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Vaccination
Immunity & Challenges
BVDv (bovine viral diarrhea virus) often infects cows without signs that the virus is spreading in their body. The virus has the ability to pass through...
Vets Weigh In On Calf Health
Veterinarian John Peirce created a stir among cow-calf readers of BEEF magazine last fall when he chastised the job cowmen were doing in the health preparation...
Is More Really Better?
The person who first uttered those famous words, if a little bit is good, a lot is better, probably didn't have a pistol-grip syringe in his hand. But,...
Risky Business
In the past, about the best any feedyard could do with lightweight, high-risk calves was to treat with an antibiotic, give them a good-luck pat on the...
The brush was too broad
As a full-time rancher, and one who works closely with my veterinarian and vaccine representative, I take issue with the comments by veterinarian John...
Are You Vaccinating Calves Or Shooting Blanks?
Preconditioned cattle usually aren't, says John Peirce, and it doesn't take very long after they arrive at a feedyard to know exactly how much preconditioning...
Health Dollars & Sense
If you've written a check to your friendly local animal health supply house or looked at a closeout sheet on a set of high-risk calves, you know sickness...
Understanding What Vaccine Label Claims Mean
Vaccines are an essential tool for aiding in the prevention and control of infectious diseases in cattle. There are more than 200 vaccines and vaccine combinations...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...


















