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American Cattlemen January 2025
This Issue Brings You:
- Try This Simple Stocking Rate Assessment as You begin Regenerative Ranching
- Caring for Abandoned and Orphaned Calves
- 12 Things to Consider Before Building a Cattle Handling Facility
- Smart Ways to Manage Cattle – EID & Precision Scales
- Corteva Introduces NovaGraz™ Herbicide
- Podcast Profile
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Why Most Manual Cattle Chutes Fail. Is There a Solution?
Kaydence Michalsky | December 2024 From RFID tags to automatic milking systems and hormone implants, there have been countless advancements within the cattle industry over the years. However, one piece of equipment has remained all too similar, with very few advancements: the manual cattle chute. Designed to help operators restrain cattle for safe handling purposes, […]
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Protecting Your Assets
Article by Maura Keller When Jeff Vogel, president of RWV Land & Livestock in Jackson, New Jersey, first considered incorporating security and surveillance cameras on his farm, he was focused on addressing a few key issues – namely, monitoring the health and wellbeing of his livestock, streamlining the process of well checks for cows in […]
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Winner of Merck Animal Health-MJE Livestock Equipment Sweepstakes Announced
Winner of Merck Animal Health-MJE Livestock Equipment Sweepstakes Announced Billings, Montana – Merck Animal Health and MJE Livestock Equipment are proud to announce Wyatt Donald of Cayuse Livestock Co., Melville, Montana, as the winner of the 2024 Merck Animal Health Celebration Day Sweepstakes. Wyatt’s prize—a Conquistador Select Wheel Corral from MJE Livestock Equipment—was picked up […]
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Pasture – First Focus in 2025 can Boost the Bottom Line
Although the outlook for the cattle industry remains strong, several factors continue to weigh on herd rebuilding and expansion. Chief among them is the ongoing and spreading drought, along with the impending La Nina winter that likely will push those dry conditions into new areas. Despite those challenges, Sam Ingram, Ph.D., Range & Pasture field […]
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Featured Story
Maximize Profitability with Wagyu
Beef Cattle producers are feeling more optimistic. With an El Nino winter forecasted, cattle producers are anticipating a reprieve from multi-year drought conditions. For consecutive years the beef cattle herd has been in decline due to environmental conditions. A March 2023 USDA report shows that since 2022, there has been a 4% decrease in beef cows, 6% decrease in replacement heifers, and 5% decrease in heifers expected to calve this year. According to another published USDA article, the latest cattle inventory peaked in 2019 at 94.8 million and has since plummeted 6% to 89.3 million this year. The rapid decline in beef cattle inventory over the past four years was driven by drought conditions; however Northern states experienced above average rainfall during the 2023 spring and summer months and in the coming months NOAA predicts a wetter-than-average winter in the southeastern United States, allowing calf producers in recovering areas to consider opportunities to rebuild their herd.
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