Feeding Cattle Popcorn

And UK farmer Derek Gow confirmed that suspicion the hard way, as his Hitler-era Heck cows proved so aggressive that he ended up sending more than half of them to the sausage factory. The ill-conceived venture began back in 2009, when Gow imported a dozen of the so-called Nazi cows from Belgium, a strain of cattle stepping hoof onto British soil for the first time in 200 years. At the time Gow dubbed the move part of his larger conservation efforts to protect disappearing s

Anemia, weakness, and jaundice: those are three symptoms of anaplasmosis, a disease that’s causing some big headaches for Texas cattle farmers right now. Transmitted through biting insects like ticks and passed between animals by infected ear taggers, needles, dehorners, and castrating equipment, anaplasmosis was a major problem for western cattle farmers in the early 20th century. Better tick control and treatment with antibiotics in the 1980s and 1990s saw incidents

Thanks to Dawn Hnatow for co-authoring this piece! A lot of ranchers have trouble gathering their cattle; that is, it takes a lot of riders multiple days and they still end up short. If done properly, however, one or two people can gather even large pastures in one day and miss none. Conventional gathering In conventional gathering riders make several mistakes that impede the process: First, they ride into the pasture to be gathered and approach the cattle head on. At worst, the animals turn an

Here’s a 4:13 video from the Land Stewardship Program’s Bridge to Soil Health Initiative. In it, Kaleb Anderson shows how he uses “sacrifice” pastures planted in cover crops to keep his cattle off their hilly pastures in the spring to prevent erosion and eliminate topsoil loss.Then to counteract the damage done, he lets it heal all summer long with a multi-species cover crop. Anderson and his Dad farm what was his Grandfather’s place, raising beef, pork, corn, soyb