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Reducing mature weight and increasing cow productivity

By Mark Johnson, Oklahoma State University Extension The increasing mature weight of beef cows in the United States is concerning. Larger cows have higher nutrient requirements. Improving the efficiency, sustainability and profit potential of commercial cow calf production involves reducing feed costs while improving pounds of calf weaned. Reducing the mature weight of beef cows […]

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A walk across the Cheshire Plain, the 200-million-year-old landscape where yesterday’s old industrial sites are today’s nature reserves

Fiona Reynolds heads out for a walk on the Cheshire Plain, where industry and farming are juxtaposed to startling effect. The Cheshire Plain has always, to me, evoked dairy farming. Its huge, flat landscape is neatly enclosed by hedgerows and interspersed with tall, handsome red-brick farmhouses, a sign of a prosperous farming past. It’s still like […]

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Collaboration studies cause, development of liver abscesses in cattle

Scientists from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Texas Tech University, Kansas State University, and West Texas A&M University are collaborating on finding reliable and repeatable liver abscess models to learn the triggers in cattle that not only negatively impacts animal well-being but also causes liver condemnations and may lead to increased carcass trimming and […]

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