Calves born early in the calving season have more value
Calves born early in the calving season provide several advantages for beef cow-calf operations.
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Composting mortalities to improve biosecurity
Do you have a plan and the necessary materials to dispose of the carcass quickly and efficiently to reduce risk to your flock and neighboring flocks?
Warm season grass forage option
Forage crabgrass emerges quickly and is ready for grazing at four to six inches tall in approximately 40 days.
Biosecurity for bringing home new sheep and goats
Biosecurity steps must be in place before the animals arrive to ensure the health of the new and existing herd or flock members and livestock owners.
Beef & Dairy Cattle Gestation and Calving Date Calculator
This Beef & Dairy Cattle Gestation and Calving Date Calculator is intended to help producers quickly determine gestation length and expected calving dates for Artificial Insemination (AI) and natural service breeding.
Resources for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Cattle
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is an emerging issue that poses a significant threat to the health and well-being of dairy herds.
Target Age and Weight When Breeding Beef Heifers
To maintain its size, a beef herd’s annual replacement rate typically equals the number of cows that exit annually due to death, marketing, or culling. A typical replacement rate of 15% has been suggested.
Postpartum management of beef cows
Throughout this calving season it is important to remember that continuing proper cow management is necessary for your cows to have a successful, tight calving window next year. One of the most effective ways to manage the post-partum interval is to maintain the body condition scores (BCS) of your herd.
National Beef Quality Audit – Results That Impact You
In this video Michaela Clowser, Tammy Vaassen and Bill Halfman discuss the 2022 NCBA Quality audit results with dairy and beef producers.
Herd Additions Are Risky: How to Mitigate Biosecurity Risk
As the gavel falls on your cattle purchase, do you really know what you bought? Herd additions have inherent risk. Every movement of cattle onto your cow-calf operation—be they cows, heifers, calves, or bulls—brings biosecurity risks to your farm. It is critical to isolate new additions so that any sickness they break with is not shared with your home herd.
