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Manure Management Conference 2013: The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center is pleased to host a national conference in 2013. The focus is to integrate research, education and extension...; More...

Managing High Feed Prices: Know Your Options (webinar): Managing High Feed Prices: Know Your Options Date: 10/15/12 Time: 9:00-11:30 ET URL: https://connect.uky.edu/mhfp/In this first seminar, specialists from the...; More...

Drought Strategies Concerning Livestock: Strategies to deal with drought are hardly ever palatable or easy to implement. With much of the country experiencing below normal precipitation and hot temperatures...; More...

Keep Heifer Development Costs In Check: Cow/calf producers have experienced some of the best times in recent history of the beef industry. Total calf inventory has been low and demand for calves has...; More...

Condition Score Cows Early: Body condition scores (BCS) describe the relative fatness of a cow through the use of a nine-point scale and is an effective management tool to evaluate nutritional...; More...

Feeding Your Culls May Be An Effective Marketing and Management Strategy: IntroductionAn option to enhance cash flow in your cow/calf enterprise is to increase revenue when cow costs are high. The Iowa Beef Cow Business Records indicate...; More...

Testing Forages for Quality: Are all forages alike? Of course not, but how different are they?This is hard to tell just by smelling, touching, and looking at the forage. Its hard to see the...; More...

Selecting Summer Annual Forage Grasses: Are you hoping to overcome drought by planting a summer annual grass? What type of summer annual will you plant? This can be confusing because there are five...; More...

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February 05, 2013: What's the P Index?

January 30, 2013: How are beef cattle raised?

October 03, 2012: Sometimes the AI (artificial insemination) gun passes freely through a heifer's cervix; in other cases...

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Recent Learning Lessons

March 23, 2010: Synchronizing Heat in Beef Cattle

March 11, 2009: Corn Stalk Grazing Calculator

March 11, 2009: The Estrous Cycle

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