Cattle Corner Tips
Here's this months Cattle Corner Tips! As your calves grow, their nutritional needs change. Making sure they get the right fuel is essential for their development and your bottom line. One strategy that can make...
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Nutrition is Important Part of Good Herd Health Program
Do you equate a good herd-health program only with a vaccination and/or deworming program? While these are important, they aren’t the only considerations, says Christine B. Navarre, Extension Veterinarian, with Louisiana State university. Dr. Navarre...
Quick Tips: Weaning Management
Quick Tips: Weaning Management. A calf's diet and surroundings change dramatically at weaning and if you don't closely manage this life stage, the value of your calves can be reduced. Calves can become sick and...
Extreme Weather Conditions and Reduced Production May Affect Hay Quality, Availability and Price
Extreme Weather Conditions and Reduced Production May Affect Hay Quality, Availability and Price! Unfavorable weather conditions last fall and winter, 2011, meant more hay was fed than normal causing last year’s hay supplies to...
Hay Testing Leads to More Efficient Feeding
Hay testing leas to more efficient feeding! An inexpensive hay test can offer the best guidance as to how much supplemental feed is required for a beef cattle herd, and at the same time, save...