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Angus Journal Stories
management : genetics : feeding : animal health : reproduction/fertility : measuring
Angus Beef Bulletin Stories
management : genetics : feeding : reproduction/fertility : measuring : animal health
Angus Journal Stories
Management
Crucible for Quality
The Udder Issue
Udder and Teat Scoring
Causes of Lameness
Take Homes
Turning Agritourism into an Asset
Another Marketing Alternative
Bud Box Bonanza
Factors Affecting Beef Improvement
Docility Pays
Facility Fix-ups
Management Tips
Simplified Selection
Wean Early without Working Overtime
Location, Location, Location
Shade Benefits Well-Being, Performance
Livestock Fence and the Law
Tips for Building a Wire Gate
Temporary Fence
Been There, Done That
Building End Braces
Bull-Proof Fences
Interview Insight
Locker Beef
Practical Production, Business Tips
Cattlemen Seek Greener Pastures in Niche Market
A Useful Place to Calve
One Size Does Not Fit All
Re-evaluating Replacements
Reducing Pasture Road Erosion
SOP is Here
Advice to Bank On
Disasters Happen
Early Weaning Pays
Local Marketing Approach for High-Quality Cattle
When Sooner is Better – Early Weaning
Think Early
Drought Management Mistakes
Grain Prices Affect Entire Livestock Production Cycle
Commercial Connections
More Bang for the Buck
Keep Them Coming Back
Pasture Rent
Ultrasounding Heifers
Weed Hound
Adding Value with Carcass Quality
COOL Compliance
Reduce Stress, Increase Success
Windbreak Wisdom
A Shady Proposition
Lessons from the Weeds
Prevent Weed Invasions
Damp Hay a Fire Risk
Boosting Pasture Production
Managing Pasture Feeding Areas
Cool Those Cattle
Culling Cows with Carcass Data
College Gives Grads a Leg Up in Business
Handle with Care
The Functional Cow Primer
Management Tips for Calving
Networks for Sharing
The Forgotten Resources
Seeking Balance
Guard Against Hypothermia
Reducing the Risk of Calving Difficulty
Cut the Apron Strings
Defeat Lameness
Cesarean sections
Buying Breeding Stock?
Stubby, the Ugly Cow
Commonsense Calving Sites
From BIF: Biological Efficiency of Production
The Best Way to Handle a Hard Wean is to Avoid It
What's New in Heifer Development?
Udderly Beautiful
Turn a Profit
What’s High Quality Worth?
Research Tidbits (November 1999)
The Search for the Elusive Optimum Cow
Benchmarking your beef business
High Quality Doesn't Mean High Input
Marbling or Functionality? You Can Have It All
How cow size relates to efficiency
Icing on the Cake
Another perspective on milk production
The effects of early weaning
Bottomline Efficiency
Who Stays and Who Goes?
Benchmarking your cow herd
Do the Math
Early Weaning
The pros and cons of early weaning
A Matter of Priority
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Genetics
Taking the Next Step in Genetic Evaluation
Amidst the Bunkers
Bred Into Them
Science of Genetic Selection to Practical Application
Take Time, Do it Right
Genetics and Marbling
Understanding Accuracies
From Science to Reality
Genetics Policy Update
More Tools in the Female Selection Kit
DNA Testing is at Home on the Range
DNA Markers: Validation and Utilization
Protecting Purity
Star Search
Comprehensive Igenity Profile
Parentage to Tenderness
Evaluating Epigenetics
Advances in Genotyping
Computer Driven BRD Research
Genetic Imperatives
Selection Savvy
Genome Milestone
DNA Fingerprinting
Genetic Roadblocks
Constructing the Cattle Genome
Pinpointing Optimal Milk Levels
A Mother’s Contribution
Better Than Good
New Tools Address Cow-Calf Profitability
The Search for the Elusive Optimum Cow
How Much is Too Much?
Milk Quantity vs. Quality
Udderly Beautiful
Demystifying Mature Cow Size
Research Tidbits (November 1999)
High Quality Doesn't Mean High Input
Marbling or Functionality? You Can Have It All
How cow size relates to efficiency
Icing on the Cake
Another perspective on milk production
High EPDs Not Always Best in Genetic Improvement
Who Stays and Who Goes?
