prizes have alarmed the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association, which fears impacts on rodeo events. House Bill 2641 is intended to prevent injuries to animals during “scramble” competitions, in which young children try to catch rabbits or other small animals to keep as pets.
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Maryland Angus Breeder, Ned Sayre passes
Ned Sayre, 53, of Churchville, MD, passed away on February 21, 2015 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Havre de Grace, MD, he was the son of Lawrason Riggs Sayre and the late Jane Herman Sayre. A lifelong resident of Harford County, he was a 1979 graduate of John Carroll High School and a 1983 graduate of Virginia Tech where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science.
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Now is a critical time for spring calving cows
Mary Hightower
Drovers
Less-than-normal rainfall means slower-growing fescue and some operations will be feeding hay longer this spring – a time when grass grazing is critical for spring-calving cows.
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