Flood
Many South Dakotans are dealing with flood issues following recent blizzards and record-breaking rain.
Animal Health
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Digging Out of the Mess of an Ugly Winter
As snow melts, livestock producers will deal with mud at a minimum and extensive flooding as a worst-case scenario. While we can’t control the pace of melting or the possibility of more precipitation, we may be able to take a few steps to mitigate the negative impacts.
Managing Cow/Calf Pairs With Excess Spring Moisture
Recent flooding has wreaked havoc on livestock producers in Southeastern S.D., while blizzard conditions and feet of snow are still creating challenges for producers in the North and Western sides of the state.
Guidelines for Livestock Carcass Disposal in South Dakota
Even though every producer tries their best to keep all animals born alive, there will always be death loss in livestock production systems.
Livestock Loss Assistance
The Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) is designed to provide a payment to livestock owners or contract growers who experience excess livestock deaths due to adverse weather, including winter storms, floods, extreme cold and blizzards, eligible disease and eligible attacks.
Spring Flooding: Preserving Your Ability to Care for Your Animals
When the winter snowfall begins to melt, oftentimes into ground already saturated from fall precipitation, significant areas in the state can face severe flooding in the spring.
Livestock Newsletter
SDSU Extension publishes the Livestock Newsletter to provide South Dakota producers, industry professionals and consumers with timely research-based recommendations.
Feeding Distillers Grains: Mathematics vs. Biology
Corn distillers dried grains (DDGS) are valued by ruminant nutritionists because of their high nutrient concentration.
Does Cold Weather Contribute to Pneumonia in Calves?
Prolonged winter cold has some fairly obvious effects on cattle of all ages.
Capsicum Oleoresin Fed to Grow-Finish Pigs Improved Carcass Value
Feed additives are low inclusion, non-nutritive, feed ingredients designed to provide benefits in the growth, feed efficiency, and/or feed intake of animals and ultimately lower the cost of production.
Reproductive Losses in Beef Cattle: Diagnosing the Cause
With cattle reproduction, focusing on what we can control and diagnose is the key to avoiding further losses within a herd.