Do the Math
A Matter of Priority
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Feeding
More Cows, Better Grass
Alternative Energy
Beyond Hay and Cubes
Fall Armyworms
Tips for Controlling Grasshoppers
Graze Standing Corn for Forage Flexibility
Improving Pond or Stock Dam Water Quality
Mineral Sense
Nutrition Considerations for Early-Weaned Calves
Forages: The Key to Profitability
Get 'Em Eating
Managing the Grazing Wedge
Mastering Mob Grazing
Moderation is the Key
Never Too Late
Optimize Forage Production
Taking Advantage of What's Available
Meeting Your Bull's Nutritional Needs
Plant Summer Annuals for High-Value Hay, Grazing
Stop Stuffing Your Heifers
Kicking the Haying Habit
Strategies to Save Feed Dollars
Forage-Dependent Operation Tips
Don’t Stop Testing Forage
Stalk Up on Strip Grazing
Grain Prices Affect Entire Livestock Production Cycle
Feed to Lead
Cow-Calf Buffet
Yellow Star Thistle
Cull or Be Culled
Novel Fescue Stocker Strategy
Ammoniation Considerations
The Art of Buying Standing Hay
Basic Requirements
Close the Loop, Cut Your Costs
Heat & Fescue: Bad Combination for Heifers
Save Hay with Stockpiling
Alternative Grazing Systems
Short-Term and Supplemental Forages
Using Distiller’s Grains in Alternative Cow-Calf Production Systems
Forage Systems Reduce Winter Feeding Period
Determining Quality
Feed Prices May Encourage Creep Feeding
Peanuts
Rebalancing Grain Grazers
Grazing with Distiller’s Grains
Early High Starch Diet Critical to Carcass Quality
Managing Corn Coproducts in Feed Rations
An Economic Winter Alternative
Corn Coproduct Survival Guide
Drought Management Plan
Sweet Deal for Pasture Management
Using Corn CoProducts in Beef Cow Diets
Alternative Feeding Options
Supplement with Snacks
High Quality Doesn't Mean High Input
Marbling or Functionality? You Can Have It All
The effects of early weaning
Early Weaning
The pros and cons of early weaning
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Animal Health
Cryptosporidiosis
Animal Health, Genetics
Two-Stage Weaning
Ringworm
A Lousy Situation
Pay Attention to Parasites
Brucellosis Regulations Revised
Tracking the Traceability Effort
Prevent Downer Cow Marketings
Sun Sets on U.S. National Animal ID System
Calf Health at Half the Age
Improve Cattle Well-Being
Commonsense Investments in Herd Health
Helping Cattle Keep their Cool
One Health
Trich: Not Just a Western States Disease
The Sandhills Way
Alien Invaders: Fire Ants
Means to an End
Fight Frostbite
Tug of War over Animal Disease Research
The U.S. Prepares for Rift Valley Fever
Anthrax Overdramatized
Bovine Leukosis Virus
Controlling Trich
Don’t Stop Now
TB Troubles
Not Just a Texas Problem
There’s No Place Like Home
Johne’s Disease
It’s Not Rocket Science
Penny Wise, Dollar Foolish
Identifying BVD PI Negative Calves
Vaccines & Vaccination Schedules
Demand More from Your Vet
Keep Disease an Isolated Event
Health Programs for Beef Herds
Minimize Scours Outbreaks
Leptospirosis
BVD : It’s Time to Get Serious
Rx for Animal Health
Enemy Within (liver flukes)
Johne’s Remains a Concern
Leptospirosis
VS: An Unwelcome Visitor
Neospera Caninum
Persistent Infection with BVD
Attack BVD Head On
Declare War on Creeping, Crawling, Flying Pests
Beware of Internal Thieves
The Cattle Industry's Next Big Test
Is Your Herd BVD Free?
