Alternative Enterprises: Backgrounding Feeder Cattle
Interested in making some more money this winter? Want to use up immature or wet shelled corn? Got an empty building? If so, consider backgrounding feeder cattle. Zen Miller and Bill Halfman from the University of Wisconnsin discuss factors that need...

Cow-Calf Profitability
One does not have to spend a great deal of effort in reviewing 2008 beef cattle receipts or production expenses to recognize the direction of cow-calf net returns, writes Mark A. McCann, Ph.D., Animal & Poultry Sciences, Virginia Cooperative Extension...

Time to Double Check Your Heifer Development Programme
The first part of January is an extremely important "check-point" in spring heifer development programmes, writes Dr. Les Anderson, Beef Extension Specialist, University of Kentucky. This article was published in the Ohio State University Extension Beef...

The Cow-Calf Manager Livestock Update, April 2008
By Dr. John B. Hall, Extension Beef Specialist, VA Tech. Livestock Update, April 2008.

The Cow-Calf Manager Livestock Update, March 2008
By Dr. John B. Hall, Extension Beef Specialist, VA Tech. Livestock Update, February 2008.

Livestock Update, July 2007 - The Cow-Calf Manager
By Dr. John B. Hall Extension Beef Cattle Specialist, VA Tech

Effects of Shipping and Heat Stress on Embryonic Mortality in Cattle
By Sarah Fields, Graduate Research Assistant in Beef Reproduction, and Dr. George Perry, Beef Reproduction and Management Specialist, SDSU Animal and Range Sciences Department

Assisting the Beef Cow at Calving Time
By Jack C. Whittier, Department of Animal Sciences, James G. Thorne, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri Extension. Six to 10 percent of all calves born in beef cow herds in the U.S. die at or soon after birth.

Cow/Calf Operations and Greenhouse Gases.
By N. Lee Pengilly, Alberta Agriculture and Food. Gratefully aknowledged in the assistance of the production of this book are Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Alberta Environment, Western Forage and Beef Group, Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, The Greenhouse...

BeefTalk: Precalving Should Mean Contented Cows
By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service - The winter blues are behind us as we witness a taste of spring. Along the way, spring brings renewed energy and the desire to get ready for another year.

Livestock Risk Protection: Insuring Calves
By Matthew A. Diersen, Extension risk and business management specialist - Historically high cash prices for calves, general price volatility, and concern that prices may move lower may lead producers to insure calf prices.

BeefTalk: Most Cow-calf Producers Are Animal-feeding Operations
By Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service. Change, a force that all beef producers, and essentially all those who are caretakers of animals, will need to be prepared to face, is present. A major focus of change is the concept of animal-feeding...