Author: The Cattleman
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Summer Annual Forages
Summer annuals are fast-growing, high-quality forages that can be used to supplement tall fescue systems.
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Grazing Silvopasture
Silvopasture is an agroforestry practice that intentionally integrates trees, and pasture and forage crops.
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Homeopathy: The Mechanics
Homeopathy can be an alternative for your Dexter herd. – Submitted by Riley Wohlgemuth
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Clean Water Requirements
Remember to keep those troughs clean…especially if your milking your Irish Dexters. – Submitted by Riley Wohlgemuth
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Keeping Small Farms in Business
The first free and farmer-owned software platform built for local farm sales.
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A Farmer’s Guide to Online Orders
We’ve interviewed farmers of all scales, and we’ve shared their expert advice in this free guide.
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7. VALUE-ADD & INCREASE MARGINS
Successful farms protect their margins and hold tenaciously to their customers.
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Setbacks in US beef exports
The loss of upward momentum is the result of two negative headlines affecting US beef exports to China.
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Filling the summer forage gap
Valerie Tate shares management solutions, including planting warm-season annual forages such as pearl millet and sorghum-sudangrass
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GRASS FED BEEF: COUNTING THE COSTS
Higher prices have been a boon for cow/calf have not come without a rise in input costs.
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Regenerative Beef: The Healthier Choice
Ultimately producing meat that is richer in nutrients and omega-3 fatty acids (the good fats).
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Heat stress toolbox
Seeing the signs of heat stress and being prepared can help your cattle recover.
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Best Treatments for Pinkeye
Treat pinkeye and it will get better in a week. Left untreated it will be better in 7 days.
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Rotationally Grazing a Cow/Calf Herd
This something that was a little bit of a stumbling block for me.
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Judging Your Udder
A tutorial on judging dairy cattle, by the Virginia Tech Dairy Cattle Judging team.
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USING REFRACTOMETERS & PENETROMETERS
When you click the ‘measure’ button, within about 3 seconds you can get an exact reading to one decimal place.
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The Best Beef
The Randall Line back, Galloway and Dexter chewed up nearly as many first place votes as any of the other breeds tasted.
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Why Dexter Cattle?
Renown chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oilver, indicate they’ve found something better…and just like diamonds… it comes in small packages. Introducing Dexter cattle.
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Give up meat? Not so fast
Cattle-based beef is still chosen in the marketplace about three times more often than plant-based protein alternatives
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Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again
US grass-fed beef industry seems to be scaling up in the US.
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Herd Health Planning Calendar
Production objectives may vary considerably between individual producers.
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Bird Flu in Dairy Cows?
CDC believes the current risk to the general public from bird flu viruses is low.
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