Trich is No Treat
Neonatal Care
What's Possible
Mastitis
Don't Be Blindsided by Pinkeye
Why Vaccinations Fail
Enemy Underfoot
Beware, Coccidia at Work
Gasping for Dollars
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Reproduction/Fertility
Consider Structural Integrity
Dos and Don'ts for Breeding Season
Advancement in Sexed Semen
Silent Partner
Understanding Females
Management Factors Affecting Fertility
Where Things Go Wrong
Smooth Working Lay-out Boosts AI Success
Improving Reproduction
Heifer Synchronization
Heifer Development
Fetal Programming
Scanning Heifers for Profit
Lipids and Reproduction: A Reality Check
Cow Herd Considerations
Culling Considerations
Fertility Factors
Managing Replacement Heifers for Reproductive Success
Cows that Work, Calves that Grade
Get Her Bred
ET Basics
Synchronization of Estrus in Mature Cows
Get Her Bred
Genetic Roadblocks
Up the Odds on Embryo Survival
Manage Replacement Heifers for Reproductive Success
Are Your Replacement Heifers Reproductively Ready?
Where Are We Going with Calving Ease?
The Fertility Protein
Smart Steps for Synchronization
The Search for the Elusive Optimum Cow
High Quality Doesn't Mean High Input
Marbling or Functionality? You Can Have It All
Will more milk mean cows won't rebreed?
How cow size relates to efficiency
Another perspective on milk production
Who Stays and Who Goes?
Do the Math
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Measuring
Contemporary Groups
The Stockman’s Eye
Pay Weight
Muscle
High EPDs Not Always Best in Genetic Improvement
Bottomline Efficiency
Who Stays and Who Goes?
Benchmarking your cow herd
Do the Math
Identify the Profit Makers, Robbers
Make Data Meaningful
Preparing for the Future
Fuel the Fires
Data, Information & Knowledge
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Angus Beef Bulletin Stories
Management
Hair-Coat Shedding
Going with the Flow Heifer Replacement
Fencing Fundamentals
Beef Processing 300
Hands-On Marketing
Optimal Milk Levels
Herd Records Produce Results
Range Beef Cow Symposium XX – Management Practices
Calving in the Cold
New Tools Address Cow-Calf Profitability
Trouble with Tetany
Consider Early Weaning
Pinpointing Optimal Milk Levels
Vaccination Basics
Cull Cow Checklist
Worry-Free Weaning
Creep-Feeding: The Debate Continues
Animal Health
BVDV Control Requires Integrated Approach
Healthy Calf, Healthy Profit
Break the Cycle
TB Troubles
Effects of BRD Vaccines Studied
Genetics
Angus Releases Heifer Pregnancy EPDs
$B Predictor of Value in Feeding Trial
Genetic Selection Skills
Arthrogryposis Multiplex Q&A
Range Beef Cow Symposium XX – Selection Decisions
Genetic Gains
Genetic Roadblocks
Profitability starts with the mama cow
Feeding
Unnecessarily at Odds
Stop Stuffing Your Heifers
Plant Summer Annuals for High-Value Hay, Grazing
Is Improved Pasture Economically Viable?
Feed to Potential
Stress: The Profit Killer
Hay Buying Strategies
Don’t Mess with Mold
So You Want to Feed Cattle?
Feed Efficiency: Unlocking Genetic Secrets
Cutting Feed Costs
Feeding Fat to Cows
Hungry Heifers
Limit-Fed, High-Grain Diets
Feeding Strategies in the Age of Ethanol
Nutrition for Replacement Heifers
Worry Free Weaning
Creep-Feeding: The Debate Continues
Reproduction/Fertility
Overcoming Obstacles to TAI
Proven Sires Create Top Calves, More Dollars
Rebreeding Reminders
Experts Explore Reproductive Technology
Cow Energy Value
Genetic Abnormality Tests
Replacing Palpation
Why Are my Cows Open?
Deciding When and What to Cull
Calving Management Tips
Optimize Reproduction
Rebreeding First-Calf Heifers
Nutrition for Replacement Heifers
Measuring
Breeding Systems Take Planning
Quality through cooperation
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