BEEF Cow-Calf Weekly

In spite of the increasing trend to limit the amount of steel between your cows and what they eat, feeding hay in the winter is a reality for many beef producers.

While the markets may be volatile, one point of consistency every fall is that there is a host of alternatives to evaluate when thinking about marketing calves.

Preserving antibiotics for their intended purpose means reducing the need for them. Last of a six-part series.

Ten years ago, only 3.5% of the cattle possessed an electronic tag. That’s now closer to 17%.   Meanwhile, the percentage of animals that possess no ID is half the rate of 10 years ago.

Used in the right situations, both killed and modified-live virus (MLV) vaccines can offer effective disease management. Let cow-calf herd dynamics guide your vaccine choices.

I can only imagine how foreign the view out of this feedlot office window is to our consumers, and the legislators they elect.