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GrassesAchieving satisfactory levels of weight gain for developing replacement beef heifers is challenging when utilizing toxic endophyte-infected tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus) as the primary forage.
Christopher T. Beard +3 more
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Northern bobwhites select for native grasses on working grazing land
The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 90, Issue 7, September 2026.Northern bobwhites in eastern Kentucky selected for native warm‐season grasses at multiple spatial scales in an environment dominated by exotic cool‐season grass cattle forage. Our study suggests that incorporating native warm‐season grass cattle forages into existing operations across the southeastern United States may be a viable working‐lands ...
Douglas B. Mitchell +6 more
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, 1986 The price spread between steers and heifers is the most important reason buyers purchase market heifers. To illustrate this price difference consider the following information summarized from a marketing study reported in 1979 comparing steer and heifer ...
Rupp, Gary P.
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Growth and lactation performance of dairy heifers raised in confinement or on pasture
Journal of Dairy Science: Raising heifers on pasture may be a strategy for reducing economic cost of heifer rearing. However, few studies have compared heifers raised in confinement versus on pasture and their long-term effects on first lactation performance.
Carlos H.P. Camisa Nova +5 more
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2026.This study aims to determine the economic impacts of the major agents causing diarrhoea in newborn calves using Monte Carlo simulation and decision tree analysis. According to the study results, the cost per animal was $13.7 for healthy calves without diarrhoea.
Mehmet Küçükoflaz +7 more
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, 2006 This study was conducted to investigate the effects of rumen-protected tryptophan (125g tryptophan per day) in heifers and dairy cows. Blood samples from dairy cows and heifers were collected for 24h in 3-h intervals on the day before tryptophan ...
Kollmann, M T +5 more
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2026.Livestock feeding in the Korahey Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia, is predominantly based on free grazing of natural pasture (75%), with camels and goats being the dominant livestock species. The annual feed supply from natural pasture (2196 tDM) satisfies only 54.6% of the livestock dry matter requirement (4023.68 tDM), resulting in a substantial ...
Wondimagegn Tadesse +2 more
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 5, September 2026.Whole fodder beet silage (with/without Lactobacillus buchneri) in sheep diets improved dry matter intake and rumen fermentation compared to tops or bulbs alone. Although corn silage showed highest digestibility, whole beet silage—especially with LB—demonstrated promising rumen pH, NH3‐N and acetate:propionate ratio, serving as a viable alternative feed.
Ali Abdi Saray +5 more
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Open Cow Replacement Decisions: an Application of Asset Replacement Theory [PDF]
Beef producers must decide what to do with a cow that fails to conceive during the breeding season. Keeping the open cow results in a years expenses without any revenue.
Anderson, John D., Ibendahl, Gregory A.
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An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Virtual Fencing for Precision Grazing
Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 1018-1033, September 2026.ABSTRACT The UK grazing livestock sector is challenged by declining farm profitability and stringent environmental policy. Innovative technologies such as virtual fencing could enable a balanced economic and environmental performance of beef production. Virtual fencing is a livestock management tool relying on invisible boundaries perceived as auditory,
Elias Maritan +4 more
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