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Calculating cattle winter supplementation costs
Learn how to determine the nutritional value of forage, how to choose necessary supplements and how to determine supplement costs.
Definition of a blue moon might surprise some
Blue moon/you saw me standing alone/without a dream in my heart/without a love of my own. — Lyrics from a 1934 song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart There was a full moon Nov. 21. No big deal, you say, there’s a full moon in most every month. However, this one is what the Maine
Co-products, cornstalk residue cut cow feed costs
URBANA — University of Illinois researchers recently discovered that feeding co-products and cornstalk residue in the winter can save cow-calf producers up to $1 per day per cow as compared to feeding hay. Feed costs continue to be the number one detriment to profitability in cow-calf operations. With feed comprising 60 percent of a producer’s
Good news for the cattle industry
URBANA, Ill. — Better days are likely ahead for the cattle industry, according to a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist. “As numbers keep dropping, producers adjust inventories downward in the face of high feed and forage prices,” said Chris Hurt. “At mid-year, the number of all cattle and calves was modestly lower than the two
Amid severe rain, keep planting dates in mind
Amid rainy period, a reminder of acreage reporting dates.
Don’t miss these acreage reporting deadlines
Failed acreage must be reported to FSA before destroying and replanting to allow time for a field check.
Enterprise Budgets are starting points
Budgeting helps guide you through your decision making process as you attempt to commit resources to the most profitable enterprises on the farm. Crops or livestock? Corn, soybeans or wheat? We can begin to answer these questions with well thought out budgets that include all revenue and costs. Without some form of budgeting and some
Read it Again: Week of June 5, 2003.
Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Will it work to pay farmers to sequester carbon?
Farmers enrolled in the Soil Health Partnership program can participate in a carbon reduction incentive system, in which growers are paid by corporations to sequester carbon in their soil.
Farm and Dairy’s week in review: 8/30
The top stories from the week August 24-30, 2014.
