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Reducing Antibiotic Use on Your Dairy

Courtesy of bi-vetmedica.com

Reducing antibiotic use is better for the cow, the producer and the consumer. To be more judicious with antibiotic use, start by adjusting treatment protocols for mastitis, an infection responsible for the greatest antibiotic use on… Continue reading →

Posted in Beef News | Tagged cleanliness, consumer, culture, dairy, infection, inflammation, mastitis, milk, prevention, productivity, selective dry cow therapy, treatment

Idaho’s Bovine Bonus

Cattle have a positive economic impact on the Gem State.

According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture conducted by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Idaho had an inventory of more than 2.4 million head of cattle and calves in December… Continue reading →

Posted in Industry News | Tagged cattle, dairy, economy, Idaho, meat, milk, pasture, protein, ranchers, unfit, vegetation

Hay, just how bad is it?

By : Ted Wiseman, and Dean Kreager Extension Educators in Perry and Licking County

Much of Ohio’s 2019 first cutting grass hay was beyond optimum maturity when it was harvested. Laboratory analysis indicates little if any first cutting has… Continue reading →

Posted in Cow/Calf Corner | Tagged body condition, energy, first cutting, gestation, hay, inventory, milk, quality, ration, sample, supply, TDN, testing

MU specialist shares economics of switching from dairy to beef

Writer : Linda Geist, courtesy of extension2.missouriedu.edu

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Consolidation in the dairy industry has University of Missouri Extension helping dairy producers switch to beef.

MU Extension recently sponsored a session for producers at MU’s Southwest Research Center… Continue reading →

Posted in Beef News | Tagged backgrounding, beef, bulk tank, culling rate, dairy, forage, input cost, milk, operation, price, profit margin, seasonal

Knowing hay quality affects supplementation strategy

By : Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist

Cattle producers in many areas of Oklahoma have been fortunate this summer to receive timely rains. Many big round bales of hay have been stored for winter… Continue reading →

Posted in Management | Tagged concentration, energy, forage, gestation, hay, lactation, milk, protein, quality, rumen, supplement, winter

Colostrum Helps Newborn Calves

By: Troy Walz, Nebraska Extension Educator

Colostrum, or first milk produced by the mother after birth, is high in nutrients and antibodies. A newborn calf lacks disease protection because antibodies do not pass across the cow’s placenta to the fetus’… Continue reading →

Posted in Cow/Calf Corner | Tagged antibodies, calf, colostrum, disease, milk, newborn, nutrients, storage