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Angus Beef Bulletin Nutrition topic page providing access to stories on forage, feedstuffs, supplementation, requirements and more.

Stop Reproductive Failure

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Higher input costs, calf prices double incentive to investigate cause of open cows.

Are Your Cows Running Out of Vitamin A?

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Months from green grass, stores in the liver may be running low.

Keep the Best Genetics in Your Herd with Heifer Development with Joe Gillespie

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Heifers are a big investment, so you want to set them up for success. With such a low cow herd number, heifer development is a big part of herd profitability. Miranda Reiman chatted with Joe Gillespie about sound heifer development to keep the best genetics in your herd for a long time. In this episode, learn about the three buckets of heifer development, the best timing of vaccinations for heifers, when heifers usually fall out of the herd, how to avoid that loss and more!

Care & Feeding of Young Bulls After Breeding Season

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Proper management of young bulls can help keep them in top form.

Keep the Cow Rumen Healthy in Drylot

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Maintaining a healthy cow herd means maintaining a healthy rumen. Here are some considerations for cows in drylot.

Feeding Soybean Hulls to Beef Cattle

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Usually, soyhulls are priced competitively to corn. To determine which is a better buy to feed cattle, compare them on a nutritional basis, especially looking at energy and protein.

Backgrounding at Different Rates of Gain

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Backgrounding at a high rate of gain produces cattle with higher gains and ending weights.

If You’ve Never Tested Forages, This is the Year to Start

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Unusual weather patterns prompt concern forages may not meet nutrient requirements.

The Green Vitamin

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Do pregnant cows need even more vitamin A?

Filling the Summer Forage Gap

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Warm-season annuals can provide needed forage during hot summer months or when renovating stands.

Feedstuff Finder Is One-stop Shop for Missouri Buyers and Sellers

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Sourcing feed products is made simple with cutting-edge platform for farmers, ranchers and suppliers.

Step Down Your New Bull’s Diet

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Bulls are often pushed nutritionally from weaning to sale. Here are tips to transition them to breeding season.

Caring for Bulls in the Winter

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K-State beef cattle experts share how to best manage bulls during this season.

Backgrounding Calves

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Managing a backgrounding operation may offer an easier way to get started in the cattle business.

3 Steps to Prepare for Winter Feeding

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Extension specialist offers tips for how to calculate how much hay your cows will eat this winter.

Supplement Delivery Methods for Weaned Calves

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Researchers compared calf gain and health response between three supplement delivery methods.

Sharing the Importance of Beef in a Healthy Diet

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Texas Tech’s Mark Miller helps lead research on supplementing human diets with healthy protein.

Mycotoxins Steal Profits

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Why mycotoxins are more prevalent today than ever before.

From the Field

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Notes from two very different regions on what to expect this winter.

Understand Forage Quality Analysis

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How to read a forage analysis. Definitions explained.

Cotton Byproducts in Beef Cattle Rations

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The benefits of cottonseed for cow-calf operations.

Betting On the Future

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Cattlemen across the country share how they plan for drought recovery.

Foot Rot in Cattle

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Husbandry and minerals can help prevent foot rot; treatment options discussed.

Flexibility and Smart Supplementation with Karla Wilke

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Flexibility means options, and today Karla Wilke, associate professor of range management and cow-calf specialist for the University of Nebraska, offers options for income generation and enterprises. She also shares research about smart supplementation, and how timing affects growth while saving you money.

Can You Program Fertility with Shelby Rosasco

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Replacement heifers are an incredibly important, yet expensive part of our operations. Wouldn't it be great if we could program fertility in our replacement heifers? Shelby Rosasco from the University of Wyoming tells us that nutritional management of weaned heifers can help program puberty attainment, fertility, and the ovarian reserve.

Get More Out of Fall and Winter Grazing

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Strip-grazing can increase carrying capacity, according to study from Nebraska Extension beef systems specialist.

Feeding Cracked Corn vs. Whole Corn

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Digestibility increases by 5% when corn is cracked, says Phillip Lancaster, K-State beef cattle nutritionist.

Backgrounded Cattle are a Special Breed

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As young calves begin to enter backgrounding programs, it’s time to consider your management protocols for incoming calves. Upon arrival, you need to ascertain a few things about these incoming calves: where they came from, if they were properly weaned/preconditioned and how they were transported, to name a few.

Program Your Calves for Success

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By changing the nutrition of the cow during pregnancy, you can change how her calf develops throughout its life. Steps you can take to make your calves the best they can be.

Managing Cow Body Condition is Critical for Profitability

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Body condition of cows during calving affects open rates in the upcoming breeding season.

Building a Better Cow with David Lalman

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In this episode of Angus At Work, David Lalman of Oklahoma State University discusses research to help build a better cow with host Miranda Reiman. Listen in as they discuss more efficient females and how to build a more self-sufficient herd.

Valuable at Any Stage

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Marketing calves? These strategies add value at any point in the cattle cycle.

Feeding Wheat Straw

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Wheat straw for beef cattle is an alternative for winter.

Asking the Right Cattle Nutrition Questions

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Information producers need to know about cattle nutrition, but may not have asked.

Products & Services

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A directory to suppliers providing products, services.

Sustainable Beef Production System Could Improve Profitability

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Research looks at whether we can improve cattle performance and soil fertility with the supplements we choose.

Balancing the Consumer & the Cow

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Today’s Angus At Work host Ron Hayes of the Radio Oklahoma Network sits down with panelists Jesse Luckie and Mark Johnson to discuss balancing consumer demand with a cow that can produce a quality product despite the environment she performs in.

Will Your Bulls Be Ready Come Turnout Time?

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When it comes to winter bull care, proper management can avoid heartache. Veterinarian Jeff Erquiaga shares advice in this Angus At Work feature.

Feeding Cornstalk Bales

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K-State cattle nutritionist explains how cornstalk bales can be a feed resource.

There Are Risks in Offering Wrapped Hay Bales to Cattle

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K-State beef cattle experts explain why cows need to be fed hay free of wrapping material.

A Deeper Dive

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Featuring “Angus At Work” episodes worth a revisit. Topics include using performance decisions to make better decisions, using ionophores to increase herd efficiency and starting discussions on succession planning.

Boosting Cow Herd Efficiency with Ionophores

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At #CattleCon24 Elanco’s Frank White sat down with Angus At Work host Shauna Hermel to discuss how adding ionophores to the diet can affect heifer maturity and cyclicity, as well as the overall productivity of your cow herd.

Gizmos & Gadgets

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Products and services for the farm and ranch, including a vertical tillage tool from Case IH, winter grain and forage seed varieties from Millborn, a reproduction-focused mineral from BioZyme, and a canine flue vaccine from Merck Animal Health.

Analyzing What’s Known About Experior

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Early reports of feedlot performance and carcass quality of cattle when feeding Experior.

Capitalize on Strong Calf Markets with Quality Weaning Nutrition

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The beef industry is beaming with optimism as cattle markets continue to climb, creating a prime opportunity to capture value. USDA projects cattle prices to rise into 2024 as fed-cattle supplies remain tight.

Managing Beef Cows During Cold Stress

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Once effective temperatures are below a cow’s lower critical temperature, she must generate additional heat just to maintain her body temperature. Here are tips for assessing what’s cold to a cow, how nutrient needs increase and what ration changes need to occur.

Limit-feeding Cows Corn as Alternative to Hay

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Corn can provide cost-competitive means of supplying energy to the beef herd.

Cotton Byproducts Aid Reproduction in Beef Cows

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Cottonseed and its byproducts contain a high amount of calcium and help fill in nutrient gaps left by other feed ingredients.