– David P. Anderson, Professor and Extension Economist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Steer slaughter has begun to ramp up, seasonally, over the last month. Slaughter is up about 9 percent from mid-March to mid-April. The almost 30,000 head per week increase is relatively close to the increase in slaughter seen over the last five [...]
– John F. Grimes, OSU Extension Beef Coordinator, retired I have had the pleasure of writing articles regularly since 2011 for this publication and the Ohio Cattleman magazine. Over the years, I have written about several wide-ranging beef management topics and timely industry issues including a few “editorials” along the way. I hope you have [...]
– Chris Penrose, OSU Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Morgan County (originally published in the Ohio Cattleman, Expo issue) This exhibits what seemed to be the rule rather than the exception last winter. Photo: Landefeld For those with pastured livestock, this past winter is one we would like to forget, but damage done is [...]
– Jason Hartschuh, OSU Extension Crawford Country, Agricultural and Natural Resources Educator Wheat fields are finally turning green, as we do stand evaluations (https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2019-07/estimating-wheat-yield-stem-counts) many producers are weighing poor stands versus their need for livestock bedding. As you weigh your options be sure to consider alternative agronomic crop fodder or cover crops as a bedding [...]
– Rory Lewandowski, OSU Extension Educator, Wayne County Acquiring a representative manure sample is the first step to effectively utilizing manure as a source of soil nutrients. Applying livestock manure based on nutrient content is one factor involved in using manure more effectively. There are two main challenges to sampling manure for a nutrient analysis; [...]
– Stephen R. Koontz, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics – Colorado State University Now, that was a Cattle on Feed report. Close to record high inventories with strong placements. One week to think about it and then the futures market reacted hard. Cattle on feed inventories were 11.964 million head as of April 1, [...]
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– Stan Smith, OSU Extension PA, Fairfield County If there was ever a year to focus on hay quality over quantity, weather permitting, this has to be it! Most of the reasons should be obvious. Perhaps a few are less so. However, with some aggressive planning and a little cooperation from Mother Nature, perhaps we [...]
– Mark Sulc, OSU Extension Forage Specialist This month provides one of the two preferred times to seed perennial cool-season forages, the other being late summer. Two primary difficulties with spring plantings are finding a good window of opportunity when soils are dry enough before it gets too late and managing weed infestations that are [...]
– Mark Sulc, OSU Extension Forage Specialist Reports from around the state suggest we have many injured forage stands. I’ve been hearing more reports from around the state of winter injured forage stands, especially in alfalfa. The saturated soil during much of the winter took its toll, with winter heaving being quite severe in many [...]
