Source: South Dakota State University, Warren Rusche, Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension Feedlot Specialist
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Bedding cattle during extreme cold conditions dramatically reduces maintenance energy costs and improves gain and feed efficiency with potential carryover effects to the end of...
Source: Elanco news release
Today Elanco Animal Health (NYSE:ELAN) announces the addition of PenPoint™ Sort to help cattle feeders maximize profitability. PenPoint Sort adds to the existing Elanco Knowledge Solutions portfolio of services designed to optimize practices and products through...
Source: Michigan State University Extension, Jerad Jaborek
Lameness can be caused by a variety of reasons such as hairy heel warts, foot rot, laminitis, toe and sole ulcers, toe abscesses, hoof lesions, limb injuries, or joint infections.
Following bovine respiratory disease, lameness...
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), announced today SENSEHUB® Feedlot, the company’s technology that provides real-time data to detect potentially...
Source: South Dakota State University, Russ Daly, Professor, SDSU Extension Veterinarian, State Public Health Veterinarian
While we usually think of foot problems in feedlot calves occurring in conjunction with warm, muddy conditions, wintertime also brings a certain set of conditions that can...
Source: Michigan State University Extension, Jerad Jaborek
Buller steer syndrome is a complex behavioral issue that needs more research to determine its causative effects.
Buller steer syndrome (BSS) is an undesirable behavior characterized by one steer, the buller, being mounted and...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council, www.BeefResearch.ca
What do profitable farms do? This is one of the questions the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production Network (COP Network) tries to answer by benchmarking cow-calf production systems across Canada.
As of 2022, the COP Network is...
Source: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
More than 150 leaders from across Nebraska’s beef industry gathered at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center near Mead Nov. 4 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Feedlot Innovation Center.
The $7.2 million...
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Today's feedlot rations often contain a high inclusion of grains and grain byproducts with some level of roughage inclusion. While the objective of feeding finishing cattle a ration with a high amount of...
Source: South Dakota State Univesity
The yield of edible meat from a beef carcass often comes as a bit of a surprise, even to those that have had their own meat processed for years. A previous article covered dressing percent—the...
