Beef Article Archive
Beef Market Looks To Recover
Following a two-year expansion period mid-decade, the beef industry's cow-calf sector moved into a liquidation phase in 2007-2009. The number of beef...
A Shot Of Sweetness: Nutrition Injection System Makes Poor Hay Palatable
Southern dairy and beef cattle producers with low- to medium-quality round bales of hay can increase its palatability and possibly its nutritive value...
Extreme Grazeover
For cow-calf producer Terry Gompert, the role of cattle extends well beyond beef production. The animals are part of a holistic pasture management system,...
Grass-Fed Beef Business Booms
Todd Churchill needs more producers to finish cattle on organic grass pastures so he can meet the burgeoning demand for his premium-priced beef. Sales...
Beef Producer Summer Stockpiling For (Nearly) Year- Round Grazing
Early summer stockpiling is helping Robert Shoemaker, Delaplane, VA, nearly attain his goal of rotationally grazing a 350-head herd of Angus-based crossbreeds...
Flexible Annual Forage
More and more livestock producers are looking at crabgrass, not as a weed, but as a high-quality summer hay and pasture alternative. The sturdy annual...
Where Sainfoin Fits
To many people, sainfoin is a new crop. But to Don Keil, it's an old friend. Sainfoin has been a part of his forage program for more than 40 years. It...
Grazing Corn: Cattlemen Like Automatic Feeding
For Jay Jensen and his family, feeding cattle every day through an Idaho winter has become a distant memory instead of a chore. This is the third winter...
Distillers Grains Don’t All Feed Alike
To successfully incorporate distillers grains into High Plains beef cattle finishing rations, nutritionists must know what types of grain the ethanol byproducts were produced from...
Flake Feeder
Finding a one-man feeder that would be safe and flake rather than process big square bales was a challenge from customers that Denzil Robbins didn't take...
