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Feed Composition Tables
Pros and cons of distillers grains
University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists reviewed nine studies regarding distillers byproducts in the beef cattle feeding industry. The ethanol industry...
Playing The Hand
As a cattle feeder, observes Alan Janzen, I have to look at what I'm faced with; what is the practical issue here? It's always been thus in a business...
Ins And Outs Of Byproducts
The search for renewable fuels has spurred revolutionary growth in biodiesel and ethanol production. As a result, the beef industry is scrambling to fill...
2008 Feed Composition Tables
Typical Composition Of Feeds For Cattle And Sheep: Annual compilation of values for more than 250 feedstuffs...
2007 Feed Composition
Nutrition research spanning more than 100 years has defined the nutrients required by animals. Using this information...
Subbing On Supplement
In the life of a first-calf heifer, there are very few things you can be sure of. You can, however, count on this - it isn't easy...
Steamed By Flaking
Cattle feeders can use futures and options to against high or low corn, feeder cattle or fed-cattle markets. But when costs increase dramatically on the...
Making Hay Without It
The drought in 1998 was the first time in recent years we faced a crisis like this year, where you have very limited forage standing forage or hay and...
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...
