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What Goes Into Calculating Yardage?

By : Julie Walker, Professor & SDSU Extension Beef Specialist and Warren Rusche, Courtesy of extension.sdstate.edu

Yardage cost is the non-feed cost per head for every day that an animal is fed harvested feed in some form of confinement. Yardage… Continue reading →

Posted in Feedlot Focus | Tagged budget, capacity, cost, custom, feed, feedlot, insurance, interest, labor, per day, yardage

Use of Guard Llamas in an Integrated Predator Control System

By : Natassaja Boham, Makenzie Doherty, and Jordan Johnson, OSU Animal Science Undergraduate Students and Brady Campbell, Program Coordinator, OSU Sheep Team

In our latest Ag-note, Animal Sciences students Natassaja Boham, Makenzie Doherty, and Jordan Johnson highlight a… Continue reading →

Posted in Management | Tagged calves, cost, defense, guard animal, llama, predator, protection, return on investment, surprise, threat, training

Huvepharma® announces Monovet® medicated feed combination approvals

The first FDA-approved generic monensin – available to U.S. beef, dairy, and goat producers as Monovet^®90 from global animal health company Huvepharma^® – has now also received FDA approval for combination use with other drug feed… Continue reading →

Posted in Company News | Tagged approval, cost, FDA, feed additives, feed efficiency, feedlot, generic, Huvepharma, Monensin, Monovet 90, rumen fermentation, weight gain

Beyond Nutrition: Non-Nutrient Considerations of Byproducts in Cattle Rations

By Cody Schneider, Beef Cattle Nutritionist, Provimi, Cargill Animal Nutrition

Byproducts are nothing new to cattle producers and have become an essential part of cattle raising. Byproducts range from the usual — distillers grains, soybean hulls and corn gluten feed… Continue reading →

Posted in Feedlot Focus | Tagged batch, byproducts, consistency, cost, feed, feedlot, health, nutrition, palatable, performance, quality, ration

TAHC Establishes Bovine Viral Diarrhea Rule

Austin, TX – The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) adopted a rule to mitigate the risk of uninfected cattle being exposed to bovine viral diarrhea virus persistently infected (BVDV-PI) cattle. The rule was passed at the December commission meeting, and… Continue reading →

Posted in Industry News | Tagged bovine viral diarrhea virus, calves, cost, effect, exposure, feedlot, PI, pregnancy, rule, shipping fever, stocker, TAHC, test

NEW CROP, COW-CALF BUDGETS AVAILABLE FOR 2020

Lincoln, Nebraska, Jan. 24, 2020 — Two decision-making tools created by Nebraska Extension for agricultural producers across the state have been updated for the new year.

The 2020 Nebraska crop budgets (https://cropwatch.unl.edu/budgets) and representative cow-calf budgets (… Continue reading →

Posted in Cow/Calf Corner | Tagged budget, cost, cost of production, cow/calf, data, Excel, herd, marketing, PDF, pricing, producers