BeefTalk: Add Value to Market Cows and Bulls

BeefTalk: Add Value to Market Cows and Bulls

Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension

Preparing market cows and bulls is a timeless function of beef operations.

Individual producer goals determine how many cows will remain in the herd and how many will shift to the market column. The resulting two numbers – market cow rate and replacement rate – impact the base cow herd. Managers match cattle numbers to given resources. The numbers are the foundation to expanding and/or contracting herd numbers.

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Boost Animal Performance When Forages are Stressed

Boost Animal Performance When Forages are Stressed

Becky Mills
DTN

“Research suggests ionophores improve animal performance in a grazing situation or feedlot,” says Auburn University Extension animal scientist Kim Mullenix. “A rule of thumb is they improve gain 10%, almost the same as the increase from implants.”

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Overcoming a mycotoxin nightmare

Overcoming a mycotoxin nightmare

Neil Michael

Progressive Cattleman

It was a cowboy’s worst nightmare. Pen after pen of lethargic cattle. Feed intake down by 50 percent. Skyrocketing pulls. Even heavy 1,300-pound cattle heading to the hospital pen in higher-than-normal numbers.

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Does beef demand impact you?

Does beef demand impact you?

Beef Magazine

I got a call recently from a reader who had several concerns. Space doesn’t allow me to address all of them, but let’s look at a couple. He wondered why good beef demand both here and abroad hasn’t translated into better prices at the ranch level. On the other hand, I’ve been amazed that prices have stayed robust this year. So I did some checking and found some interesting numbers.

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Managing millennials in agriculture

Managing millennials in agriculture

Chris Zoller

Farm and Dairy

This is considered to be the most energetic, educated and diverse generation — one that is also technology savvy and conscious of social issues. Members of this generation have been influenced by terrorist attacks, school shootings, and the emergence of the internet. Approximately one-third of the U.S. workforce is made up of millennials and it’s estimated they will comprise nearly one-half of the workforce by 2020.

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Tyson Fresh Meats Changes Choice Plus Grid

Tyson Fresh Meats Changes Choice Plus Grid

Gary Fike

Red Angus News

Effective Oct. 1, 2018, Tyson Fresh Meats has altered the Choice Plus Grid to reflect a pricing change brought about by a shift in the industry towards more Choice beef, which has raised the bar for quality. In effect, Choice is not as “special” as it once was 10 years ago.

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Man in Oklahoma Surrenders on Cattle Embezzlement Charges

Man in Oklahoma Surrenders on Cattle Embezzlement Charges

Wyatt Bechtel

Drovers

A man in Oklahoma surrendered to police on six counts of embezzlement following an investigation by a Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) special ranger. Johnny Ray Simmons, 52, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, surrendered to Harper County authorities on Sept. 12 and was booked in the Harper County Jail.

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