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Equipment and/or visual aids will be used to explain how on-farm greenhouse gas emissions from soil and from animals are measured, as well as the type of equipment used, how it works, how long it takes and more.

Making management decisions for drought mitigation are never easy. However, having a plan in place early in the grazing season is likely to result in a more positive outcome than taking a wait and see approach and being forced to be reactive.

Over the last few months, I have been able to talk with a lot of cattle producers at Extension programs.

The secondary magnesium (Mg) deficiency referred to as grass tetany is often associated with “going to grass” when cows are grazing lush, cool-season grasses, including small cereals and bromegrass.

In the absence of an obvious epidemic, many farmers are hesitant to collaborate with government agencies for surveillance programs due to past negative experiences or fears of economic losses.

The report includes a bonus page about TGEV, including details on four years without a single positive case. More than 176,000 cases were submitted across six VDLs, with more than 500,000 RT-PCRs performed and not a single PCR-positive TGEV case.

The herd rebuild could be here.

For the past 81 years, faculty and staff at the University of Florida Range Cattle Research and Education Center have hosted Ona Field Day to update ranchers and land managers with the latest scientific information.

The study found that frequent calf introductions and purchasing animals from auctions or calf dealers were the two biggest risk factors for S. Dublin in dairy-beef farms.

“Bred heifers should have been pregnancy-checked within 90 days after the beginning of the breeding season as well as within 30 days prior to sale,” says Davis.