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Calving Ease, Growth, Marbling – What Do You Need For Your Winning Team?

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Once the tallest player in the NBA, Yao Ming measures at an astounding 7 feet, 6 inches tall. His height and athletic ability led...

Is There a Way to Maximize the Value of Your Cull Cows?

Kathy Voth - 0
Cull cows - every operation has them. They're the cows that are not pregnant at weaning time. The typical strategy for many spring-calving cow-calf...

Low-Stress Management Improves Post-Weaning Calf Health

Whit Hibbard - 0
Thanks to Dawn Hnatow for co-authoring this article! A few weeks ago we discussed fenceline weaning as one low-stress way to wean calves. The next...

We Know Honey Bees Are Dying, But Where Are They Doing Well?

Kathy Voth - 0
Noah Wilson-Rich starts his June 2018 Ted Talk with some startling statistics: in 2017 we lost 40% of our beehives in the United States,...

Be Careful What You Wish For

Kathy Voth - 0
As the Rolling Stones sing, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you find you get what you need!"   Only...

Comparing the Cost of Amending Soil With Fed Hay to Buying and Spreading Compost

Kathy Voth - 4
I wrote this piece three years ago and never published it because...oh my gosh the math is daunting! And what if I got it...

When High Density Hurts: Remediating Overgrazed Land

Meg Grzeskiewicz - 1
I am a complete believer in mob (high-density rotational) grazing. I have seen marginal land explode with productivity and vigor after a properly orchestrated...

Tips for Squeezing Every Drop of Profit From Your Small Ruminant Herd

Sandra Kay Miller - 1
There used to be a time when keeping a respectable flock of sheep or herd of goats offered an acceptable return by simply sending ...

Soil Health Isn’t Free – Incorporating Livestock Can Reduce Economic Risk

Kathy Voth - 0
Keeping soils covered is one of the keys to soil health, and cover crops are often promoted as a good way to prevent erosion...

Ranching By Number

John Marble - 0
  On more than one occasion I have made disparaging comments about the tendency of our ranching industry to waste time gathering data. We keep...

A Profile In Soil Health – A Rancher Feeds the Above- and Below-Ground Livestock

Kathy Voth - 0
“All the different bugs of the soil...are disassembling a complex item that the cow put on the ground, and they’re taking that back...

What Happens If We Don’t Kill Predators?

Kathy Voth - 0
Thanks to Randy Comeleo, Program Advisor for the Agriculture and Wildlife Protection Program, Benton County, Oregon, for helping with this article. Last week's article, "Coyotes...

The Sex Life of the Screwworm Fly: How an Odd-Sounding Study Saved Ranchers Billions

Kathy Voth - 1
The screwworm is a horrible livestock pest that most of us have never heard of thanks to the work of two scientists.

1-Strand Sheep Fencing – How We Made It Work For Our Operation

Greg Judy - 13
When we bought our first flock of sheep 16 years ago we had 12 leased farms and were being overrun with sprouts and weeds....

Spelling Errors

Kathy Voth - 1
We all try so hard, and yet....
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