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Feeding Down Under
The Aussies are making hay while the sun shines. With the U.S. facing a long-term challenge in recovering its Japanese and Korean beef market share, Australian...
Build Cattle Value In Steps
Mass Medication -- Metaphylaxis Rules Of Thumb
After A Good Start, 2006 Looks Tough For Feedlots
Why Do Feedlot Cattle Die?
Most who work in the cattle feeding industry have a good feeling for their cattle's major health problems. It's based on experience, however, and there...
Coming up for Air
Manure decomposition in a natural setting was, in days gone by, primarily an aerobic process. Today, we stockpile animal waste in such depth and quantity...
Energy Reworks The High Plains
Many farmers, who for years have serviced feedyards and other operations with grain and silage, are more interested these days in crops that yield fodder...
Tough TALK
How are you at handling things in your feedyard when the going gets tough? To find out, imagine how you'd respond to these three, real-world challenges....
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...
