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Nutritional supplements
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica offers Bovikalc calcium boluses and Diaque nutritional supplement for calves. Bovikalc is an oral nutritional supplement...
Supplementing cows on crop residues
As long as cows have grain to select in a cornstalk field, the diet is probably above 8-9.5% crude protein (CP) and as high as 70% total digestible nutrients...
2006 Feed Composition Tables
Nutrition research spanning more than a century has defined the nutrients required by animals. With such data, diets can be formulated to meet these requirements...
Nutritional content of crop residue
With corn, sorghum and soybean harvest completed, it's time to garner extra value by grazing cattle on crop residues. Here are some nutrient pointers...
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...
