cattle Articles
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What are the Different Types Of Cattle Feed?
There are many types of cattle feed available. All of them provide energy and protein as well as other vital nutrients. There are three main types of cattle feed: cattle cubes and pelleted cattle food. Cattle Cubes Cattle cubes can help maintain your herd's weight and condition. They are specially formulated to provide fair and low-quality fodder. Cattle cubes are rich in vitamins, minerals, ...
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Forage Council to Delve Into Cattle Marketing at Meeting
Crow Wing River Basin Forage Council is exploring marketing options for cattle at its annual Winter Meeting from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 20, at the Commons at Central Lakes College in Staples. The meeting will also have a presentation on farm transitions, a direct marketing panel and a three-part marketing session with experts on branding grass-fed beef, aggregating and auctions. ...
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Examination of Salmonella and Escherichia Coli translocation from hog manure to forage, soil, and cattle grazed on the hog manure-treated pasture
Use of hog (Sus scrofa) manure as a fertilizer is a practical solution for waste re-utilization, however, it may serve as a vehicle for environmental and domestic animal contamination. Work was conducted to determine whether pathogens, naturally present in hog manure could be detected in cattle (Bos taurus) grazed on the manure-treated pasture, and whether forage contamination occurred. During ...
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Evaluation of cattle bedding and grazing BMPs in an agricultural watershed in Alberta
This paper highlights the environmental impacts of implementing beneficial management practices to address cattle bedding and direct access to the creek in a study watershed in southern Alberta, Canada. Approximately 35 cow–calf pairs grazed 194 ha of grass forage and had direct access to the creek in the spring and summer. During winter, the cattle were fed adjacent to the creek at an old ...
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Superior Quality Cattle Feed Pellet Plant
Cattle feed pellets can satisfy the growth needs of cattle in different growth stages. We can customize the cattle feed pellet plant for your choose. Cattle Feed Pellet Introduction Cattle feed pellet is a type of compound feed mainly made from barley, forage, bean, bran, wheat, corn, and additives, such as vitamins, minerals, and other essential micro-ingredients. The livestock feed pellet ...
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Cattle gain and crop yield for a dryland wheat-sorghum-fallow rotation
Increasing pumping costs and declining well capacities in the U.S. Southern High Plains have led to greater reliance on less productive and inherently riskier dryland cropping systems. Dryland wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] are typically grown in a 3-yr wheat-sorghum-fallow (WSF) rotation that may be intensified by integrating cattle (Bos taurus) ...
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Plastic Disease: You Need To Remove Net Wrap From Hay Bales
Why Do Farmers Use Net Wrap? Ever wonder how hay is Stored in Cattle Fields? Farmers use Net Wrap, which is often made out of plastic or twine. Plastic Net wrap and twine are used to hold Hay Bales together until it is time to feed cattle. It is a quick and convenient way to gather, load, and unload Hay Bales. In fact, when stored and applied properly, Net Wrap can maintain most of ...
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Dietary forage impacts on dairy slurry nitrogen availability to corn
Precise feeding of protein and mineral supplement can maintain high levels of milk production and reduce nutrient excretion in dairy manure and losses to the environment. No information is available on the impacts of feeding different silages to dairy cattle (Bos taurus) on manure N cycling in soils. Slurry from dairy cattle fed rations containing alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.; ALF), red clover ...
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How farmers are saving on feed costs, and boosting profits
With livestock feed being the single largest expense when running cattle, the need to focus on reducing waste, especially when margins come under pressure, is of utmost importance. How do farmers save on feed costs, and boost profits? Find out how... Our Hustler Business Development team in the USA recently got involved with a study being held at Oklahoma State University where they tested ...
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Supplementation strategies effects on performance of beef heifers grazing stockpiled pastures
The increased cost of inputs has led livestock producers in the southeastern United States to use alternative management practices to supplement beef cattle (Bos spp.) on pastures. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of beef heifers grazing stockpiled limpograss [Hemarthria altissima (Poir.) Stapf & C.E. Hubb.] pastures supplemented with cottonseed meal (CSM, Gossypium ...
