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This section covers information pertaining to cattle feed and livestock feeding. Nutrition is an important area in livestock production. Ranches today keep a close eye on feed and nutrition. Try keyword searches like by-products, commodities, or total digestible nutrients, and you find scores of helpful articles.
Winter Feed Can Account For 70% Of Feed Expenses
published: November 3rd 2008 by: David Burton source: Springfield News Leader
So figuring out where to spend your money on supplements is an important decision, according to Wesley Tucker, agriculture business specialist, University of Missouri Extension. "Developing a good supplementation program is a simple four-step process that each producer can do themselves," he said....
Monsanto Establishes Fund For Plant Breeding
published: November 1st 2008 source: TAMU Ag Communications
COLLEGE STATION – Monsanto Co. has provided $750,000 to establish a graduate assistantship fund in plant breeding at Texas A&M University. The Monsanto Graduate Assistantship Fund in Plant Breeding will be matched by Texas AgriLife Research and the university’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences....
Economics of creep feeding
published: October 31st 2008 by: By Louisiana State University Beef Cattl
Currently, with regard to beef calves, heavier calves are retaining a considerably higher percentage of their value when compared to their lighter counterparts. For instance, there may be only a ten to fifteen percent difference in the price/lb between a 450 and 750 lb calf....
Cattle Fed Distiller’s Grain Retain Tenderness and Flavor
published: October 22nd 2008 by: Kay Ledbetter source: TAMU Ag Communications
The availability and use of wet distiller’s grains in beef finishing diets continues to increase as the ethanol industry expands, and some Texas AgriLife Research scientists are trying to determine if that will affect consumers’ meat purchases....
Balancing Rations by Hand or Computer
published: October 20th 2008 by: Dale M. Forsyth, Animal Science Dept source: Purdue University
Statement of Purpose: I have received numerous requests for a reprint of a paper I wrote entitled Computer Programming of Beef Cattle Diets, a chapter in the book BEEF CATTLE FEEDING AND NUTRITION, 2nd Ed....
Higher Risks, Greater Awards
published: October 14th 2008 by: Jeff DeYoung source: Farm and Ranch Guide
AMES, Iowa - Feed costs will continue to drive the livestock market for the foreseeable future, a group of analysts said at a recent livestock risk conference here. But, with that higher risk could come greater reward....
Frequently Asked Nutrition Questions
published: October 7th 2008 source: University of Arkansas
Question: How do I feed my cattle during drought conditions? Answer: See Example Feeding Programs for Drought Conditions (PDF) for the information you need. Question. Can I feed cottonseed meal to my young bulls? Answer....
Feeding methods to reduce hay wastage
published: October 3rd 2008 by: Twig T. Marston source: Kansas State University
Producers concerned with lowering their feed bills need to evaluate and optimize their hay handling techniques. Kansas farm management date from 1980 to 2006 indicate that the total annual cow cost (both variable and fixed) has risen to over $550 per cow and that feed expenses are 47....
Gin Trash and Peanut Hulls Possible Feedstuffs for Cattle
published: September 23rd 2008 source: Beef Cattle Browsing
As prices of most feedstuffs have increased dramatically, producers search for lower-cost materials. Auburn University researchers compared cotton gin trash and peanut hulls. Steers of Angus X Continental breeding initially weighing 513 lb were fed for 112 days either: -45% peanut hulls + 55% cracked corn -45% peanut hulls + 47% cracked corn + 8% cottonseed meal -45% gin trash + 55% cracked corn -45% gin trash + 47% cracked corn + 8% cottonseed meal Steers on gin trash ate significantly more (22....
Tips For Storing Dried Distillers Grain
published: September 16th 2008 by: Darrell R. Mark, Galen E. Erickson, Josi source: University of Nebraska
In the last few years, the decrease in co-product price, particularly for wet distillers grains plus solubles (WDGS), during the late summer months has provided incentive for producers to purchase co-products and store it to feed at a later date....
Feeding For Weight Gain
published: September 8th 2008 source: Noble Foundation
Historically, feeder calf prices decline as weight increases. That relationship of price to weight still exists, but it has narrowed considerably due to the high price of corn and feedlot cost of gain....
Texas Tech Professor Helps Bring New Wave To Feeding Industry
published: September 2nd 2008 by: Marlena Hartz source: Avalanche-Journal
The machine's steel bars, built like a Venus flytrap, clenched the steer, holding him still on a chilly morning so a team of Texas Tech researchers could accurately measure his weight. The steer - tagged number 737 - is a resident of the university's farm in New Deal....
A&M Researcher Develops Drought Resistant Corn
published: August 26th 2008 by: Robert Burns source: TAMU Ag Communications
ETTER – At the end of the day, drought tolerance in corn has to equate to good yields and good quality, not just good looks, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist. Dr. Wenwei Xu, AgriLife Research corn breeder from Lubbock, is working with crosses between temperate and tropically adapted varieties of corn to find a drought-tolerant plant that performs well under reduced irrigation....
New Virus Threatens High Plains Wheat Crop
published: August 21st 2008 by: Kay Ledbetter source: TAMU Ag Communications
AMARILLO – Triticum mosaic virus poses a new threat to Texas wheat, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists in Amarillo. The disease was discovered in 2006 by Dr. Dallas Seifers, a Kansas State University researcher, said Jacob Price, AgriLife Research associate researcher....
Corn Numbers For Harvest Increases
published: August 12th 2008 by: Alan Bjerga source: Bloomberg News Service
Corn and soybean crops in the U.S., the world's largest producer, avoided the damage investors anticipated in June from the worst flooding in 15 years as ``ideal'' weather helped plants recover, the government said....
2008 High Plains Wheat Harvest Disappointing
published: July 31st 2008 by: Kay Ledbetter source: TAMU Ag Communications
AMARILLO – Following record wheat yields experienced in the High Plains last year, 2008 was a disappointment, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert. Throughout the Panhandle, many dryland, and even a few of the irrigated fields, were not harvested due to drought and virus infection, said Dr....
To maximize biofuel potential, researchers look for sorghum’s "sweet spot"
published: September 21st 2007
BEAUMONT – Picture this – IV (intravenous) lines in a sorghum field. It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds. It’s one way that scientists at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station are researching crops that may contribute to the biofuel revolution....
Producers urged to have hay tested
published: September 7th 2007 by: Martha Hollida Garrett
Hay, hay and more hay. All across Texas, hay is abundant and plentiful, which is a very different scenario from just a year ago. While the quantity may be plentiful, the quality may still be lacking due to the abundance of moisture and the extended maturity of a lot of the hay prior to baling....
New forage legume could ease nitrogen cost-shock
published: September 7th 2007 by: Robert Burns
OVERTON – Rio Verde lablab, a recently released forage legume by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, could provide some relief to nitrogen fertilizer cost-shock. Not only does it not require nitrogen fertilizer, Rio Verde lablab is found palatable by both cattle and wildlife, said its developer, Dr....
Sorghum producers optimistic about biofuel potential
published: August 24th 2007
COLLEGE STATION – Motorists traveling along Brazos bottom farmland just outside of College Station are doing double takes over a towering 12-foot sorghum crop. The unorthodox-looking sorghum is the latest study by Dr....
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