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Crossbreeding
Crossbreeding remains one of the most effective low-input, high-return management practices a beef-cattle producer can adopt. Effective crossbreeding...
Feeder-calf grades
The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 originally mandated the standards for feeder-calf grades. Changes were made to the grading standards for live feeder...
Ranchers care
Proposition 2, the Standards for Confining Farm Animals initiative statute, is a California ballot proposition that passed in that state's general election...
The verification process
With all that's been written and said about the age- and source-verification process, there's still a lot of confusion. The most common comment is that...
Biosecurity Basics
Biosecurity, biocontainment, biological risk management. To the beef producer, these new buzzwords essentially mean the same thing addressing the possibility...
Weaning management
Weaning time is harvest time in cow-calf country. This can be a stressful time for the cow, the calf and the rancher. Probably the most critical weaning...
Beyond protein & energy
Balancing rations to provide adequate crude protein and energy is usually the first step in herd sustainability. But while these nutrients are the building...
Got protein & energy?
It's no secret that feed costs are a major economic component of producing beef. Efficiency of feed and ration balancing are critical to optimizing profits....
Violative residues
The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....
Body condition scoring
The practice of assigning a body condition score (BCS) to a cow is a great management tool for identifying nutritional needs in a beef cowherd. There's...
Quality beef
All too often, the term quality beef is used within the industry very loosely and rhetorically. It makes us feel good to proclaim U.S. beef is the world's best, but...
EPDs provide genetic insight
The beef cattle industry has been using Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) as a selection tool in improving calf productivity for nearly two decades....
Timing is everything
Most U.S. beef producers manage their livestock around forage-driven production systems. And because beef producers mostly calve in the spring, they wean...
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
