Forage quality decreases in late July and August can present challenges for the May calving heifer. Photo courtesy of Troy Walz. Karla Jenkins, Nebraska Extension Beef Specialist in Cow/Calf Stocker Management Across the Great Plains the end of summer generally brings hot and dry conditions to the region. Both warm and cool season grasses begin [...]

– John F. Grimes, OSU Extension Beef Coordinator (originally published in the Ohio Farmer on-line) We are entering an exciting time of the year for cow-calf producers. They have started or soon will be weaning their spring-born calves. Weaning is an excellent time to prepare the calf crop to become herd replacements or for future [...]

– Dr. Andrew Griffith, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee FED CATTLE: Fed cattle trade was not well established at press. Asking prices on a live basis were mainly $115 to $116 while bid prices were mainly $109 to $110. The 5-area weighted average prices thru Thursday were $110.10 live, [...]

– Matt Hersom, University of Florida Extension Culling cows from the herd is a normal part of annual ranch management. How and when cull cows are marketed represents your last opportunity to generate revenue from each cow. There is an opportunity to add value to cull cows to generate some additional revenue for a cattle [...]

– Rory Lewandowski, OSU Extension Educator, Wayne County and Mark Sulc, OSU Extension Forage Specialist Seeding alfalfa requires a firm seedbed Ohio growers experienced another wet spring and compressed 2018 spring planting season.  On some farms, this caused postponement of plans for spring seeding of alfalfa and other perennial forages.  In some areas, the prolonged wet [...]

– Dr. Andrew Griffith, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee FED CATTLE: Fed cattle trade was not well established at press. Asking prices on a live basis were mainly $114 to $115 while bid prices were mainly $108 to $111. The 5-area weighted average prices thru Thursday were $113.11 live, [...]

– John F. Grimes, OSU Extension Beef Coordinator What is Beef Quality Assurance (BQA)? BQA is a nationally coordinated, state implemented program that provides systematic information to U.S. beef producers and beef consumers of how common sense husbandry techniques can be coupled with accepted scientific knowledge to raise cattle under optimum management and environmental conditions. [...]

– Erin Laborie, University of Nebraska Extension The overall goal of feed bunk management is to maintain consistency within the feeding system. Photo by Troy Walz, University of Nebraska Extension Proper bunk management is the art of matching feed deliveries to the amount of feed cattle need for optimal performance. Underfeeding cattle results in poor [...]

– Michelle Arnold, DVM (Ruminant Extension Veterinarian, UKVDL) and a special thanks to JD Green, PhD (Extension Professor (Weed Scientist), UK Plant and Soil Sciences Department) Poisonous plants are responsible for considerable losses in livestock although many cases go unrecognized and undiagnosed due to a lack of knowledge of which plants could be responsible and [...]

– David P. Anderson, Professor and Extension Economist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service USDA’s Cattle on Feed report, released July 20th did not include many big surprises, but there were some interesting points. But, first the basics. The number of cattle on feed were reported up 4.1 percent over a year ago, on placements up [...]