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Ruminant Animal Feed Production Business Plan
In recent years, more and more farmers who feed cattle, cow, sheep and other animals choose to make their own animal feed by purchasing a small set of ruminant animal feed production plant. How much does it cost to set up an animal feed production plant? What’s the price of small feed processing unit? How to make the best ruminant animal feed production business plan? Hot Sale Equipment ...
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Simulating gross primary productivity of humid-temperate pastures
Although most pasture growth models simulate many above- and belowground components of the plant community, calibration and validation are usually based only on periodic measurements of aboveground forage yield. This research used daily measurements of gross primary productivity (GPP) to validate the photosynthesis subroutine of the Integrated Farm System Model (IFSM). The model was calibrated ...
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Rolled vs. Machined Cutting Edge Disc Mower Knives Case Study
Disc mower knives are used in mower conditioners to cut forage that will be dried and later gathered for cattle feed. There has been a long-standing debate between which knives are better: knives with a rolled cutting edge or the Kondex machined edge disc mower knives. Kondex participated in a recent study to answer this question. DMK Differences. As shown below, the rolled disc mower knife ...
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Beef Farmer Spring 2017 `Trace elements are key to growth rates`
Iodine has a direct impact on growth rates as it is incorporated into the thyroid hormones which control metabolism, promoting efficient live weight gain. Annie Williams, Animal Scientist with Agrimin says that many beef units fall short on achieving optimum growth rates because animals do not receive adequate levels of trace elements at grass. She says that with increased feed costs, many ...
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Ruminants: The importance of feed analysis
Why is it important to have a high-quality feed? The quality of ruminant feed is directly linked with milk production, animal health, as well as farm performance. As feed costs represent a significant number of the total production costs, it is crucial to ensure feed nutritional values and quality throughout the whole year. Therefore, the intake of superior quality TMR and silages can help to ...
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Assessment of pasture biomass with the normalized difference vegetation index from active ground-based sensors
Calculating forage availability is challenging for managers of grazing systems due to the spatial heterogeneity of swards. Remote sensing applications may help to overcome this problem through estimates of biomass made with reflectance data. The objectives of this study were to (i) estimate herbage mass using an active, on-the-go, ground-based, narrow band sensor to calculate the normalized ...
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Optimizing stocking rate for maximum return to a wheat–cattle enterprise using model simulation and economics
Managing dual-purpose wheat is complex because of the tradeoff relationship between cattle (Bos taurus) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production. Stocking rate (SR) and planting date are key decision variables of the dual systems. The objective was to develop decision support information that help farmers boost profits by adapting SR and planting date to particular production and market ...
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See how Bill Fales survives the economical climate by investing in a hustler
Find out how Bill Fales overcomes labour intensive and traditional methods of feeding out to his livestock, being the biggest challenge on his family ranch in Carbondale Colorado. Bill Fales inherited his Ranch through his wife's family and been living and working on it for the last 45 years. One of Bill's challenges with feeding out has been that he was used to traditional feeding methods ...
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Cattle manure application strategies effects on bahiagrass yield, nutritive value, and phosphorus recovery
Animal manure application based on crop N requirements often leaves excess P in the soil because of the differences in the N/P ratio in manures and that required by the plants. This experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of cattle (Bos taurus) manure applied alone or in combination with ammonium nitrate (AN) on bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flügge) dry matter (DM) yield, nutritive value, ...
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Cattle manure application strategies effects on bahiagrass yield, nutritive value, and phosphorus recovery
Animal manure application based on crop N requirements often leaves excess P in the soil because of the differences in the N/P ratio in manures and that required by the plants. This experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of cattle (Bos taurus) manure applied alone or in combination with ammonium nitrate (AN) on bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flügge) dry matter (DM) yield, nutritive value, ...
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