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When input and output prices change dramatically, it’s time to go back and crunch some numbers. That’s according to Galen Erickson, University of Nebraska feedlot specialist, who talked about everything from feedstuffs to growing and finishing decisions at the Feeding Quality Forums last month in La Vista, Nebraska, and Garden City, Kansas.
As a meat scientist, I try to be precise in referring to beef cuts. But at the same time, I must be aware of the alternative names for those cuts, which may have historical, regional or marketing significance. These common names could make them more identifiable to certain folks in certain scenarios.
What lengths would you go to for a new baler? To have a little fun, I posted this question on an ag online forum. Assuming cash was not involved, and tongue-in-cheek, one Missouri producer said, “My wife, my kids and the dogs – well, maybe not the dogs.
A key to profitable forage livestock production is to provide adequate nutrients for good forage growth. Fertility requirements for a hay or silage crop are vastly different than for grazed forages, even if the pasture and hay crops are the same species.
I’m sitting here looking at my “smartphone.” I’ve heard it said there is more technology and computing power in that phone than went to the moon on Apollo 13. But some days it doesn’t make me feel so smart.
In many areas of North America’s farm country, today’s farmers are contending with drought, depleted aquifers or demands on water from other forms of use.
A man of sincere beliefs, Neal Fehringer is not a fundamentalist. However, when it comes to producing forage crops, it is the fundamentals that have built and sustained his professional agronomy business in south-central Montana.
At some point, everyone wonders about the current state of technology in his life, and some conclude that mankind has peaked and will go no further. Charles H. Duell, who was the commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899, is famously credited with the following quote: “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” which, it turns out, he did not actually say – but the point is well taken.
