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Beef Livestock Notes

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Notes and information on beef and livestock production, pertaining to veteran and novice livestock agriculturalists alike.

• Added on: Feb 24th, 2009
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: WildRoseAggie
• Listed in: Science & Nature Agriculture
• Tags: beef agriculture cattle farming ranching livestock

Recent Posts

• Grass Morphology and Structure I

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 17:56 in development, growth, roots, emergence, seedling, grasses, forage, germination

  The following is an interesting read on grass morphology which explains growth, development, structure, and other facts on grasses that is of important use to any grass farmer.  Grasses are grouped into 650 and 785 genera containing around ...

• Grass-fed Livestock: the Philosophies and Forage/Pasture Management: Forage/Pasture Management II

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 13:59 in Management, agriculture, cattle, range, pasture, livestock, grassland, forage, beef cattle science

  The following is an excerpt from Forages: An Introduction to Grassland Agriculture, Chapter 1 pp. 5-7. Grassland AgricultureGrassland includes both pastureland an rangeland that is used for grazing and thus, in general, denotes all plant communi...

• Grass-fed Livestock; the Philosphies and Forage/Pasture Management: Forage/Pasture Management I

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 11:37 in forest, range, pasture, livestock, grass-fed, forage

  As I had mentioned before, being Grass-Fed can vary between extremist or not so much.  However, to complicate things, being Grass-Fed doesn't necessarily mean having the label grass-fed.  It has proven to be more of a religion than a means ...

• Grass-fed Livestock: the Philsophies and Forage/Pasture Management II: The Philosophies

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 13:49 in Management, cattle, range, pasture, livestock, grasses, grass-fed, aftermath grazing, intensive grazing, swath grazing, bale grazing

  There are many philosophies as to how livestock are raised, and that is as many as there are farmers and ranchers.  With the philosophies come with the many different management types, goals, objectives and incentives that are put into play in t...

• Grass-fed Livestock, the Philosophies and Forage/Pasture Management: A Breif History

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 13:46 in history, organic, agriculture, farming, today, oil and gas, grain, livestock, grass-fed, grain-fed

  The new movement towards organic agriculture is one filled with controversy.  From what I have been reading on different message boards organic agriculture is both controversial in crops and livestock enterprises.  There are folks that say ...

• Building and Equipment for Beef Cattle XII

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 22:13 in Posts, wire, electric fence, fences, corrals, beef cattle science, m.e. ensminger, cattle guards, barbed fence, texas gates

  FENCES FOR CATTLEGood fences (1) maintain farm boundaries, (2) make livestock operations possible, (3) reduce losses to both animals and crops, (4) increase land values, (5) promote better relationships between neighbours, (6) lessen accidents from a...

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