MAKING SENSE OF YOUR NEXT GENERATION COW HERD

 MAKING SENSE OF YOUR NEXT GENERATION COW HERD By Trudy Ohlde - Ohlde Cattle Co Truly focusing on the female. The livelihood of the commercial man or woman depends on their cowherd.What is the best direction to take your cow herd in the near future? Decisions made this breeding season can affect your...

Cattle ID Methods, From Branding to Tagging

 Cattle ID Methods, From Branding to Tagging. By Heather Smith Thomas. Hot iron brands have been the standard and legal way to identify ownership of cattle, but many other identification systems are often used for individual identification and herd records – such as freeze branding, ear tags,...

Taking Predator Control into Consideration

 Taking Predator Control into Consideration. By Jaclyn Krymowski For as long as humans have kept domestic animals, there we’ve had conflicts with whatever local wildlife we must inevitably coincide with. Although we have modernized and found better ways to protect our livestock than primitive...

Liberty Safe: Protecting the American Dream for 30 Years

 Liberty Safe: Protecting the American Dream for 30 Years. Article and photos courtesy of Liberty Safe. For all intents and purposes, Liberty Safe is the epitome of the American dream. From building just six safes each day in 1988 to becoming the industry leader in safe engineering and technology,...

Maximize A.I. Success with Proper Semen Handling

 Maximize A.I. Success with Proper Semen Handling By Jaclyn Krwmowski There’s absolutely no doubt about it, we’ve come a very long way in our bovine reproduction technologies. From the early research done in the early 1900s to the process becoming more mainstream in the 1940s, a lot of the A...

Gender Selection Technology Grabs Attention of Cattle Industry.

 Gender Selection Technology Grabs Attention of Cattle Industry.  Sex sorted semen has enjoyed an increasingly popular place in the dairy industry’s reproduction and herd management programs over the past decade and a half. Now the beef industry is embracing sexed semen as producers realize its ability...

Employment Opportunities for College Graduates

 Employment Opportunities for College Graduates in Food, Agriculture, Renewable Natural Resources, and the Environment  By Allan D. Goecker, Purdue University • Ella Smith, U.S. Food and Drug Administration • J. Marcos Fernandez, Purdue University • Ray Ali, U.S. Department of Agriculture,...

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