AgNIC Beef Cattle

Climate and Weather

Cold Stress and Newborn Calves

This South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service publication discusses calf survival in northern climates. Death losses after birth may be due to one or more of several factors including infectious agents, dystocia, genetic abnormalities, and environmental stress.

How Feeding-Site Mud and Temperature Affect Animal Performance

Livestock producers should make management decisions to minimize animal exposure to mud and provide protection from adverse weather to maximize animal performance.

OSU Weather

This free site provides timely and useful graphical and textual weather data to the general public.

Remote Winter Watering Systems for Beef Cattle

This document describes ways to provide water to the herd during the cold of a Manitoba winter

U.S. Drought Monitor

Joint project of the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), Climate Prediction Center (U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA/National Weather Service), National Climatic Data Center (DOC/NOAA), National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin

Jointly prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the bulletin provides a vital source of information on weather, climate and agricultural developments worldwide, along with detailed charts and tables of agrometeorological information that are appropriate for the season. The bulletin is posted every Wednesdays by 12 p.m. eastern time. Posting will occur on Thursday in the event a federal holiday falls on a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Data is available back to the 1970s through this site.