Grass Savings with Grazing Systems
For many Ozarks cattle producers, their grazing system consists of no system at all.
Improving Egg Production
Chickens have long been an irreplaceable part of the family farming scene. For hundreds of years, chickens have been raised and kept for their ability to lay eggs and to provide meat. Today, most farms have at least a small flock of chickens scratching around the farm yard, and still other farmers make the majority of their living on chickens. Whatever the size of your flock may be, if you have laying hens, chances are that you will want to take each and every opportunity to help your hens improve their egg laying efficiency and production.
Manage Your Fields with Fire
“Fire is a natural process,” John Weir, research associate with the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “It’s right behind rainfall as being important, because there’s nothing that a landowner can do that will impact the land like fire can. It’s a very important part of that process; it’s important for the native plant communities, and also for the native wildlife.”
The Udder Side of the Story
After getting through the birth of your calves, now we need to look at disease and the baby calf. Normally this means scours. We all hate to see them with diarrhea and loose them. The first protection against scours is colostrum intake at birth and the cow having the immunity to pass on to the calf. This means having the cow vaccinated for the common causes: Blackleg, BVD, and maybe E.coli and the viruses.