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1. Mixer safety tips: (Training Posters); Consejos de seguridad para las mezcladoras Mixer safety tips Click here or on the image above to download a PDF of the poster to view it in more detail. (PDF, 1.3 MB); Created on 01 October 2012
2. An offensive campaign isn’t all that bad: (From the Editor); If you’ve spent the past few years watching your kids or grandkids typing away on Facebook and Twitter, and muttering how such antics are a waste of time, then you’re not alone. You’re also dead wrong. ...; Created on 19 September 2012
3. Cattle Q&A with Kay Johnson Smith: (People in the News); Kay Johnson Smith is executive vice president for the Animal Agriculture Alliance. The alliance is a private, non-profit 501(c)3 entity promoting the abilities of farmers’ and ranchers’ modern production ...; Created on 19 September 2012
4. Feedlot operators may see options with the ‘crush’: (Market Reports); Cattle producers, like other livestock integrators, have had a difficult landscape to navigate recently. Last year’s drought that ravaged pasture conditions across the U.S. Southern Plains created widespread ...; Created on 19 September 2012
5. Global beef roundup: Australia building more market in EU nations: (Market Reports); Although a relatively small market for Australia compared to the U.S., Japan and Korea, the European Union remains the highest value export market for Australian beef on a per-ton basis. The EU has historically ...; Created on 19 September 2012
6. The capacity to serve: Graham Land and Cattle Co.: (Producer Profiles); Graham Land and Cattle Co. serves south Texas feeders with pen capacity for 30,000 head and enough pasture to background another 15,000 head. The company is located four miles south of Gonzales, Texas, ...; Created on 19 September 2012
7. Beta agonists – the power tools for finishing cattle: (Feed & Nutrition); It has been forecast that more food must be produced in the next 40 years than in the prior history of the world to meet the needs of the growing world population. Furthermore, these increases in food ...; Created on 18 September 2012
8. Quality beef considerations in the feeding stage: (Feed & Nutrition); The beef industry in the U.S. has always been based on producing a high-quality, safe, wholesome product that appeals to the consumer’s palate. When it comes to setting price points to the consumer, ...; Created on 18 September 2012
9. Return to old principles guides Montana range producer: (Grazing); Editors note: Click here to read the first of this two part series. No story of the American West can be told without including a strong sense of place. Is landscape a determinant? What about weather ...; Created on 18 September 2012
10. Overgrazing – I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!: (Grazing); I constantly encounter ranchers, conservationists and even professional range managers who are more than a bit confused by some grazing semantics. Particularly by the concepts of overgrazing, overutilization ...; Created on 18 September 2012
11. Changing desires for feeder cattle characteristics: (Feed & Nutrition); As the price of corn continues to hover around the historically high $8-per-bushel mark, feedyard concern about the performance of incoming cattle has never been greater. A feedyard is really only ...; Created on 18 September 2012
12. Sonoma symbiosis: California producer develops symbiotic ties with Herefords, grapes: (Producer Profiles); It’s not every day you see cattle grazing intertwined with grape-growing. But this has been the case since Marcia Mickelson’s father, the late Bob Kunde, began raising registered Herefords as a young ...; Created on 18 September 2012
13. Seven keys to your feedyard protocols: (Herd Health); We’ve all heard the famous quote, “failing to plan is planning to fail,” and this advice holds true when it comes to implementing successful protocols in your feedyard. For any processing protocol ...; Created on 18 September 2012
14. Monitor post-drought silage storage and feedout process: (Feed & Nutrition); When it comes to ensilage, most managers’ attention is given to the first part of the process: harvesting the crop at adequate forage stage of maturity and moisture. This is coupled with the use of a ...; Created on 17 September 2012
15. Management implications for grazing irrigated pastures in fall: (Grazing); Fall can be a critical period in the lives of desirable pasture plants. While it is common thought that plants that appear to be dormant can be grazed “to the ground” without hurting anything, perception ...; Created on 17 September 2012
16. Control mud and moisture on the feedlot: (Facilities & Equipment); Mud kills. It kills performance, it kills profitability and it can kill cattle. That seems like an ironic way to begin an article when most of the High Plains are thirsting for moisture. But even in ...; Created on 17 September 2012
17. It's the Pitts: You don’t say: (Lee Pitts); Here are some things you never want to hear your veterinarian say: “I wish my hands would quit shaking before I operate on your $1,000,000 stud.” “It’s nothing that $500 in medicine won’t cure.” “Of ...; Created on 17 September 2012
18. On the Edge of Common Sense: Talkin’ to the dog: (Baxter Black); I was talking to Okie. He’s the farm dog. He doesn’t care to go out on the range with the cow dogs. His job is mostly guarding, barking and putting up a big front. He does it well. I found him under one ...; Created on 17 September 2012

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