Mark Parker: The Top 10 reasons to keep that cow one more year
FarmTalk
#10. To cull her, you’d have to catch her first.
#9. She was your dad’s first 4-H project.
Mark Parker: The Top 10 reasons to keep that cow one more year
FarmTalk
#10. To cull her, you’d have to catch her first.
#9. She was your dad’s first 4-H project.
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Nutrients lost: Hay versus grazing
Woody Lane
Progressive Forage
Here’s a question I hear a lot: How much soil fertility does grazing remove from pastures compared to hay? To ask this another way: If I graze a flock of sheep on the field and then sell the lambs, do those lambs and ewes remove as many soil nutrients as when I make hay or balage from that field?
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First Female Manager Takes Over Oklahoma National Stockyards
Clayton Cummings
News 9
For over a century, men have served as the general manager of the Oklahoma National Stockyards. This year, that came to an end. Kelli Payne, 43, became the Stockyards’ first female general manager in its 109-year history. Payne took leadership in April. “They’ve known me since I was a little kid and they know I am not afraid to work,” said Payne. “You clean a lot of tanks, you scrape a lot of manure out of the pens, it all just pays off.”
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What can your veterinarian do for your reproductive management program?
Jordan Thomas, Rachael Bonacker
Progressive Cattle
As a producer, a veterinarian is someone you can call to help with emergency situations and yearly herd health decisions like vaccinations and parasite control. But with years of school and training, he or she can do much more, especially in the field of reproduction. From heifer development to pregnancy diagnosis, a veterinarian can provide reproductive services to your operation that will likely yield you a higher profit margin.
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Fear and Volatility Rule
Cassie Fish
Beef Read
The global, tit-for-tat trade war continues to escalate and sent all agricultural and equity markets sharply lower early today. In the modern day of computer-generated orders and momentum trading it is the perfect environment to incite panic and abandon reason. At least for a while.
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Progress in Johne’s Disease Vaccine
Jan Suszkiw
Angus Beef Bulletin
A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists is investigating a new “ingredient” for use in vaccinating cattle against Johne’s disease, a chronic wasting affliction that costs the U.S. dairy industry more than $200 million per year.
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Proper Vaccine Storage Is Critical To Disease Protection
Glenn Selk
Drovers
Producers cannot afford to overlook the importance of how they store vaccine and handle it prior to injection. ( OCA )
Each year cow calf producers spend thousands of dollars for vaccine products to immunize calves, replacement heifers, and adult cows and bulls.
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