Beef producers say Obama is trying to kill their industry

Beef producers say Obama is trying to kill their industry

FoxNews.com

Lawmakers from cattle producing states are seeing red following a 571-page federal report that that encourages Americans to go green. A panel of nutrition experts recruited by the Obama administration to craft the newest dietary guidelines suggested last week that the government should consider the environment when deciding what people should eat.

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Pregnant Cow Still Cycling

Pregnant Cow Still Cycling

Dr. Ken McMillan

DTN/The Progressive Farmer

If a cow has been diagnosed as pregnant and shows heat, never assume she is open until she has been rechecked.

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Spring Calving: Prepare Today for Tomorrow’s New Addition

Spring Calving: Prepare Today for Tomorrow’s New Addition

AgWeb

When warmer temperatures set in and winter starts to melt away, cattle producers across the country will be keeping one eye on the pasture and one eye on their next biggest investment—their calves.

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Re-warming methods for severely cold-stressed newborn calves

Re-warming methods for severely cold-stressed newborn calves

Robert Bourne

Durant Democrat

According to Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist, Canadian animal scientists compared methods of reviving hypothermic or cold stressed baby calves. Heat production and rectal temperature were measured in 19 newborn calves during hypothermia (cold stress) and recovery when four different means of assistance were provided.

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Veterinarians develop website to help producers manage disease

Veterinarians develop website to help producers manage disease

The Western Producer

A group of American and Canadian veterinarians has developed a web based program called Trich Consult to help producers learn more about this devastating disease in breeding cattle.  The overall infection rate of trichomoniasis is probably seven to eight percent, but the prevalence is variable across regions, said veterinarian Bob Larson of Kansas State University.

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USMEF Statement on West Coast Port Labor Contract Agreement

USMEF Statement on West Coast Port Labor Contract Agreement

noodls

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) was very pleased to learn of the tentative agreement on a new West Coast port labor contract that was reached Friday evening.

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Ward Named Interim Hereford Executive Vice President

Ward Named Interim Hereford Executive Vice President

Hereford.org

Jack Ward has been named interim Executive Vice President of the American Hereford Association (AHA). Eric Walker, AHA president, announced the appointment following the resignation of Craig Huffhines.

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Cow herd expansion requires creative thinking

Cow herd expansion requires creative thinking

Ken Anderson

Brownfield Network

Cattle industry analysts say one of the factors that could slow expansion of the nation’s cow herd is pasture availability. Seth Watkins, a cow-calf farmer from near Clarinda in southwest Iowa says it’s probably going to take some “outside-of-the-box” thinking for him to expand his herd.

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Swollen U.S. meat inventories mirror strong demand headwinds

Swollen U.S. meat inventories mirror strong demand headwinds

Theopolis Waters

Drovers

Slumping demand for meat on the U.S. West and East Coasts boosted pork, beef and chicken inventories to some of their highest levels in years, analysts said following Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly cold storage report.

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Beef Versus Pork: A Big Divergence

Beef Versus Pork: A Big Divergence

Andrew Hecht

Seeking Alpha

Commodity markets are among the most volatile of all assets that trade on futures exchanges. When it comes to volatility, animal protein markets move on supply and demand factors. The wide price ranges in these markets attract speculative interest at times. Over this past year both cattle and hog futures have been moving.

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Baxter Black, DVM:Headline Oddities

Baxter Black, DVM:Headline Oddities

“WHOLE FOODS SALE OF RABBIT MEAT SPARKS PROTEST!”

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Focus on Fertility: The Bull Side of the Equation

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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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