Source: Merck news release
Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), today announced the introduction of SENSEHUB Cow Calf, remote monitoring...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
Knowing which cows are pregnant can help with strategic selection of the herd.
In a year where feed supplies are tight, knowing which cows are pregnant and which ones are open provides options that may not...
Source: National Farm Animal Care Council, Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Beef Cattle Section 4.2
The majority of beef cows calve without assistance. However, careful monitoring of calving cows ensures that assistance, when needed, can be provided...
Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yijie Xiong, NE Extension Specialist, Precision Livestock Management
Kacie McCarthy, UNL Cow-Calf Specialist
Travis Mulliniks, UNL Beef Cattle Nutritionist, Range Production Systems
In the last few years, buzzwords like precision livestock management have been thrown around quite a bit....
By mid-November, most cow-calf operators in the U.S. are feeding hay or preparing to do so, as winter feed costs represent the largest expense in cow-calf production. Following a tight hay supply in 2022, 2023 saw improved production, leading...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council, www.BeefResearch.ca
Johne’s disease has been a lingering threat to the beef industry for decades, and cases appear to be on the rise. It is often difficult to measure these increases, because infected herds can go unnoticed due...
Source: Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Many producers may be looking at retaining animals on the farm this fall, in particular producers who would normally be selling calves. The following budgets are designed as a guideline only, to assist producers...
Source: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Introduction
In analyzing the cow-calf industry, the four factors that are more commonly used by producers as influencing profit are:
weaning weight of the calves
percent of cows weaning calves
annual cost...
Source: Utah State University
Authors: Reganne Briggs, Katelyn Barsnick, Cheyenne Reid, Ashley Longmore
Having bottle-fed calves on the ranch is common for beef producers. The most likely scenarios are a cow has died, a cow isn’t giving enough milk, or a...
Source: Midwestern Cattle Marketing, LLC
One reproductive disease that all cattle ranchers find disastrous to a cowherd is Bovine Trichomoniasis also known as Trich.
Bovine Trichomoniasis is a veneral disease caused by the protozoan Tritrichomonas foetus, a mobile complex, single-celled organism...
