– Dr. Jeff Lehmkuhler, Associate Extension Professor, University of Kentucky The many challenges facing the beef industry today sometimes can seem a bit overwhelming. Issues such as lab grown meat, trade negotiations, genomics, antibiotic utilization, sustainability, and so many other issues are thrown into the stone soup of beef production. At some point you have [...]
– John Nalivka, Sterling Marketing (originally published in Drovers CattleNetwork) Over the past few months, I have mentioned where the U.S. cattle inventory may be headed given the level of cow and heifer slaughter this year. I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but with 9 months of the year now behind us, the [...]
– Dr. Les Anderson, Beef Extension Specialist, University of Kentucky It’s weaning time and I hope most of you are planning your herd “preg check”. If you have not incorporated this management practice in the past, please do so this year so that you won’t be feed non-productive females this fall and winter. When it [...]
– Chris Penrose, OSU Extension Educator ANR, Morgan County If fescue is a problem on your farm, now is a great time to get it under control. I think it is good to start off talking about why it is a problem, how did it get to be a problem, are there some redeeming qualities, [...]
In this month’s podcast of Beef AG NEWS Today, show host Duane Rigsby visits with OSU Extension Beef Coordinator John Grimes about selecting, retaining and managing replacement females, and the impact exports are having on profitability.
– Sean Kelly, South Dakota State University Extension With fall grazing upon us, some areas of the Midwest and Central Plains have been blessed with plenty of precipitation this year and other areas are still experiencing drought conditions. Regardless of where your ranch is located, a rancher must be very careful when grazing the fall [...]
– Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Some culling of beef cows occurs in most herds every year. The Beef Audits have generally shown that cull cows, bulls, and cull dairy cows make up about 20% of the beef available for consumption in the United States. About half of this group (or 10% of the beef [...]
– Stephen R. Koontz, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University The USDA NASS released the October Cattle on Feed Report last Friday. Marketings and placements were below the prior year while the end of the month inventory was larger. Marketings during the month of September were 1,719 thousand head and this is [...]
– Mark Sulc, OSU Extension Forage Specialist As cold weather approaches this week, livestock owners need to keep in mind the few forage species that can be extremely toxic soon after a frost. Several species contain compounds called cyanogenic glucosides that are converted quickly to prussic acid (i.e. hydrogen cyanide) in freeze-damaged plant tissues. A [...]
– Steve Boyles, OSU Extension Beef Specialist Nebraska research shows hot carcass weights were lighter from bad uddered cows. Scientists at the University of Nebraska (J. Beard, J. Musgrave, R. Funston and J. Mulliniks) used 812 cows and their udder scores to evaluate calf performance. Udders scores were recorded from a 1 (bad) to 5 [...]
