Feed & Nutrition

Now may be a good time to look at your mineral program. In late gestation, the cow will be setting the calf up to meet its future trace mineral needs by filling the fetal liver with relatively high concentrations of trace minerals.

Winter nutrition and management has many focal points, but there are a few management decisions all cattle producers should place on their to-do lists.

Have you yet come across the acronym RFI? Of course, you say, as you run and check the internet: Radio France Internationale, request for information, the RFI app for Android smartphones and also RFI Corp., a high-tech electronics company in the aerospace industry.

Range cattle nutrition is largely dependent on the amount and quality of forage the grazed site can produce.

Every cattle operation has a mineral program, whether they realize it or not.

Feed costs make up the largest expense in a cow-calf operation. While hay is often used to feed cows through the winter, current prices make corn a competitive option to feeding hay.