BROOKINGS, S.D. — Precise feed rations are critical to maintaining a healthy cattle herd in the most efficient way possible. Slick bunk management is the process of prescribing the appropriate amount ...

When it comes to nutritional management of growing and finishing cattle, the scientific aspects tend to get the most attention. Hours are spent getting the formulations right and debating the merits ...

Proper bunk management is the art of matching feed deliveries to the amount of feed cattle need for optimal performance. Underfeeding cattle results in poor gains and feed efficiency, longer days on ...

When it comes to nutritional management of growing and finishing cattle, the scientific aspects tend to get the most attention. Hours are spent getting the formulations right and debating the merits ...

Feed shrinkage is caused by many factors, including delivery weight errors, wind, birds, rodents, tires, tracked feed, cattle tossing feed, silage bunker losses, feed refusals, bunk heating and ...

Heifers can safely eat 20 percent less between weaning and breeding, according to a two-year study. Heifers being prepared for breeding don't have to eat like pigs, stuffing themselves at ...

I don`t know about you, but I have not enjoyed the recent 100 degree heat wave. Most likely, cattle in the area have not enjoyed it either. Cattle have a temperature comfort zone that ranges from zero ...

CRAWFORD - Farmhood Fields LLC, a proposed farm-to-table living community owned by Zeke Alenick, is suing the town over the right to build a cattle feed bunk on its Crans Mill Road property. Alenick ...

While it's not quite spinning straw into gold, Bob Batey is converting sawdust from his lumber mill into nutritious and palatable feed for his cattle. When Batey fills his feed bunks with the 70 ...

A New Mexico cattle producer has been feeding whole cottonseed for many years, and she believes other ranchers could also benefit from the additive. Alisa Ogden, Loving, New Mexico, lives on a ...

The view has changed in 145 years, since the first structure was built on a sprawling and open Kansas State University campus to teach students how to care for, breed and market livestock. While that ...