Mark Parker: The Top 10 suggestions for lying about wheat yields
FarmTalk
10. Always refer to a field not located along a road.
Mark Parker: The Top 10 suggestions for lying about wheat yields
FarmTalk
10. Always refer to a field not located along a road.
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You’re Doing It Wrong
Katrina Huffstutler
Feedlot Magazine
Every year, stocker operators get injured during routine cattle working. But all too often, these costly and painful events could be prevented. Dr. Ron Gill, professor and Extension livestock specialist for Texas AgriLife Extension and nationally renowned low-stress cattle handling expert, says by avoiding four common practices, cattlemen and women can improve their odds of staying injury-free.
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Preconditioning for Profit
Greg Henderson
Drovers
Improving the genetics of your cowherd, monitoring their level of nutrition and managing them through calving season are all critical to your success. Preconditioning your calves, however, might provide the greatest dollar return to your time and management.
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Making the Most of Your Feedstuffs
Doug Medlock
Angus Talk
The things that we need to realize right now: our cows and calves have a dramatic increase in the demands on their body, so their milk production goes up to feed that calf, the nutrition intake goes up – but we never get that intake quite as high as milk production. That’s called a negative energy balance. So what happens is that after these cows calve they have a negative energy balance, so they lose body condition.
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Search for The Perfect Affordable Ration
Boyd Kidwell
Progressive Farmer
E. B. Harris is a veteran in the stocker business. For more than 40 years, the Warrenton, North Carolina, producer has backgrounded calves from his own cow herd, plus 100 additional 350- to 400-pound calves from sale barns and local producers. He’s learned a thing or two in the process.
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Finger millet shows promise as cattle feed
Dennis O’Brien
Progressive Forage
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are trying to save water in one of the fastest growing dairy regions in the U.S. They hope to encourage dairy producers to use a drought-tolerant crop the same way it’s sometimes used in India – as cattle feed.
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To Bale or Not to Bale? To Clip or Not to Clip? Here Are Some Answers
Victor Shelton
On Pasture
Let’s ponder two questions with this article: “To bale or not bale?” and “Should I put up hay or just buy what I need?” I think everyone, no matter how efficient or the type of grazing system, should have some hay on hand. It is your insurance plan; one of your contingency plans. Feeding less hay is a good thing though, at least it should be – meaning that you are hopefully grazing more.
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Adding value to 2016 calves
Derrell S. Peel
Drovers
A variety of production and marketing practices are available to help cow-calf producers enhance calf values. Though these practices are not new, many are still adopted by only a small percentage of producers. The following summarizes several surveys and feeder cattle pricing studies.
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Calf crop depends on bull management in breeding season
Clay Wright
The Samuel Robert Noble Foundation
Assuming your bulls have passed a breeding soundness examination within the last 60 days, are carrying adequate condition (body condition score of 6 or higher), are structurally sound, and have been immunized and treated for parasites, they probably are ready to go to work. Your bulls may already be out earning their keep in your spring-calving herd.
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Bovine TB – It takes a community
Phil Durst, and James DeDecker
Michigan State University
As sure as the fact that apples draw deer, is the reality that, in general, farmers are independent people. They have acquired skills that enable them to do a great many things on the farm, both in production and maintaining various aspects of the business.
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