Feed & Nutrition

It’s a new year, which brings new opportunities for you to improve the health and productivity of your beef herd.

We’ve all heard the snickers: “That guy finishes Holsteins.” Or “You must really like to get to know your cattle since they’re in the yard for so long.”

Although cold stress may look different in different places, the principles of dealing with it are the same.

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.