– Stan Smith, Fairfield County PA, OSU Extension The Taste of Ohio Cafe’ offers the opportunity for consumers to meet the farmers that grow their food. The free market system will ultimately have a significant voice in how our farm animals are managed . . . the bottom line is that our clientele wants to [...]
There’s still time to enter BEEF and Durango’s “Best Ranch Hands” photo contest.
– Chris Penrose, OSU Extension Educator, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Morgan County (originally published in the Summer issue of the Ohio Cattleman) As I drove around Morgan County in late June and even on my farm, there was still a lot of hay to make. Stems and seed heads on orchardgrass and fescue had turned [...]
– Dr. Roy Burris, Beef Extension Professor, University of Kentucky It was 1974 and I had just started my career as a beef cattle researcher for Mississippi State University. I was part of projects on grazing systems and crossbreeding but was also starting a new project on finishing cattle in south Mississippi. We were in [...]
In this month’s podcast of Beef AGRI NEWS Today, show host Duane Rigsby visits with OSU Extension Beef Coordinator John Grimes about the winding down of breeding season, pregnancy checking, culling considerations, and late summer forage and hay management options.
– Brenda Boetel, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-River Falls Steer and heifer slaughter levels for the year to date have been slightly lower than forecasted, but up almost 2.3% over 2017. Slaughter will continue to have year-over-year increases but the year-over-year increases will be smaller. September slaughter will likely be smaller than [...]
– Mark Landefeld, ANR Educator, Monroe County “You gotta make hay while the sun shines”. How many times have you heard that said throughout the years? We’ve had some sunshine this spring/summer, but making first cutting “dry” hay has really been challenging for most farmers this year. Getting two or more days in a row [...]
– Aerica Bjurstrom, UW-Extension Kewaunee County Water is the most important nutrient an animal requires and consumes daily. Depending on weight, production stage, and environmental temperature, cattle require varying amounts of water. A University of Georgia publication suggests for cattle in 90 °F temperatures, a growing animal or a lactating cow needs two gallons of [...]
– Victor Shelton, NRCS State Agronomist/Grazing Specialist This paddock may look messy, but what looks like a weed is actually a fantastic, highly nutritious native legume, tick foil (Desmodium). I certainly didn’t expect the blessed amount of rain that has fallen on most of Indiana in the last month. In some areas, the amount could [...]
– Dr. Andrew Griffith, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee FED CATTLE: Fed cattle traded $5 to $6 higher than last week on a live basis. Prices on a live basis were mainly $112 to $114 while dressed prices were mainly $175 to $180. The 5-area weighted average prices thru [...]
