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Fitting DDGs into feeding rations
The increasing availability of dried distillers grains (DDGs), a feed-grain by-product resulting from grain conversion into ethanol, begs the question...
USDA Boosts Corn Estimates In Latest Report
Corn Estimates Grow
Drought Zaps Wheat Crop
Ethanol co-products make ideal feed
As ethanol production expands in the Midwest, the availability of ethanol co-products also increases. Ethanol co-products' high protein and energy content...
Summer-Seeded Grains
Barley, oats, triticale or wheat no-tilled into small-grain stubble can extend the fall grazing season, Vance Owens says. These small grains offer very...
More acres into soybeans
USDA's 2006 Prospective Plantings estimates U.S. farmers will plant record soybean acres and fewer corn acres this year. Farmers intend to plant 76.9...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
