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Cattle Can Use Snow As A Water Source
The Positives of Pooling
Kentucky is the largest cow-calf producing state east of the Mississippi River. Despite boasting 1.1 million beef cows, Kentucky's average herd size is...
Big Changes In The Bull, Female Replacement Markets
There's been a lot of talk about price-structure changes in the feeder, fed and even wholesale beef markets. So it's probably not surprising...
Number of Livestock Operations by State (Based on the 2002 Census of Agriculture)
State Livestock AL 35,336 AK 307 AZ 5,163 AR 37,417 CA 32,340 CO 22,909 CT 2,506 DE 1,541 FL 28,062 GA 35,349 HI 1,335 ID 18,687 IL 30,011 IN 34,758 IA...
Breeding Herd ID
Last month, both the U.S. Animal Health Association (USAHA) and the National Assembly of State Livestock Health Officials approved a recommendation that...
Gotcha!
Folks still chuckle over the old story about the rancher showing his unwitting banker the same set of cows repeatedly moved from one location to another...
How Milk Production Impacts Nutrient Needs
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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...






















