A.I. Is Important Tool for Breeding Success
Bill Pendergrass
Cattle Today
The value of artificial insemination (AI) has been documented time after time. Regardless of your operation’s breeding program and marketing goals, AI is the most important tool to help you achieve success.
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Mark Parker: The Top 10 — aw heck, make it 11 — things your new pup drags into the yard
FarmTalk
11. Enough deer bones to erect an entire skeleton.
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Biology vs. psychology – and three schools of cattle handling
Billy Whitehurst
Progressive Cattleman
As groupies form around one idolized stockman or another, I hear some say that anyone who invokes the concept of predator-prey relationships instead of stockman-stock relationship just doesn’t “get it.”
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Brangus announces i50KTM test availability
Southern Livestock
Thanks to a collaboration with the International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA), the i50K™ genomic test from Zoetis is now available to Brangus breeders and commercial producers using registered Brangus genetics. i50KTM results enable Genomic Enhanced Expected Progeny Differences (GE-EPDs), with notable in-creases in accuracy for the full scope of traits evaluated in Brangus bulls and females.
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Search begins for next head of UNL Animal Science Department
The Cattle Business Weekly
A committee appointed by Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Harlan Vice Chancellor Ronnie Green has begun the search process to recruit and select candidates for a new head of the Animal Science Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Lessons From Thomas Jefferson’s Farm
Forrest Pritchard
On Pasture
On July 3rd, 2012, my family and I visited Jefferson’s home and farm, Monticello, a scenic two hour drive from my farm. Here’s a short photo essay that adds 21st century insight to 18th century Jeffersonian wisdom.
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How ranchers and farmers adopt new forage ideas
George Russell
Progressive Forage Grower
What do you think about new ideas to grow and sell high-quality forage? Do you like to have new things soon after they are available? Or do you wait until a new concept is well proven and tested before you adopt it?
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Genetic toolbox
John Maday
Drovers
As bull-sale season begins, NCBA webinar focuses on genetic selection, highlighting an old tool; crossbreeding, and a newer tool; genomic testing.
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US Beef Exports to Japan Showing Improvement
The Cattle Site
Now that we have the latest export numbers the question remains— what do they really tell us? As with most things, context matters. USDA does an excellent job each month to provide the market with this context in the form of the WASDE report (for those new to it, just google USDA WASDE).
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Preventing Enterotoxemia in Young Calves
Heather Smith Thomas
Angus Beef Bulletin Extra
“The best way to prevent acute toxic gut infections in young calves caused by Clostridium perfringens is to vaccinate the dam,” says Robert Callan, chief of staff at the large animal hospital at the Colorado State University (CSU) James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
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