Body Condition Scoring and Reproductive Performance Body condition scoring (BCS) helps guide your decisions on herd nutrition and maintain reproductive performance of your cows.
Take Advantage of Corn Residue Learn how beef cattle producers can extend grazing season into early winter by taking advantage of crop residues, particularly corn.
Feeding Dairy-Beef Cross Calves for Top Performance Over the past few years, dairy farms have been benefiting from crossbreeding their dairy cows to beef bulls. Angus bulls are usually the breed of choice in these programs, however, I have seen a variety of other beef breed bulls used with similar results. When compared to straight bred Holstein calves, dairy-beef cross calves have … Feeding Dairy-Beef Cross Calves for Top Performance Read More »
Tips for Using EnergiLass® With Your Cow Herd 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.
Winter Bunk and Pen Management Feeding cattle in winter weather presents a variety of challenges. Not only do we have a variety of forms of precipitation with which to deal, but we can have wild barometric swings that can have a large influence on feed intake.
Maximize Winter Grazing Meeting cow herd nutritional requirements takes on many different forms depending on forage availability, location and management, and can be especially challenging with winter grazing situations.
