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2013 Effects of Forage Level in Finishing Diets on Beef Feedlot Performance and Carcass Characterisitics: A trial to see how forage levels in cattle diets affect performance and carcass traits.
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2013 Feed Testing for Ranchers: Results of feed analysis can be used to better predict calf performance in backgrounding rations and develop effective cow wintering diets.
Located in Archive / Livestock / Feedlot Research
2014 An Update from the Discovery Farms Project: The Discovery Farms project provides a working farm setting to collect the data needed to help strike that balance between profitability and protection of natural resources.
Located in Archive / … / AgronomyRD / Docs2014
2014 Effects of Corn Particle Size and Forage Level on Performance and Carcass Traits of Yearling Steers during Finishing: Animal performance for yearling steers fed diets containing whole, dry-rolled, or finely-ground corn with decreasing forage levels.
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2014 Effects of Fat Level in Distillers Grain on Feedlot Finishing Performance and Carcass Traits: Performance of steers fed rations with increasing fat in distillers grains.
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2015 Beets as Feed for Growing and Finishing Steers: Sugar beets have been fed to cattle throughout the world for the past 100+ years but only recently have we realized that this crop has the unique potential of producing high yields on saline soils where other crops will not grow. “Feed beets™” are a variation of sugarbeets developed specifically for feeding ruminant animals. Beets contain more energy than corn silage (80% vs. 70% TDN; Table 1) but are typically lower in dry matter (DM) (25% vs. 35%). The sugar and digestible fiber content make beets particularly attractive as a feedstuff for all classes of beef cattle.
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2015 Effects of Whole or Rolled Corn with 20 or 40 Percent Grass Hay on Finishing Performance of Yearling Steers: Crossbred yearling steers were used to evaluate feeding whole or dry-rolled corn in diets with 20 or 40 percent of the diet dry matter included from grass hay.
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2015 Feedlot Beef Manure as a Source of Nitrogen for Wheat and Nitrogen Strategies to Increase Wheat Protein Content: Previous research at the Carrington REC has shown that plots fertilized with manure show similar yields to plots fertilized with commercial fertilizers, but the protein content is in general lower on the manure plots. The study objective was to assess the effects of beef feedlot manure application in combination with strategic commercial fertilizer applications to improve wheat protein content.
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2015 Influence of Two Fat Levels of Dry Distillers Grains in Diets with Corn or Barley on Steer Growing and Finishing Feedlot Performance: Corn distillers grain is produced at multiple ethanol plants in North Dakota. Primarily three moisture levels of corn distillers grain product are available: dry (~90-95% dry matter, DDGS), modified (49-52% dry mater, MDGS) or wet (< 48% dry matter; WDGS). The current process typically involves a step to remove corn oil (fat) during ethanol production. This oil removal may alter the nutrient density of the resulting distillers grain feedstuff, which in turn could affect animal performance.
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2016 Discovering Value in North Dakota Calves: The Dakota Feeder Calf Show Feedout Project XVI (2015-2016): The Dakota Feeder Calf Show Feedout goal is to determine calf value based on feedlot and carcass performance.
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