Grazing residual affects everything in the pasture. What is residual? Residual is the living plant material remaining after a grazing event. Residual is often confused with residue, which is the dead plant material on the soil surface. While residue definitely has its benefits, residual is everything.

Performance of stockers and growers is very closely related with feed intake and feed quality. This is just as true with grazing livestock as it is in a feedlot setting. Pasture and grazing management are vitally important to feed intake and forage quality.

The 2016 Idaho Range Livestock Symposium was a big success. The traveling symposium was held April 19 in Marsing, April 20 in Twin Falls, April 21 in Challis, and concluded with a range tour in the Challis area on April 22.

Stock trailers are an essential tool in every beef cattle operation. They provide the ability to transport cattle and horses to various locations on the ranch, to distant pastures or to market.

High feed prices often force cow-calf producers to search for lower-cost feed alternatives in order to stretch existing hay and forage supplies. Grazing crop residues, such as grain fields that have been irrigated after harvest or cornstalk residue, is common.

Common to many cattle producers around the world is the fear of wasting grass. “No blade left behind” could be a resounding chorus.

Common vaccine handling practices can have an effect on beef carcass quality. Most livestock producers are now aware of the potential for tissue damage, lesions or other carcass defects that can occur when vaccines are administered.

, is currently trending as one of the most-read A.I. and Breeding articles. to jump to the article. Summary: University of Idaho’s K. Scott Jensen explains that every person on the dairy responsible for heat detection should follow the same decision-making process every day with every cow. The key to developing a system for getting cows bred is consistency, he says.