It’s believed native grasslands contain plants a century old, their tillers advancing inch by inch to create a perpetual ecosystem
By grazing annual crops, livestock producers can find some windows of increased available crude protein
costs It’s easy to see the money coming in to a beef cow operation, but not so easy to know what’s going out
Reading Time: 3 minutes The times are good for prices, but cattle producers have a lot on their minds these days. Calving has started on many ranches, and the complicated production scenarios already are constantly churning for producers. Unfortunately, the dollars associated with many production scenarios often are in place well before adequate financial evaluations are done. The critical […] Read morecomparisons As the years pass, experienced cattle producers understand the need to genetically balance the cow herd
Reading Time: 3 minutes Perhaps the beef business is not unique. However, each year, when our students gather to study beef production, they are geared to determine what is right. Many think they already know. This bull or that bull, this steer or that steer, this cow or that cow. The comparisons can be numerous, but the urge is […] Read more
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