by Doug Mayo | Feb 21, 2020
This week’s featured video was produced by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) as part of their “Cattlemen to Cattlemen” video series to introduce the 2020 NCBA President, Marty Smith. Marty is a fifth-generation Florida rancher...
by external | Feb 14, 2020
Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist Despite our best efforts at bull selection and heifer development, cows or heifers occasionally need assistance at calving time. Every baby calf has a certain degree of respiratory acidosis....
by Doug Mayo | Feb 14, 2020
This week’s featured video, was produced by Greg Judy, the self-proclaimed, “Regenerative Rancher” from Green Pastures Farm in Missouri, to show how and why he uses an ATV round bale hay unroller for his cattle operation. The ATV nearly eliminates...
by external | Feb 7, 2020
Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist The latest Cattle report issued by USDA confirms that cyclical herd expansion in the U.S. is over. The total inventory of all cattle and calves on January 1, 2020 was 94.413 million...
by Mark Mauldin | Jan 31, 2020
In the past few weeks I’ve been to couple of bull sales and visited with numerous buyers. These interactions have reminded me that there is still a great deal of uncertainty among perspective buyers about how to effectively use expected progeny differnces (EPDs), and...
by Marcelo Wallau | Jan 31, 2020
Cleber Lopes de Sousa and Marcelo Wallau, UF/IFAS Agronomy Department Forage Team Most pasture acres in Florida are warm-season, perennial grasses; as winter comes, their production and nutritive value decrease. An alternative to overcome this shortfall of forage...
