Are You Ready for Breeding Season? from Drovers

Thursday, May 5, 2016 | Web Version

Breeding Season: Are your beef cows ready? Two considerations often come to the top of the list when thinking about management strategies for setting the cowherd up for high pregnancy rates: 1) nutrition and 2) moving late calving cows up in the breeding season. Read More Now is the time to prepare for next spring’s calving season Only one to two months ago the spring calving cows were calving, the temperatures were colder and the calving pastures were covered with muck and manure. Read More Using ionophores with grazing beef cattle An ionophore is a feed additive used in beef cattle rations to improve feed efficiency and animal gains. Ionophores improve fermentation characteristics in the rumen, which leads to improved production efficiency. Read More Hold the line on feed costs Forages are the lowest-cost way to feed your herd. Get more with GrazonNext® HL herbicide, the new generation of superior broad-spectrum weed control. From thistles to broomweed and from ironweed to ragweeds, GrazonNext HL controls the toughest broadleaf weeds all season long. leavetheweedstous.com Excess protein not a problem this breeding season? While largely unfounded, it has been widely accepted that a relationship between blood urea nitrogen and fertility exists in beef cows. Read More The cheapest method to control pasture weeds From time to time people ask, “What is the cheapest way to control weeds in pastures?” A healthy, vigorous pasture grass will choke out most weeds that try to get established.Read More Select With Confidence PredicGEN® is designed for commercial cow-calf producers with straight-bred or crossbred British/Continental animals that are less than 75% Black Angus to: •Inform carcass and consumer trait performance •Help select replacement females •Add associated value to calves through various feeder/fed cattle marketing programs. Falling cattle prices, where is the bottom? Cattle prices have had a rough spring. After peaking in late 2014 and early 2015, prices have been adjusting downward from very lofty peaks. High prices and profits at that time provided the incentives to expand beef production. Read More Beef production surges in April Beef production is made up of two parts, the number of cattle slaughtered and their weights. Steer and heifer slaughter in April 2016 was up an estimated 1.8 percent over the year before. Read More Season Long Control Your cattle will look so good the neighbors will stare. Talk to your veterinarian or visit theLONGRANGElook.com for more information on prescription LONGRANGE®(eprinomectin).

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