Weaning Decisions to Maximize Cow/Calf Revenues

Weaning Decisions to Maximize Cow/Calf Revenues

I’m a week behind schedule getting to this sixth installment of Rambling on Revenues. I wish my excuse was “life happens and sometimes the article doesn’t get written on time”. Unfortunately, this time death, not life, happened. I was away from work last week to try...
How Weed Infestations in Pastures affect Cattle Performance?

How Weed Infestations in Pastures affect Cattle Performance?

Jose Dubeux, Luana Queiroz, Erick Santos, Martin Ruiz-Moreno, UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center, Marianna Weed encroachment in grasslands results in large economic losses to livestock enterprises. Weeds compete for water, light, and nutrients, and...
Friday Feature:  Florida Cracker Cattle – A Spanish Legacy

Friday Feature: Florida Cracker Cattle – A Spanish Legacy

This week’s featured video was produced by the Florida Department of Agriculture for the Florida Museum to be presented at the Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition exhibit that travel around the state back in 2011.  Since we are celebrating the...
Maximizing Revenue with Calf Management

Maximizing Revenue with Calf Management

This is the fifth installment of my ramblings on revenues (a good title for the series, wish I’d have thought of it sooner). As we get farther into this discussion it becomes increasingly obvious that most, if not all, of these topics are interconnected. My comments...
Friday Funny Feature:  Baxter Black’s Cow Stupidity

Friday Funny Feature: Baxter Black’s Cow Stupidity

Baxter Black is a veterinarian who became famous for his humorous cowboy poetry.  He certainly has a unique way of viewing the humor in day to day activities of cattle ranches.  This week’s featured video was published by NCBA’s Cattlemen to Cattlemen to...
Maximizing Cull Cow Revenues

Maximizing Cull Cow Revenues

  This week’s conversation about maximizing revenues centers on a topic that is generally not very popular with cattlemen – cull cows. I don’t know a single cattleman that enjoys culling cows from the herd. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, each year there...