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Trouble-Shooting Reproductive Failure
Get'em comfortable
The fall calf run is in full swing. Calves are being weaned, sold and shipped to the feedyards. Stress on these animals include not only these aforementioned...
Watch for lameness
As we wean calves and move them to feeding facilities, nothing's more frustrating than dodging respiratory disease only to lose a calf to an unresolved...
Beating Health Bills
There are three good reasons why ranchers pay the high cost of health insurance to get good medical care if sick or injured, avoid ruinous medical bills,...
Evaluating the evidence
Last October, we talked about wizards and being critical consumers of data presented to support the adoption of a new practice or product (October BEEF,...
100% healthy calves in 2006
When I was growing up on our family farm, my father would have been embarrassed if the telephone rang during working hours and he was in the house. In...
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...
