Articles by Woody Lane

Minerals

Please pass the salt

April 23, 2021
Woody Lane
Salt, minerals … minerals, salt … aren’t these the same things? Everyone, it seems, has a question about minerals, like “Why do some mixtures contain only 4 percent salt while others contain 90 percent salt?” or “Why won’t my animals eat it?”
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On the shoulders of giants

March 12, 2021
Woody Lane
We take so many things for granted in agriculture we don’t even realize that, once upon a time, these things did not exist. Someone, somewhere, created or discovered each one – and over the years, we’ve tended to forget those achievements.
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Cattle grazing

Two cultures

December 1, 2020
Woody Lane
This is a bit of a controversial topic: science versus practice. Dear Reader, if you feel comfortable with a passionate examination of a controversy, please read on. Because I’d like to visit about an emerging situation in the grazing world.
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The vitamin that’s more than a vitamin

October 19, 2020
Woody Lane
We hardly even think about vitamin D anymore. It’s one of those vitamins we routinely add to feeds, an inscrutable listing of international units (IUs) on the feed tag. And as for our children, we simply irradiate the milk.
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Couch potato cattle

Couch potato cattle that chew their cud slowly

September 24, 2020
Woody Lane
Have you yet come across the acronym RFI? Of course, you say, as you run and check the internet: Radio France Internationale, request for information, the RFI app for Android smartphones and also RFI Corp., a high-tech electronics company in the aerospace industry.
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Horses grazing

Not horsing around

August 31, 2020
Woody Lane

A few years ago, I visited the beautiful area around Lexington, Kentucky, and spent time looking at, well, horses. And pastures. I saw fields of early spring grass with lots of horses playing and galloping.


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Brixit

March 31, 2020
Woody Lane
In a wide array of agricultural publications, I’ve been reading about something called “Brix.” As in: We need “high Brix levels in our forages” to support good cattle growth.
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