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Lot Of Reasons To Be Bullish On The Cattle Market
The recent run-up in prices has been exciting for cattle feeders, stocker operators and cow-calf producers who are contracting calves....
Nebraska Studies Summer Vs. Spring Calving
The greatest nutrient demand of beef cows is during lactation, a time when cows need special consideration in meeting their energy and protein requirements...
Sandhills Calving System Aids In Fighting Scours
Neonatal calf scours is a multifactorial disease, says Dave Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Extension veterinarian. The ideal scenario for an outbreak is to have susceptible hosts ...
Preventing dystocia
When the telephone rings at 2 a.m. in the springtime, I'm pretty sure the caller will be a beef client with a first-calf heifer needing calving assistance....
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...
