Foiling Foot Rot
Cattle producers across the Ozarks can usually guarantee rain will be in the forecast through these spring months. This is a good thing most of the time, but there are a few downfalls to all that rainfall. Foot rot is one of them.
Gotcha With FAMACHA
Ozarks sheep and goat producers know that spring is the time to gear up for a never ending battle against parasites. While the external varieties; ticks, lice, flies and mosquitoes, are summertime skirmishes, internal parasites wage their war secretly, almost invisible until their damage begins to surface.
Minus Mastitis
Preventing disease is a main concern for many dairy farmers. Because mastitis is among the most common infection in the dairy industry, producers should be aware of the danger it poses to the health of their animals and the safety of their milk.
Mastitis, an inflammation in the mammary gland, is caused when pathogenic bacteria enters a cow’s udder through the teat orifice, moves into the teat canal and causes an infection.
Mastitis, an inflammation in the mammary gland, is caused when pathogenic bacteria enters a cow’s udder through the teat orifice, moves into the teat canal and causes an infection.
The First Steps of Animal Health
Animal health is very important to the overall profitability of all livestock operations. Animal health failure is a consequence of many management practices that producers take for granted or just fail to account for. Many producers believe that a good vaccination program is a good animal health program.
Six Tips for Grazing 365 Days
From stockpiled fescue to not burning your dormant warm season grasses; you can't lose with this advice
Interseeding Could Work For You
What interseeding legumes will do for your pastures, your pocketbook and your production numbers
Herd Records Produce Results
Proper record keeping techniques are shown to enable managers to put money back in their pockets
Backgrounding Check
Backgrounding for a healthy bottom line while maintaining genetics, health and nutrition to offer valuable returns
Worm: Specifics and Economics
Know the internal parasite that robs nutrition and vigor
Weaning: When and How
Determining when to wean, and what will be the best protocol when keeping calves on for backgrounding, creep feeding, etc.
