This article originally appeared in the July 2009 Virtual Beef Newsletter , Volume 8, Issue 23. Written by John Bancroft, Market Strategies Program Lead. The marketing of your cattle or beef has a direct impact on your overall business success. In fact, one of the biggest mistakes made in running a business is producing a [...]
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Adding Legumes to Pasture-Virtual Beef February 2009
Originally published in the Virtual Beef Newsletter February 2009, Volume 8, Issue 21. Written by Jack Kyle, Grazier Specialist. Adding Legumes to Pasture A pasture containing significant level of legume plants has a number of advantages over a pure grass pasture. Legumes provide nitrogen to promote grass growth, provide high quality forage, and some of [...]
A TMR Mixer for Every Beef Farm? Virtual Beef November 2008
This article first appeared in the Virtual Beef Newsletter Volume 7, Issue 20, November 2008. Written by Christoph Wand, Beef Cattle and Sheep Nutritionist A good starting point for the discussion of the value of a TMR (total mixed ration) mixer is to accept that this is a very defendable nutritional paradigm. The idea that [...]
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