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Basic Beef Cattle Nutrition |
| This factsheet, from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, provides a basic overview of beef cattle nutrition |
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Beef Cattle Feed Requirements |
| This document discusses feed requirements and provides a table of the amount of feedstuffs needed for various livestock systems. |
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Beef Cow Nutrition Guide |
| From K-State Research and Extension, this downloadable publication gives the biological priority for nutrients of a beef cow. Shows how to meet the animal's needs, while maintaining a minimal cost. |
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Body Condition : the Beef Cow's Energy Gauge |
| Briefly describes how to judge a cow's body condition, the use of body condition scoring, the effects of body condition on calving and how to feed according to body condition. This tool can also be used to monitor the nutritional status of beef cows. |
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Drylot Backgrounding and Finishing Beef |
| Finishing beef in large commercial feedlots is very common. This budget represents a producer that buys calves and then backgrounds and finishes them and thus is more typical a farmer-feeder type of operation as opposed
to a commercial feedlot. This budget uses projected 2010 input and output prices for illustrative purposes. Individual producers should use their own prices and costs, and adjust
production factors to match their individual situations. The breakeven price is particularly sensitive to changes in feed and feeder prices. |
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Guidelines for Use of Distiller’s By-Products |
| A brief explanation of distiller's by-products with factors to think about before using them for feed. Written by Dr. Chris Reinhardt from the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University. |
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Management Software Tools |
| These software tools, from The Beef Cattle Institute, are in a variety of formats and include calculators for cow/calf producers, feed lots, marketing, and nutrition. |
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Manipulation of grass supply to meet demand |
| Grazed grass is generally the cheapest form of feed available for beef and milk production in Ireland. Grass growth is variable during the year with a peak in May/June and a secondary peak in August. There is poor synchrony between grass supply and feed demand on beef and dairy farms.
This project examined the possibility of reducing the grass growth peak in May/June and increasing grass supply later in the year by altering nitrogen application pattern and extending autumn rotation lengths. |
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Medicated Feed Additives for Beef Cattle and Calves |
| The purpose of this
bulletin is to explain the
regulations regarding the use of medicated feed additives
and to provide a list of approved drugs and drug
combinations, use levels, and indications for use of
medicated feed additives for beef cattle and calves. |
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Myths about Sorghum Grain Feed as a Feedstuff |
| Discusses the benefits of using sorghum (milo) as feed for ruminants, swine, and poultry. This series of slides by Dr. Chris Reinhardt from the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University highlights nutrition, processing, and compares sorghum to corn. |
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Nitrates in Livestock Feeding |
| This publication, from University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, describes symptoms, causes, prevention and treatment of nitrate poisoning in livestock. |
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Questions and Answers on Beef Cattle Nutrition |
| This Kansas State University Cooperative Extension publication answers questions about roughages; crude protein and urea; concentrates and grain processing; vitamins, minerals and water; additives and implants; and commercial supplements. |
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Redefining Feedlot Efficiency |
| This slide presentation from Chris Reinhardt of the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University discusses feedlot efficiency in times of rising prices for things like corn and oil and alternatives to current management practices. |
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Utilization of Corn Co-Products in the Beef Industry |
| Corn milling co-products are expected to increase dramatically in supply. Forage fed situations will be covered with dried co-products as this will be the most common application for both energy and protein supplementation in many forage feeding situations. |
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