– Stephen Boyles, OSU Extension Beef Specialist Feeding hay to cattle is expensive. Hay costs between $0.02 and $0.07 per pound of dry matter; usually more than double the cost for the same amount of nutrients from pasture. Hay is expensive because (1) it requires a large investment in equipment, (2) it requires labor to [...]
– Michelle Arnold, DVM, Ruminant Extension Veterinarian, UKVDL Record rainfall in 2018 has had major impacts on cattle health in KY. Despite relatively mild temperatures this winter, submissions at the UKVDL and telephone conversations with veterinarians and producers confirm cattle are losing body condition and some are dying of malnutrition. The very prolonged cloudy, wet [...]
– John F. Grimes, OSU Extension Beef Coordinator The OSU Extension Beef Team will be hosting the 2019 Ohio Beef Cattle School. The School will be held on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 starting at 7:00 p.m. As in year’s past with the Beef School, county or area Extension offices will serve as hosts for local [...]
– Victor Shelton, NRCS State Agronomist/Grazing Specialist Extreme frost-heaving of the soil. (Photo: NRCS Victor Shelton) It is 45 degrees outside today as I write this article. I normally appreciate mild winter weather, but when it rains, and temperatures remain above freezing, except for a frivolous teasing of heavy frosts, a pasture can get pretty [...]
– Brenda Boetel, Professor and Extension Economist, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-River Falls Last week appeared to bring no movement toward a resolution regarding the partial government shutdown. As such, several reports were not available, including the World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates, Quarterly Grain Stocks, Winter Wheat and Canola Seedings and weekly [...]
Ed Czerwien, market analyst based in Amarillo, Texas, offers a concise summary of how last week's beef trade impacted the cattle market and beef prices.
In this month’s podcast of Beef AG NEWS Today, show host Duane Rigsby visits with OSU Extension Beef Coordinator John Grimes about the weather related stress cows have been under, and addressing the resulting nutritional concerns. That conversation evolves into a preview of the 2019 Ohio Beef School being hosted in several Ohio counties on [...]
– Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension A major winter storm this past week extended in a belt across the middle of the country from Denver east to the mid-Atlantic coast. Heavy snow hit parts of feedlot country across eastern Colorado, Kansas, southeastern Nebraska, southern Iowa and the eastern Corn Belt. Much of Nebraska and [...]
– Dr. Jeff Lehmkuhler, Associate Extension Professor, University of Kentucky Steps: Determine hay needs – Hay needed to overwinter a cow can be estimated relatively easily. If you know the mature weights of your cows, multiply the average weight by 3% and then by the expected number of days you will feed hay. For example, [...]
– Stephen R. Koontz, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University We start the New Year with the federal government 17 days (as of this writing on January 7) into the shutdown. So far, not much appears to be missed in terms of publicly available market information. My regular consumption of AMS reports [...]
