Livestock Management - Cattle
- 14%, 20%, 40% Range Cubes: What’s Right for My Herd?
- A Beef Animal’s Productive Life Gets a Boost From Reduced Stress
- A Defense Against Livestock Pests
- A Shorter Calving Season May Bring Improved Breeding Stock and Better Calves
- A Strategic Approach to Reducing Internal Parasites
- Before Breeding Begins
- Boost Stressed Stocker Cattle
- Brand Your Cattle
- Breaking Down Immunostimulants
- Connecting the Dots to Improve Beef Quality
- Consider a Breeding Soundness Exam for Your Heifers
- Creating Good Energy in the Chute
- Decoding Expected Progeny Differences
- Dollars and Sense – Calf Implant Economics
- Feeding Them Right – Nutrients for Stocker Cattle
- Fly Geography as a Fly Defense
- Getting Insecticide Applications Right
- Grazing Gains – ROI from Implants in Cattle on Pasture
- Health Equals Wealth in Stocker Cattle
- Healthy Cows, Clean Pastures Equal Healthy Calves
- How Can I Get a Better Price for My 5, 10, 20 Calves?
- How To Recognize Heat Stress in Cattle
- Injectable Minerals Enhance Stocker Calf Health
- Keep an Eye on the Eyes of Your Cattle
- Keys to a Better Calving Season
- Managing Bulls in the Offseason
- Navigating Replacement Females
- Once and Done With Fly Tags
- One Nasty Bug – Bovine Coronavirus
- Preconditioned Calves Make Better Stockers
- Prepare Stocker Cattle for Success
- Pre-wean Vaccination Profitability
- Quality Quantified
- Record Twin Births in the Herd
- Reproductive Disease Prevention
- Spring Cleaning Facilities Leads to Better Fly Control
- Stave off Cattle Bacterial Diseases With Whole-Herd Vaccinations
- Stocker Cattle and Quail: A Workable Relationship
- Ten Design Tips for Safer Cattle Pens
- The Bacteria Battle Plan
- That Bright Sunny Day May Stress Your Beef Cattle Herd
- The Right Way | The Value of Proper Injection Sites
- The Unwelcome Guest – Parasites
- Tips to Create Your Herd Health Calendar
- Treat, Call or Haul?
- What to Do With Extra Forage
- What to Do With That Wandering Bull
- With Worms, It Pays to Have a Plan
- Write a Job Description for Your Cows
Series:
Beef Cattle Production:
- Part 1 | Beef Cattle Health (flipbook)
- Part 2 | Breeding Herd Management (flipbook)
- Part 3 | Weaned Calf/Stocker Cattle Mgmt. (flipbook)
- Part 4 | Breeding Season Management (flipbook)
- Part 5 | Cow/Calf Management (flipbook)
- Part 6 | Implants, Weaning, Supplements (flipbook)
- Part 7 | Nutrition, Cow Condition (flipbook)
- Part 8 | Cow Nutrition in Cold, Cow/Bull Production (flipbook)
- Part 9 | Veterinary Feed Directive, Better Calving Season (flipbook)
- Part 10 | Calf Implants, Pre-Weaning Vaccination & Before Breeding Begins (flipbook)
Genetics:
Stocker Cattle Management:
- Cash vs Accrual Accounting
- Give Stocker Cattle a Good Background
- The Human Component
- How Sorting and Commingling Affects Stocker Costs
- Implants
- Managing Outliers in Stocker Herds
- Market Changes Bring Opportunity
- Native or Introduced Grass
- Preconditioning
- Protect or Redirect
- The Right Health Plan Means the Right Start
- Stale vs. Fresh Cattle
Veterinary Feed Directive:
- 3 Things You Should Be Doing Now
- Establishing a Veterinary-Client-Patient Relationship
- Expiration vs. Duration of Use
- Extra-Label Use Is Prohibited
- Labels
- Producer Paperwork
- Producer Recordkeeping
- What Is the Veterinary Feed Directive Rule?
- What Producers Need to Know
- Rules: What They Are Not
- Veterinary Feed Directive — How’s It Working?
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Your Veterinarian Is an Important Part of VFD Rule
Downloadable PDF Files:
- Beef Cuts
- Biosecurity
- Bovine Tuberculosis
- Bulls vs. A.I.
- Common Cattle Management Terms
- Enhancing Reproductive Efficiency
- Fetal Programming
- Fever Ticks- Ticking Away at Ticks
- Health Management Programs: Integrating Biological and Management Principles
- Herd Health Planning: A 9-Step Process
- The Horn Fly
- Making the Diagnosis
- Nutrition
- Using Body Condition Scores in Beef Cattle
