One source of cost-sharing assistance is the 319 program.
Management
NDSU’s Extension veterinarian offers advice to help cattle producers reduce the risk of scours and other problems.
Cattle producers can use grain or coproducts to stretch their feed supplies.
Livestock producers need to protect their animals from hypothermia and frostbite.
By reducing the intensity of the cattle in one area, producers can mitigate problems.
Livestock are a key cause of agricultural-related injuries.
NDSU’s FeedList Web site brings together sellers and buyers of feedstuffs.
Don’t wait until hay supplies run out to find other feeds.
Cattle management and marketing information is available at the click of a mouse.
NDSU’s winter storm information Web site helps urban and rural people cope with winter weather.
Calves require more feed as temperatures drop.
Cattle producers should protect their animals from the wind and extremely cold temperatures.
The seminar will highlight beef cattle research conducted at the HREC, NDSU and Mandan USDA-Agricultural Research Service.
Horses need to be protected from winter weather, too.
Lenders say North Dakota agricultural credit will be available and reasonably priced in 2009.
NDSU research shows light test-weight corn can be used as cattle feed.
Corn residue can help cut winter feeding costs for beef cattle.
The NDSU Extension Service is offering online video programs to address cattle issues.
Range monitoring helps producers provide abundant and nutritious forage for their livestock.
Plants can help signal overgrazing on rangeland.
Canola can be a feed source if producers follow some common-sense precautions when introducing it to their livestock.
Producers should test forage before feeding it to their livestock.
Drought has lowered the quality of water available to livestock in parts of North Dakota.
Producers may be able to use some weeds as feed for their cattle.
Monitoring key sites will help rangeland managers see what’s happening in an entire management unit.
Harvesting light test weight barley as a forage crop may be a viable option this year.
Early weaning is an option for cattle producers in areas where drought has reduced forage production.
NDSU’s Central Grasslands Research Extension Center will help producers learn how to better monitor their rangeland.
NDSU is offering range managers a new online forum to share ideas, and post and answer questions.
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