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Winter care for your horses

February 1, 2011

Winter’s short days and long, cold nights often bring less outdoor activity and more time to rest, physically and mentally. Both man and beast benefit from rest and recuperation.

Getting a leg up on genetic defects

February 1, 2011

Stew Nelson

Quite a few years back, when I had ground leased in several locations, I found myself with some extra pasture. This was well before the crisis in genetic defects ever came into view on this side of the horizon. I had a friend with some registered Shorthorns who was short of feed. We got together and he shipped a load down to me and I had that extra pasture problem just go away.

Just dropping by: The right wish for Valentine's Day

February 1, 2011

The store windows are full of red lacy hearts, Cupids with arrows, and boxes of chocolates. It’s time for that wonderful lovers’ day called Valentine’s Day. I used to hate Valentine’s. It was a day of frustration and emptiness. As a spinster of 38, I hadn’t had much experience with Cupid. My friends got chocolates, flowers, and dates.

On the Edge of Common Sense: My old Martin

February 1, 2011

Baxter Black

I can’t remember how many songs Martin wrote, probably half of my notebook full of livin’ room hits! I guess nobody knew me as well as Martin. All those sad love songs, honky tonk songs, funny ones, bluegrass, country, cowboy, even the occasional gospel song, he heard first.

Know your synchronization protocols

February 1, 2011

Clifford Mitchell

Synchronization programs for artificial insemination (AI) have changed a little over the years. Experience and improvements to the synchronization technology probably have modified these programs enough to where almost any outfit can adapt to a protocol, depending on time and labor resources.

Feeding the world is focus of Alltech's 2011 lecture series

January 31, 2011

Emily Caldwell Gwin

In less than 40 years, there will be 9.3 billion people on this earth. And, obviously, those people need to be fed. But 2050 will also mean less land, less water and likely a continued unstable world economy.

Intervet-SP issues new release of Vista vaccine

January 27, 2011

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is reintroducing to the United States market the Vista® vaccine line, which provides beef cattle veterinarians and producers with the most complete protection available against the most common and costly bovine respiratory and reproductive diseases.

January cattle report: New year shows no slowdown

January 26, 2011

Feeder cattle demand, trading activity, and price levels for the opening month of 2011 were all unprecedented with feeder cattle over 600 pounds trading $7 to $15 higher and calves under 600 pounds selling $13.00 to $18 higher than 2010’s closing markets. Market watchers basically ran out of superlatives to use in trying to describe January’s feeder markets; most are down to just saying that they never saw anything like it, but the reality is – no one has ever saw anything like it before.

Intermountain Rangeland Symposium: Don't be afraid of beef technology

January 20, 2011

When technology is mentioned for computers, medicine or media, it is roundly applauded by society. But when a breakthrough is made in livestock production, technology is unfairly labeled a factory-farming ploy that’s harmful to the consumer, said Gary Sides, a beef cattle nutritionist for Pfizer Animal Health.

Intermountain Rangeland Symposium: Agencies still behind on wolf impact

January 20, 2011

Casey Anderson, manager of the OX Ranch near Bear, Idaho, doesn’t measure the recovery of wolves in the same perspective as federal agencies, which follow merely the number of dens and pups.

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