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Manure/silage/debris forks for John Deere Series loaders
Worksaver, Inc. has expanded its line of manure/silage/debris forks with new models designed to fit John Deere 200/300/400/500 Series loaders.
These manure/silage/debris forks pick up manure, matted straw and other loose materials for easy cleanup.
Every Christmas I look forward to getting a traditional card from a ranch family, in which every member is mounted on a good-looking quarter horse with a silver bit in its mouth.
So you can imagine my dismay when their 2011 Christmas card arrived and they were all mounted on a lazy man’s horse ... an ATV. What is the world coming to?
I just don’t get it. The opportunity to ride a horse for a living is why many of us got into the cattle business to begin with.
As the winter and spring bull-buying season approaches, seedstock purchasers should do their homework to help ensure the bulls they purchase this year meet their needs.
Lassen County, California, is bigger than Rhode Island, but what isn’t? And it has less people than the average funeral in New Orleans.
It is famous for its volcano and Western tradition. Joy and her husband run cows, guide hunters and rent cabins at their ranch near Butte Creek.
It was nighttime, two days before hunting season, and two poachers were butchering a deer hangin’ in a tree down by the road.
The Supreme Court has blocked a California law that would require euthanizing downed livestock at federally inspected slaughterhouses to keep the meat out of the nation's food system.The high court ruled that the state's 2009 state law was blocked from going into effect by federal law administered by the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The beef checkoff’s Research, Education and Innovation (REI) programs manage the safety, human nutrition and product enhancement research, as well as the Beef Quality Assurance, Beef Innovations Group and Culinary Innovations programs that provide the tools, technologies and knowledge to all sectors of the supply chain, thereby facilitating improvements and increased understanding of beef products offered to the public.
Not only did feeder cattle markets make it through the holidays unscathed, but prices soared even higher once livestock marketing returned to normal levels.
Unseasonably mild weather to open the winter season added fuel to the demand fire that raged inside calf buyers as virtually no fundamental hurdles can be seen to impede continued market improvement.
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Australian beef producers will go into breeding overdrive in 2012, according to the latest national forecasts. Early reports suggest the national cattle herd will increase 5 percent by the end of this calendar year to 30.2 million head.
If that growth can be achieved, assuming favorable seasonal weather conditions persist across the country, it will put cattle numbers at a 34-year high.
For many years, producers have heard that tightening up your calving season can be beneficial. University research centers have also stressed that a tighter calving season improves efficiency on the operation.
While a few inches of rainfall these last few months may have provided a reprieve from the drought and pastures might be greening up – there is no doubt 2011 was a challenging year.
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