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Management Minder Tool: Staying Organized on the Ranch
Daily life is busy on the farm and ranch and it seems as if once calving season is done, there is barely time to rest before fields must be planted or hay made.
Providing Feedback to Employees
Positive feedback can be motivating. It gives the employee a sense of accomplishment, achievement, recognition, and a sense of importance to the business.
Grazing Residue: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
Integrating crop and livestock enterprises represents an incredible competitive advantage for farmers and ranchers.
Heifer Selection Strategies
Producers should consider some common characteristics and questions to help select replacement heifers strategically.
Finding Females for the Cowherd
The type and kind of females chosen for your cowherd is an important decision that can have long-term implications and great impact on the economic viability of the operation.
Fall Calving Cows: Management and Breeding Decisions
As producers with spring calving herds are completing weaning and moving cows to winter range, fall calving herds are gearing up for the next breeding season.
Horizontal Bed Biofilter Construction: Lessons learned at the SDSU gestation unit
This article outlines the design considerations, experiences and cost to construct a horizontal bed biofilter for a pit fan on the new South Dakota State University Swine Education and Research Facility gestation room.
Parasite Control for Cow Calf Operations
Spring is coming and with calving season underway it is important to keep our eyes forward on to the next step in production.
Hay: Stop the Waste
In an effort to prevent increasing the winter feed bill, a new bale feeder design or feeding plan may need to be developed and put into action in order to manage hay waste this winter.
Successful Heifer Synchronization Using MGA
Effective estrous synchronization protocols are one of the keys to successful AI projects.