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Yearly Archives: 2019

Help Replacement Heifers Be More Successful Calving and Breeding Back

In this video from Oklahoma State University Extension and SunUp TV, Glenn Selk, OSU Extension Cattle Specialist, talks about the key to your replacement...

For You Bacon Lovers

Sometimes bacon comes before everything.

Maybe This is Why You Don’t Like the Research Coming From Land Grant Colleges

From time to time readers complain about the research coming out of our land grant colleges. "It headed us in the wrong direction." "It...

Lies, Scams, Disagreements, Misunderstandings – The Need for Written Agreements and/or Contracts

We all prefer trusting and being trustworthy, but sometimes things just don't work out without a contract of some sort to clarify expectations. Here are some examples of problems that could have been prevented by having more than a handshake.

Tips for Grazing Cover Crops

When we graze cover-crops we always need to be considering both meeting the livestock needs as well as soil building objectives. The more cover-crop...

Thinking of Seeding Your Pastures?

By this time of year, any seeding of forages would be considered a dormant seeding. Seeds planted now will lay there until the right...

Low-Stress Livestock Handling – Starting Herd Movement For a Successful Drive

For the past few years, Whit Hibbard has been sharing a series of articles on Low-Stress Livestock Handling (LSLH). We've gathered these articles as...

Soil Fertility and Good Feed – That’s Why Greg Judy Unrolls Hay

Back in 1999 when we first started leasing idle land for grazing that needed serious fertility, I designed my first bale unroller. We had all...

How to Save Hypothermic Lambs

In winter lambing flocks, hypothermia and starvation of newborn lambs can account for nearly all of the pre-weaning death loss of lambs. It’s a...

Snowman Humor x 3

For all of you covered in snow this week...

Preventing the Spread of Medusahead

Last week we looked at why Medusahead Rye is so dangerous. This week Beth shares how we can prevent its spread. These tips are...

Pugging Prevention For Wet Winter Grazing

Last week Troy Bishopp described how he met the challenge of grazing with wet weather and late freezing temperatures. (Of course the best prevention...

Prepping for Calving Season

Most of these tips apply to any kind of livestock that will be giving birth. So check it out!

The Curse of Medusahead Rye

A team of genetic engineers couldn't have devised a more ecologically lethal and effective invasive weed than Medusahead Rye. Beth Burritt is one of the researchers working on ways to stop it in it's march across the U.S. from west to east. In this series of articles she shares what we need to know about the plant, and about a treatment that a rancher discovered that just may be a solution.

How My Grazing Plan Helped When Everything Went Wrong

Troy has been sharing how he extends his grazing season every year thanks to charting his management. But this fall Mother Nature threw him a big curve with rain 28 days out of 40 and a killing frost that came a month late. Here's how he made it through.

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