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Early Weaning Management
Weaning time is a stressful time for the cow, the calf and the rancher, writes TheCattleSite Junior Editor Charlotte Johnston. It is critical to business success deciding when and where to wean, particularly with last year calf prices plummeting between...
Weaning time is a stressful time for the cow, the calf and the rancher, writes TheCattleSite Junior Editor Charlotte Johnston. It is critical to business success deciding when and where to wean, particularly with last year calf prices plummeting between...
Adapting Livestock Production Systems to Climate Change
Greenhouse gases such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N20) are both primarily increased through agricultural practices such as land clearing, soil degradation, fires and ruminants, Chris Stokes, a Systems Ecologist at the CSIRO...
Greenhouse gases such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N20) are both primarily increased through agricultural practices such as land clearing, soil degradation, fires and ruminants, Chris Stokes, a Systems Ecologist at the CSIRO...
World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates - September 2009
According to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report from the World Agricultural Outlook Board, weak demand for cattle, hogs, turkeys and broilers continues to put prices under pressure. The milk production forecast is raised for 2009...
According to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report from the World Agricultural Outlook Board, weak demand for cattle, hogs, turkeys and broilers continues to put prices under pressure. The milk production forecast is raised for 2009...
Breeding Feed-Efficient Herds: a Near Future Possibility
Feed constitutes approximately 60 per cent of production costs, and with current economic and environmental conditions pushing up feed prices many beef farmers are struggling to keep profit margins. University of Missouri researchers are determining why...
Feed constitutes approximately 60 per cent of production costs, and with current economic and environmental conditions pushing up feed prices many beef farmers are struggling to keep profit margins. University of Missouri researchers are determining why...
Worldwide Impact of Drought on the Cattle Sector
Worldwide droughts are having a serious impacts on global agriculture. TheCattleSite Junior Editor, Charlotte Johnston, looks into what effects drought has had on agricultural systems and economies and the cattle sector in particular.
Worldwide droughts are having a serious impacts on global agriculture. TheCattleSite Junior Editor, Charlotte Johnston, looks into what effects drought has had on agricultural systems and economies and the cattle sector in particular.
Animal Productivity and Genetic Diversity
Possibilities through cloning and transgenic technology have both their strengths and weakness as well as technological limitations, writes TheCattleSite Junior Editor, Charlotte Johnston.
Possibilities through cloning and transgenic technology have both their strengths and weakness as well as technological limitations, writes TheCattleSite Junior Editor, Charlotte Johnston.
What Interest Rate is Your Pasture Paying?
Most pasture plants are in debt this year as the dry conditions and cold spring put most plants behind in their spring "loan payments" to their root systems.
Most pasture plants are in debt this year as the dry conditions and cold spring put most plants behind in their spring "loan payments" to their root systems.
Managing Through a Recession
After several years of favourable hay prices and generous margins, forage producers are facing a 2009 that looks less than rosy, writes Iowa State Extension Economist, William Edwards.
After several years of favourable hay prices and generous margins, forage producers are facing a 2009 that looks less than rosy, writes Iowa State Extension Economist, William Edwards.
Three Steps to Building a Profitable Grazing System
Focussing management efforts on the grazing resource can contribute significantly to improving profitability in beef cow/calf operations, says this Government of Alberta, Agriculture and Rural Development report.
Focussing management efforts on the grazing resource can contribute significantly to improving profitability in beef cow/calf operations, says this Government of Alberta, Agriculture and Rural Development report.
Four Points for Beef Producers to Consider
Four things beef producers might want to think about are food safety, seamless regionalized calf-to-feedlot health connectivity, implementation of improved RFID (radio frequency identification) technology and value capture for the producer, writes Kris...
Four things beef producers might want to think about are food safety, seamless regionalized calf-to-feedlot health connectivity, implementation of improved RFID (radio frequency identification) technology and value capture for the producer, writes Kris...
Beef Quality Assurance: The Future of Beef Marketing
What is Beef Quality Assurance or BQA? It is a national programme that provides guidelines for beef cattle production in the US, explains Joi Saville, beef extension associate at Virginia Tech Cooperative Extension.
What is Beef Quality Assurance or BQA? It is a national programme that provides guidelines for beef cattle production in the US, explains Joi Saville, beef extension associate at Virginia Tech Cooperative Extension.
Canadian Cattle Statistics August 2009
Canadian cattle producers estimated their herd at 14.8 million head as of July 1, the fourth consecutive yearly decline. By Statistics Canada.
Canadian cattle producers estimated their herd at 14.8 million head as of July 1, the fourth consecutive yearly decline. By Statistics Canada.
Understanding the Ruminant Animal's Digestive System
Ruminant livestock have a unique digestive system that allows them to use energy from fibrous plant material better than other herbivores, write Dr Jane A. Parish, Dr J. Daniel Rivera and Dr Holly T. Boland in this Mississippi State University Extension...
Ruminant livestock have a unique digestive system that allows them to use energy from fibrous plant material better than other herbivores, write Dr Jane A. Parish, Dr J. Daniel Rivera and Dr Holly T. Boland in this Mississippi State University Extension...
US Beef and Dairy Outlook Report
Declining dairy cow inventories, no growth in dairy replacement heifer inventories, and beef heifer inventories that are declining more rapidly than beef cow inventories imply continuing liquidation of the national cow herd, according to the USDA ERS...
Declining dairy cow inventories, no growth in dairy replacement heifer inventories, and beef heifer inventories that are declining more rapidly than beef cow inventories imply continuing liquidation of the national cow herd, according to the USDA ERS...
BeefTalk: 2009 Production Benchmarks Are In
In reality, the need is to grow profitable cattle that a producer can appreciate and still meet industry needs, Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, North Dakota State University Extension Service.
In reality, the need is to grow profitable cattle that a producer can appreciate and still meet industry needs, Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, North Dakota State University Extension Service.
