University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Beef Team Annual Beef Heifer Replacement Forecast for 2022 Production Season
What is a respectable beef replacement heifer value for the coming 2022 production season?
Spanish:Planning for Spring Annual Forages
While we are still early in the new year, it is time to start planning and thinking about any spring annual forages that we might plant. Part of the process may be anticipating a need for extra feed or booking seed early for possible discounts.
Spanish:2022 Beef Feedlot Roundtables in Bridgeport, North Platte, West Point
Beef feedlot managers, owners, employees and allied industries will learn new information related to feedlot price reporting, health, labor and sustainability at Nebraska Extension’s 2022 Beef Feedlot Roundtables Feb. 22-24 in Bridgeport, North Platte and West Point.
Spanish:Cow Nutrition Considerations at Calving and Early Lactation
This article was originally featured in Progressive Cattle.
Spanish:The Value of Hay as Fertilizer
This time of year, many producers are feeding cows hay. Have you ever stopped to think about what the dollar value of the nutrients in the hay are worth as fertilizer once they have been processed by the cow?
Mature cows at maintenance should excrete 100% of the nutrients they consume in terms of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
Spanish:Feedlots Towards Estimated National Herd Contraction
This article was first published by In the Cattle Markets on Jan. 18, 2022.
Spanish:Silage for Beef Cattle Conference: Small Grain Silage Set for March 17th
Attend in-person or online to learn how to reduce costs and improve feed quality of small grain silages.
Nebraska Extension, Lallemand Animal Nutrition and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach are hosting the fourth Silage for Beef Cattle Conference on March 17, 2022. This year the focus is on how to get the most out of small grain silages. Registration is free and producers have the option to either stream the conference online or attend in-person at the Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center in Ithaca, Neb.
Spanish:Updated Nebraska Cow Herd System Budgets Available Now
Practices, conditions, and prices change. Therefore, enterprise budgets must be updated at least annually. Several of the geographically representative Nebraska cow herd budgets produced by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln were updated over the past several months. Primarily, feed and cattle prices were updated, with three additional budgets completed.
Spanish:Current Drivers and Atypical Seasonal Patterns in the Cull Cow Cutout
This article was first published by In the Cattle Markets on Dec. 7, 2021
Spanish:The Impact of Price and Management on Culling Decisions
The following is a summary of the webinar “The Impact of Price and Management on Culling Decisions” given on November 4, 2021, as part of the Center for Agriculture Profitability weekly webinar series housed in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. This webinar can be viewed here, with an accompanying podcast above.
Spanish:LRP Insurance for Fed Cattle and Put Options: Farmer-Feeder Considerations
This article was first published in the November 2021 edition of RightRisk News
Spanish:Cow-Calf College to be held January 25th
Cow-Calf College is gearing up to be hosted January 25th at the Clay County Fairgrounds from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm in the Activities Building. Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. This year’s program will be offered in a hybrid format through zoom and attendance in person. The focus of the 2022 Cow-Calf College will start with an in-depth look at eastern redcedar control in the morning, an update by beef cow-calf specialist, Kacie McCarthy and a special presentation by Tom Field focusing on ways to engage youth in the beef industry.
Spanish:How to Develop a Custom Calving Agreement
Calving someone else’s cows or heifers can be a great enterprise for a beginning rancher, a method to reduce the overhead cost of facilities and equipment, and a strategy for marketing feed. Or, having someone else calve some or all of your cowherd can reduce labor and stress and allow for an operation to remain sustainable or expand if skilled seasonal labor is limited.
Having a simple and straightforward agreement in writing can be the difference between disagreement and disappointment and a satisfying experience for both parties involved.
Spanish:Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software (CHAPS) Benchmark Data – A Review
The 2021 North Dakota Livestock Research Report includes an article on the North Dakota State University CHAPS data recording software program that works with cow-calf producers to enter and store cow herd production information and then provides a framework to analyze and compare data to other herds in the program. The CHAPS program began in 1985 with the intent to help producers set goals and then manage herds to achieve these goals.
Spanish:Differences Between High-, Medium-, and Low-Profit Cow-Calf Producers: An Analysis of 2016-2020 Kansas Farm Management Association Cow-Calf Enterprise – A Review
This study by Dustin L. Pendell Ph.D. and Kevin L. Herbel can be found at the Kansas State University AgManager.info website. Review and summary by Aaron Berger, Nebraska Extension Educator.
Spanish:Know Your Numbers, Know Your Options
The next session of “Know Your Numbers, Know Your Options,” Nebraska Extension’s four-part record-keeping course, will be held virtually from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. central time on January 18, 20, 25, and 27.
Participants should plan on attending each of the four workshop dates. The course requires participants to have an internet connection.
Spanish:Three-State Beef Conference: Long-term Planning for the Cow Herd
Winter Supplementation of Beef Calves – When Supplementation Doesn’t Pay
Spring born calves are often weaned in the fall, supplemented through the winter at a low rate of gain, and then graze summer grass, taking advantage of compensatory gain until feedlot entry. Many producers assume providing minimal protein supplementation to target approximately 1.0 pound/day gain during the winter is the most economical system. However, research data would suggest this assumption is not the most economical management system.
Spanish:The Third Quarterly Report on Levels of Negotiated Trade by Region Under the Industry’s 75% Rule
Cost and Value of Gain for Retained Feeder Cattle in Nebraska
The fall run of feeder cattle is underway across the United States. Producers are now left with the decision to retain or sell weaned calves. A financially sound business decision is one where what it costs me to put on weight is less than what the market is willing to pay me to put it on. While that decision is straightforward, some limiting factors can impact these calculations.
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