Stocking rate can be expressed in different ways. Sometimes it is expressed as the average number of animals during the lease period. Animal-days or animal-unit-days are better ways to figure stocking rate. The method you choose to express stocking rate should be clearly written in the lease agreement and discussed between all parties.

Colorado has become the poster child state for pushing the envelope of controversial changes, and the state’s latest, a historically strict gun bill legislation, has ag supporters joining forces with a number of other groups in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the legislation.

By using the Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) technique first discovered by USDA Agricultural Research Service geneticist Rob Elshire, Cornell researcher Ikhide Imumorin, assistant professor of animal genetics and genomics at Cornell, said genetic traits will be easier to identify and put to use.

Rains are once again a mixed blessing in corn country. On the one hand, it is needed in many areas, and on the other, it continues to delay the remaining percentage points of corn plantings for this year. The slow progress has led to comparisons to 1993 and questions about whether this year has been the slowest year in recent memory.

Regular evaluation of breeding stock should be a no-brainer to producers of small-, medium-, and largesized operations. Besides routinely examining heifers and cows in order to determine a ‘bred’ or ‘open’ status—bulls of any age should also be evaluated for libido, physical attributes and semen quality.

There are no GE wheat varieties approved for sale or in commercial production in the U.S. or elsewhere at this time, but the agency stressed it does not pose a food safety concern. There is also no information that indicates this trait entered the commercial supply chain, according to an APHIS Q&A fact sheet.

The herd consisted of 40 head of 600-pound cattle and had just arrived at the Fox property hours before the storm hit. However, the small herd didn’t travel as far as others had and was easily identified while grazing in the yards of nearby neighborhoods.

It has been difficult this spring to get cattle and beef markets all operating on the same page. Choice boxed beef, which capped wholesale values below $200/cwt. for more than a year, finally punched through the ceiling on May 2 and posted a strong May run culminating in record highs of $211.

Gas prices usually climb in the summer as motorists log more driving miles for vacations and weekend getaways, and fill their tanks with more expensive summer blend fuels.

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