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American Cattlemen October 2024
This Issue Brings You:
- Backgrounding Calves
- Don’t Stress About Cold Stress
- The Perfect Cattle Working Chute for Up-and-coming Ranchers is Finally Here
- The Need for Feed Supplements
- Podcast Profile
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The Perfect Cattle Working Chute for Up-and-coming Ranchers is Finally Here
The Perfect Cattle Working Chute for Up-and-coming Ranchers is Finally Here Article and photos courtesy of Arrowquip For new cattle ranchers, finding the perfect cattle chute for your operation can be intimidating with so many options on the table, but it’s also an exciting time. You get to make an investment on equipment that will […]
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Backgrounding Calves
Backgrounding Calves By Heather Smith Thomas Backgrounding simply means growing calves bigger (after weaning) before they go into a finishing program. Some producers hold their calves to sell later as yearlings, and some buy light calves in the spring to put on grass in a stocker program and grow to a larger weight. Some put […]
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Merck Animal Health Partners with the American Association of Bovine Practitioners Foundation to Award Scholarships to Future Bovine Veterinarians
Nine veterinary students honored at the recent AABP Annual Conference RAHWAY, N.J., Sept. 17, 2024 – Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), today announced it has awarded $90,000 in scholarships to nine future bovine veterinarians […]
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Beef Promotion Operating Committee Approves Fiscal Year 2025 Checkoff Plan of Work
Beef Promotion Operating Committee Approves Fiscal Year 2025 Checkoff Plan of Work DENVER, Colo. (Sept. 9, 2024) – The Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) will invest approximately $38 million into programs of beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing, and producer communications during fiscal 2025, subject to USDA approval. In action at the end of its […]
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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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