West Texas Livestock

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Winter brings a unique set of challenges for livestock producers. As temperatures drop, pastures go dormant, leaving forages unable to meet the nutritional demands of your animals.

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West Texas Livestock

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

When people hear ‘grass tetany,’ they usually think of spring – lush grasses, green pastures, and cows grazing happily. Grass tetany is […] The post How to actually prevent grass tetany in winter appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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West Texas Livestock

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Prickly pear, along with other cactus species, is a pressing issue in pastures. The proliferation of these cacti can impede livestock movement and pose serious health risks. Prickly pear can rapidly overtake a pasture, choking out more desirable forages. Once established, controlling it is a labor-intensive, long-term endeavor.

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West Texas Livestock

JANUARY 29, 2025

Have you ever wondered if your pasture is working as hard as possible? Think of it as the starting point for improving your pasture’s output. Without it, you’re just […] The post Save time and money: soil test tips for ranchers appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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West Texas Livestock

JULY 31, 2024

This mode often involves taking extreme measures such as selling off a large portion of your herd […] The post How to really manage a ranch during drought appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. With all this difficulty, it can be easy to fall into a ‘survival’ mode during this time.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Maintaining and building fences is a yearly job on every ranch, costing at least $20,000 per mile. Once these fence posts are hammered into the ground, ranchers battle trees, wind and damage from livestock knocking them over. The livestock impact is what most fields have been lacking for the last 75 years.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue.

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West Texas Livestock

AUGUST 4, 2024

Introducing protein tubs into your pasture is a convenient way to provide additional nutrition. Once it’s in place, you don’t need to check it daily, which is particularly beneficial for those with other commitments, such as a job in town, who can’t be on the ranch daily.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This week’s episode of Voices from the Field is a conversation about Texas A&M University’s Center for Grazinglands and Ranch Management, hosted by NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Darron Gaus. She and Darron are co-leaders of the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education’s Soil for Water Texas Working Group.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 27, 2024

David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University expands seating Seating has been expanded for the award-winning and renamed David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University, which is scheduled for April 8-12 at Texas A&M University in Bryan-College Station.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Since taking the helm of the facility’s nutrition and dining services in 2018, he has worked to revamp the cuisine, including sourcing almost half of ingredients from farms and ranches within a 250-mile radius of the Sacramento Valley. Grazing cattle on pasture for the entirety of their lives, on the other hand, is far less productive.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. 6 Key Livestock Wellness Management Practices Measure & monitor the overall wellness of your herd/flock/etc. safe and well.

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West Texas Livestock

MARCH 14, 2025

When pasture grasses fall short, supplements help fill in the gaps so your animals can stay healthy and productive. Providing a feed supplement to grazing cattle is essential because sometimes the natural forage just isn’t enough to meet their nutritional needs.

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West Texas Livestock

JUNE 17, 2024

Summer pneumonia, sometimes referred to as pasture pneumonia, is a disease that is usually observed in calves on pasture late in summer. The issue with this disease is that little is known about it, and it […] The post How to actually overcome summer pneumonia in your calves appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

Whenever you introduce a disruption, make certain to be highly observant and to observe how the disruption is impacting the soil, the plants, and the livestock. It also preserves your pastures from tractor traffic during wet winter conditions. Perform the Haney Test annually on each major area of the ranch. So, 500 lbs.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. According to U.S.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 8, 2024

At Eagle Rock Ranch in Jefferson, Colorado, the elk start to gather at dusk. Gottenborg is working to create a habitat on his ranch that sustains the elk population. Gottenborg is working to create a habitat on his ranch that sustains the elk population. Every winter herds of elk come through Eagle Rock Ranch in search of food.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This month we want to introduce you to Marcia Barinaga of Barinaga Ranch. I enjoy poring over pasture data to plan my grazing rotation, or planning the projects we have undertaken to sequester carbon in the soil and improve our pasture productivity. Photo by: Paige Green New month, new member spotlight!

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West Texas Livestock

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Left unchecked, Mesquite has a knack for […] The post Mesquite control made easy: what every rancher should know appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. But beyond the grill, they can be a real nuisance for ranchers and range managers.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For this month we’re highlighting a farm that provides their community with a wide range of delicious food, Red Gate Ranch. Q&A Why did you start to ranch/grow food? ” What is one thing you wished you knew before you started ranching/ growing food? ” Where do you see your ranch in 5 years?

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric and Mikala both knew that they could raise hogs outdoors, but it wasn’t until they started partnering with Niman Ranch that they could make it work financially and begin to grow their business. “I Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. I’m open-minded about it.”

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Colorado’s semi-arid climate can be unpredictable, presenting challenges for ranchers and livestock producers. Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is a vital tool that helps protect against weather-related forage shortages, ensuring the sustainability of your operation. What is PRF Insurance? Contact us Today!

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

Recognizing the vital role that four-legged friends often play on family farms and ranches, Farm Bureau launched the Farm Dog of the Year contest several years ago now a popular feature of the American Farm Bureau Federations Convention.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Monitor Livestock: Many ranches utilize livestock RFID tags to track their herd movements and easily scan and understand their health and wellness. Devices such as soil moisture sensors, micro weather stations, and livestock trackers will be interconnected to create a comprehensive data ecosystem.

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West Texas Livestock

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This need is because, during this time, most of your tame pasture forages go into dormancy. It is needed to […] The post Skyrocket cattle growth with protein tubs and smart feeding appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. When this happens, things like their protein content will go down.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones. With that has come the extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. He cannot sell that pork to Niman Ranch, which has a strict “no-antibiotics ever” policy. “If

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Agricultural producers who move fence and livestock daily or every few days during the growing season have talked about the benefits of adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing, sometimes called rotational grazing, for soil health, plant diversity and their livestock for quite some time now.

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West Texas Livestock

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Feeding during the winter is one of the most significant expenses for a livestock producer. […] The post How to actually manage forage and feed in drought appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. Also, grazing during the winter may be limited depending on what forages you have available.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” She and her husband started ranching in their late 20s, and they’ve been at it for more than 40 years now. “We But then, she’s had to.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the sun sets over the rolling hills and the cattle graze peacefully in the meadows, it's easy to appreciate the timeless beauty of ranching. Sustainable grazing practices help maintain healthy pastures and ecosystems, reduce the environmental impact of ranching, and enhance the overall well-being of the animals in your care.

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West Texas Livestock

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

By […] The post Soil testing 101: a rancher’s guide to better yields appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. Soil fertility and health are the bedrock of forage production.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure.

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