Species: beef-cattle

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Enhance Beef Cattle Reproduction: Improve Breeding Performance in Your Herd

Zinc: Aids in immunity, DNA synthesis and replication, and healing epithelial tissue. Manganese: Critical for fetal bone development and ensuring calf growth and health. Copper: Acts as part of the antioxidant system to protect against cellular damage. Cobalt: Promotes fiber digestion and is key to proper energy metabolism. Selenium: Crucial for antioxidant function, promoting immunity

Bringing Home Your New Show Cattle Project

“Lead the ‘calf’ to water” Providing fresh, clean water to livestock at all times is essential for your calf’s health, growth and performance. Water plays a key role in digestion, temperature regulation and overall well-being. Upon arrival, your calf may not instinctively locate the water source, so it’s important to

Prevent Hoof Rot and Transform Hoof Health in Beef Cows

Addressing foot rot requires multiple strategies: Limiting environmental stressors that promote foot rot Monitoring the incidence of foot rot in the herd Aggressively addressing infection when it occurs Providing premium trace mineral nutrition that acts as a preventative measure Combatting environmental challenges The bacteria responsible for foot rot are present

Understanding Heat Stress in Beef Cattle

What is Heat Stress in Beef Cattle? Heat stress occurs when a cow’s body temperature exceeds its normal range, due to high environmental temperatures and humidity. Cattle are particularly susceptible to heat stress due to their limited ability to sweat, making it challenging for them to cool down. This physiological

Preparing for Fall Calving Season

As with anything, a fall calving season has its advantages and disadvantages. Ensuring effective pasture management, helping mitigate any effects of heat stress and providing your herd with proper nutrition is all important for a successful fall calving herd. Optimizing Pasture Management Effective grass management is important for both fall

Considerations for Protein Supplementation

EnergiLass® offers self-fed protein and/or mineral blocks to make supplementing your cattle easy. Here are 5 tips to help make your supplement program work for you.

Transform Hoof Health in Beef Cows

Healthy hooves enable your cows and calves to achieve optimal lifetime performance and excel in all stages from reproduction to the feedlot. Feeding the best diet that includes premium trace mineral nutrition optimizes hoof health and helps prevent lameness issues that require costly treatment. Addressing foot rot requires multiple strategies:

The Mineral Encyclopedia – Abridged

Minerals are an ever important, but often forgotten nutrient. Found in most feedstuffs and required in such smaller quantities when compared to other nutrients like water, energy, and protein, it’s easy to not keep them at the front of your nutritional plan. Further difficulty lies in keeping all the minerals,

Setting Beef Cows Up to Produce the Best Colostrum for Calves

Whether you’re raising beef calves as replacement animals for your herd or for the feedlot, the Lifetime Performance® of your calves is influenced on day one. It’s no secret that colostrum plays a critical role in starting beef calves off on the right foot. Calves are born with naked immunity, which

Show Cattle Tips for Winter

Check out these tips to help keep your show calf on track for the backdrop during the winter months.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Calving is just around the corner. With a little bit of pre-work, calving season can truly be a most wonderful time of the year.

The Economics of Supplementation

As the season changes, producers are making plans for winter-feeding. The question is which type of protein supplement will give cattlemen the most bang for their buck.