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Tick IPM & New Approaches to Fly Thresholds on Cattle
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This webinar will explore two timely livestock IPM topics: managing ticks on cattle and rethinking traditional fly thresholds. With changing tick pressures and new insights into cattle behavior and pest impacts, this session offers updated, practical guidance to help producers make more effective, evidence-based management decisions. The webinar will be presented by Dr. Cassandra Olds.…
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Reclaiming and Establishing Pastures and Hayfields
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In part five of our series, Where’s the Grass?, we share there are many ways to establish and improve grazing lands and hayfields. People often ask me how they should go about improving their pasturelands and hayfields. The devil, as they say, is in the details. This all depends on what class of livestock you…
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Backyard Beef
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Raise High-Quality Beef in Your Own Backyard! You don’t have to have a large herd of beef cattle to raise your own – just a couple will do! Join Cornell Cooperative Extension Livestock Specialist, Amy Barkley, to learn more about micro-scale beef production including breed selection, housing requirements, nutrition, and common health issues. Participants will…
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Cornell Cow Convos
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This monthly podcast series led by PRO-DAIRY and CCE Dairy Specialists, features current, new, and emerging topics of interest to the dairy industry right now. New episodes are released on the last Thursday of the month. Our first few episodes include discussions on preventative healthcare for cows, the trend of beef on dairy, what to…
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Why I Love Grazing
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In the first installment of our new series, Where’s the Grass?, we share why grazing is good for you, your checkbook, your farm, your animals, and the world! For the past several years, I have authored the “What’s Your Beef” column and will now only occasionally write an installment on that topic. Pasture and grazing…
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How Much Hay Do I Need for Winter?
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In part 18 of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we discuss how a sharp pencil and a good calculator can go a long ways in figuring out how much your hay will cost you. As you read this in the autumn months, it might be prudent to go over…
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Should I Fertilize My Beef Pastures?
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In part 17 of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we discuss grazing conditions for beef cattle and other classes of grazing livestock. My motivation in writing this article is due to the many atrocious grazing conditions that I find beef cattle and other classes of livestock grazing in…
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Dealing with the Year of the Drought
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In part 10 of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we share some of our strategies to overcome the obstacles faced in a drought year and what you need to know to keep your cattle producing. By Rich Taber As beef producers, we weather all kinds of weather and climatic calamities…
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Preparing Your Beef Cows for Springtime Calving
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In part eight of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we share why you need to be paying strict attention to the quality of feed that your late gestation beef cows receive just prior to calving season. This article is the eighth installment on raising and managing beef cattle in…
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Beef Handling and Feeding Equipment Considerations
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In part three of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we help you answer the questions of how to safely and efficiently feed and handle large beef cattle. This is the third installment in a multi-part series on raising beef cattle on the small farm. Previous installments can be viewed in the Summer and…
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