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Don’t Forget Farm Safety
A recent National Safety Council study ranks beef cattle farms and dairy operations as second and third most dangerous industries among all agriculture enterprises ...
Purdue Experts Help Ranchers Figure Cash Rents
With prices and input costs fluctuating, people need to review their lease arrangements and adjust for the year ahead, says Craig Dobbins, a Purdue University Extension agricultural economist. ...
Looking at the Economics of Livestock Production
Livestock Marketing Information Center data shows that average cow-calf producers are operating with negative returns; however, there are still opportunities ...
Stretch Your Hay Supply
There are several strategies for cattlemen to consider in order to decrease their input costs in these challenging times in the beef industry. ...
What Happens to Family Farms?
The Tennessee Farmland Legacy Conference will open up the floor for families to discuss their farm's future....
Top-10 Winter Checklist
While warm summer temperatures make the challenges of icy, frigid weather seem far away, now is the time to make the preparations that will minimize those...
Pregnancy Diagnosis
Considering the rising cost of feed associated with maintaining a cow through the winter, removing non-pregnant cows from the herd prior to winter would...
Get 'Em GONE
Used to be that keeping and feeding cull cows was a no-brainer: there's lots of compensatory gain to be had with mature cows in their worst condition...
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...
