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Pasture and Range

Is Rotational Better?

Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Kindra Gordon

Talk with successful ranchers like Gene Goven and they often cite rotational grazing as a key ingredient in their operation's success. He sums up the...

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Drought

Weather Worries and Weather Woes

By Burt Rutherford Senior Editor

It's likely that cattle producers in the Southeast won't look back on 2007 with any fondness. This region, home to about 25% of the nation's cow-calf production, withered under an unrelenting drought last year, and entered '08 desperate for a change...

Wildfire danger HIGH

compiled by BEEF staff

While it's been a year of moisture extremes, some regions that enjoyed high rainfall are facing the prospects of high wildfire danger. Oklahoma, for instance,...

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Grazing Programs

Is Rotational Better?

By Kindra Gordon

Talk with successful ranchers like Gene Goven and they often cite rotational grazing as a key ingredient in their operation's success. He sums up the...

Preventing pasture bloat

by W. Mark Hilton contributing editor

Pasture bloat is primarily a disease of cattle that graze pastures where legumes make up greater than 50% of the total forage. You may hear pasture bloat...

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Jim Gerrish

Fall calving with tall fescue

by Jim Gerrish contributing editor

Spring may not seem the right time to be thinking about the virtues of fall calving, but if you live in the tall-fescue zone of the U.S., you should be...

Five steps to winter savings

by Jim Gerrish contributing editor

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...

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

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...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

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...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

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...

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