Cattle

Find articles on managing your cow-calf operation, including herd management, grazing systems, handling advice, and calving tips. This section also covers cattle equipment and products.

Cattle lessons in coronavirus

It’s a scourge to baby calves, but not likely to jump from cattle to humans.

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Pasture bloat in cattle

When you’re gassy you’re uncomfortable. Cattle get that way too and it can be very serious. Know the signs of bloat and what to do.

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Hair scoring the cows

Cattle are supposed to shed their winter coats. Hair scoring your cows is a tool to select heat-tolerant animals.

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Ageless Iron

Caterpillar 30 is a family mainstay

By Ageless Iron

Tractor has been on the same California farm since 1932.

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All Around the Farm

Heavy-duty welding boom has reach

By All Around the Farm

With a 20-foot-long jib boom and rolling dolly, the wire feeder and gun will reach outside the shop and inside a trailer.

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Developing a strategy to reduce soil compaction

By Successful Farming TV Show

When soil suffers compaction, myriad challenges arise. On the surface, appearances can be deceiving on the extend of the damage.

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The cost of cow depreciation

Cow depreciation isn’t an expense that’s often thought of in a cow-calf operation. Here's how to figure it out.

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What do plant closures mean to the U.S. food supply?

Ag companies will start to look at their inventory levels going forward.

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JBS tells 6,000 beef workers to self-quarantine

Meatpacker JBS USA said it will close its cattle slaughter plant in Greeley, Colorado, until April 24 while its 6,000 employees self-quarantine.

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Proper Calf Injections

New calves need their shots. Giving the injections correctly is a critical control point in beef production and animal health.

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The sizzle before the steak

Each spring, the plumes of smoke rise above the Kansas horizon. They are from Kansas ranchers burning the native pasture.

Pasture burning in the Kansas Flint Hills.

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Meat prices spike, cattle prices fall, and ranchers and lawmakers see market manipulation

Wholesale beef prices have jumped to record levels, as shoppers stockpile meat in response to the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Tip of the Day

Agronomy Tip: Combine yield map and soil compaction data

This fall, measure soil compaction in your fields with a soil penetrometer and match the data with yield maps.

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Farmers Edge unveils Hail Detection and Report Tool

U.S. farmers feel slightly better about the ag sector’s economy, survey shows

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Cattle lessons in coronavirus

Pasture bloat in cattle