Feed & Nutrition

Hay is one of the most common and expensive winter feedstuffs to produce in most regions of the country.

Let's recap the corn acreage estimates thus far for 2011's crop. On March 31, USDA-NASS reported U.S. corn farmers intended to plant 92.2 million acres of corn this year.

It is commonly thought that certain probiotics and direct-fed microbials (DFMs) can be used as “natural” alternatives to antibiotics in cattle.

A two-year study by a Texas AgriLife Research team in Amarillo has helped bring a new product to market that could allow the cattle feeding industry to realize efficiencies in mills and more weight on cattle, according to Jim MacDonald.

Let's take a look at what has happened to box beef prices, fed cattle prices, feeder cattle prices and corn prices over the last year. I will start with USDA Choice box beef prices. In June of 2010, the price averaged $157 per cwt. and increased to $168 by January 2011. In April of this year, the price increased to $188 and on June 1, 2011 the price had decreased to $178 per cwt.

An old family photo album holds a picture of a little girl with a huge smile, holding an even bigger bag of carrots, as she stares at her new lifelong adventure.