Species: beef-cattle
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.
Late Season Fly Control: Finish Strong and Get a Jump on Next Season
Flies are an unavoidable nuisance when it comes to cattle production. However, with good management practices we can take some of their sting out of the equation. While the majority of cattle producers are on top of fly control programs in the spring and summer that focus can shift as
‘Tis the Season…for Grass Tetany
Regardless of your address, we can all agree that it’s been a strange winter, if you can even call it that. Record setting high temperatures and cool nights have pastures turning green. The forecasts promise some precipitation as well, setting up decent conditions for pasture growth. The combination of sun,
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,
Enhance Reproductive Performance in Your Beef Herd
Your herd’s profitability depends on successful cow reproduction. Whether you choose to invest in a herd bull or AI, setting your cows up for high conception rates and reproductive health is crucial to capitalize on new genetics. Providing a complete nutrient package, including trace minerals, can improve your cows’ reproductive
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.
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.