Friday Feature:  Florida Crackers – The Cowboys of Florida

Friday Feature: Florida Crackers – The Cowboys of Florida

This week’s featured video comes from the archives of author Patrick Smith who wanted to highlight the heritage of cattle ranching in Florida that still lives on today.  You will notice the difference in video quality and the type of graphics used to make this...
Friday Funny Feature:  Peterson Farm Brothers’ Pasture Road

Friday Funny Feature: Peterson Farm Brothers’ Pasture Road

The Peterson Farm Brothers have become famous for making parody videos of popular music to show what true farm life is like.  Last week they introduced “Pasture Road,”  which is their 16th music video filmed at their farm in Kansas.  This featured video, ...
Follow BQA Injection Site Guidelines at Spring Roundup

Follow BQA Injection Site Guidelines at Spring Roundup

Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist The months of April and May are traditionally the time when “spring roundups” take place.   This is the time that large and small cow/calf operations schedule the “working” of the calves.  As...
Winter Feeding Your Cowherd – Those Girls are Expensive

Winter Feeding Your Cowherd – Those Girls are Expensive

Chris Prevatt, UF/IFAS Livestock Economist While the memories of the 2018-2019 winter feeding season are still fresh in your mind, let’s review winter feeding costs for beef cows. Last fall, a beef producer contacted me after purchasing a truckload of bahiagrass hay...