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Feed Composition Tables
Ins And Outs Of Byproducts
The search for renewable fuels has spurred revolutionary growth in biodiesel and ethanol production. As a result, the beef industry is scrambling to fill...
Playing The Hand
As a cattle feeder, observes Alan Janzen, I have to look at what I'm faced with; what is the practical issue here? It's always been thus in a business...
2008 Feed Composition Tables
Typical Composition Of Feeds For Cattle And Sheep: Annual compilation of values for more than 250 feedstuffs...
2007 Feed Composition
Nutrition research spanning more than 100 years has defined the nutrients required by animals. Using this information...
Subbing On Supplement
In the life of a first-calf heifer, there are very few things you can be sure of. You can, however, count on this - it isn't easy...
Steamed By Flaking
Cattle feeders can use futures and options to against high or low corn, feeder cattle or fed-cattle markets. But when costs increase dramatically on the...
Making Hay Without It
The drought in 1998 was the first time in recent years we faced a crisis like this year, where you have very limited forage standing forage or hay and...
Nutritional supplements
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica offers Bovikalc calcium boluses and Diaque nutritional supplement for calves. Bovikalc is an oral nutritional supplement...
From Our Columnists
Even With High Prices, Be Sure To Weigh The Return
Depending on which side of the biscuit you butter, these are fixing to be halcyon days in the cow-calf business. At least they are judging by the chatter you hear...
Key Economic Opportunities In Calf Marketing
My last series of articles focused on the economic challenges occurring in the beef-cow sector since the start of the biofuels era. This month, I’ll focus on the key economic opportunities...
Nitrate Accumulation In Plants Is A Matter Of Many Factors
Drought has made it a very rough year for many herds in the U.S. In the midst of this scramble for forage in drought areas, we need to be careful about where feeds originate...
