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Complementing A Forage Program With Annual Forages, Ken Remmington Dec 1999

Complementing A Forage Program With Annual Forages, Ken Remmington

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Economists tell us that in a mature industry you must be a low cost producer to survive. The meat industry is ending the century much more mature than it began. Sophisticated production of pork and poultry with the benefit of cheap grain is putting pressure on beef producers. The long-term trend in grain prices is downward because the cost of producing grain is being reduced by three ongoing trends. The continuing enrichment of the atmosphere by CO2 and other greenhouse gases is crop production friendly despite what you may have heard of few years back. Secondly, bio-tech seeds are increasing …

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Imminent Commercialization Of Sexed Bovine Sperm, J. L. Schenk, G. E. Seidel Jr. Dec 1999

Imminent Commercialization Of Sexed Bovine Sperm, J. L. Schenk, G. E. Seidel Jr.

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Cattle breeders demand products and services that improve efficiency and maximize profits. Research and development for these products, once done primarily in academic settings, now is occurring more within the private corporate sector who now fund research that was previously funded from public sources. These products often are patented and licensed to individual companies. Product availability is hastened, but sometimes at higher costs. Sex-specific sperm soon will be available to the cattle industry for use in high profile, genetically elite herds. Widespread availability of sex-specific sperm for commercial herds should follow within 2 years.

Sex-specific sperm for use with artificial …

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Ranching With Regulations, Ron Micheli Dec 1999

Ranching With Regulations, Ron Micheli

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Unfortunately, in today's world, ranchers are feeling the frustration portrayed in the above story. On a daily basis, the agriculture community is being over run by zealots from the federal government who are enforcing such things as the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Protection Act, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, and on, and on, and on. More and more time and expense are being required to deal with these issues, all the while, fears of being able to make management decisions on the ranch are being threatened.

This seems to be particularly true of …

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Fence Posts Talking To Each Other, Ronald J. Hanson Dec 1999

Fence Posts Talking To Each Other, Ronald J. Hanson

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Sometimes rather simple misunderstandings as well as the stress of daily life can quite easily damage the personal relationships between family members. Too often the inability to openly share personal feelings and the failure to discuss expectations can ruin any family relationship. This is most often caused by an actual breakdown in communications between family members, especially during periods of stress (i.e. whether financial, work or even personal) when individuals withdraw or hide their emotions from each other. Juggling the current demands of ranch work, family and personal needs can become quite a challenge to anyone. Persons get so wrapped …

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Sharing The Range – What Diseases Do Wild Ruminants And Beef Cattle Share?, Elizabeth S. Williams Dec 1999

Sharing The Range – What Diseases Do Wild Ruminants And Beef Cattle Share?, Elizabeth S. Williams

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Our western rangelands support a wide variety of species including ruminants that are exquisitely suited to make use of these renewable resources. Domestic ruminants utilizing these rangelands include cattle, domestic sheep, and less frequently, at least in the northern Great Plains and intermountain west, domestic goats. Wild ruminants, in numbers, variety, and quality not found anywhere else in North America, include mule deer, pronghorn, and elk. White-tailed deer frequent the riparian areas, moose are found in low numbers in forest lands, bighorn sheep inhabit rough breaks and the higher altitudes, and free-ranging bison are found around the national parks in …

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Vaccines And Dewormers – Do We Need Them All?, Dale M. Grotelueschen Dec 1999

Vaccines And Dewormers – Do We Need Them All?, Dale M. Grotelueschen

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Consumers are the ultimate beneficiaries of improved animal health. Costs and potential benefits from use of vaccines and dewormers affect returns to individual producers or operations as well as the beef industry as a whole. Vaccines that positively influence average daily gain, improve carcass quality, lower costs of production and improve efficiency, and that reduce treatments, decreasing reliance on antibiotics, and that decrease treatment costs contribute to success of the beef industry.

Consideration for use by individual operations often involves shorter time perspectives, especially if cattle are marketed or if products administered affect only production systems on the premises. When …

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Lifetime Effects Of Respiratory And Liver Disease On Cattle, Bill Epperson Dec 1999

Lifetime Effects Of Respiratory And Liver Disease On Cattle, Bill Epperson

Range Beef Cow Symposium

In cattle, the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts are the main systems affected with disease. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) contributes the majority of illness and death loss in the feedlot segment. Historically, 15-45% of feedlot cattle have been affected with BRD, with 1-5% of total cattle placed dying of BRD (Kelly 1986). Respiratory disease, alone, accounts for 44.1% of deaths in beef feedlot cattle (Vogel 1994). Apart from death loss, the Texas Ranch to Rail Program has suggested that clinical disease (most of which is BRD), even if treated successfully, results in treatment cost ($37.90/affected), decreased average daily gain (0.21 lb/d, …

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Development Of Multibred Genetic Evaluation, Jerry Lipsey Dec 1999

Development Of Multibred Genetic Evaluation, Jerry Lipsey

Range Beef Cow Symposium

There are several important reasons the beef industry needed to develop multibreed genetic evaluation capabilities:

• Multibreed analyses procedures do a better job of evaluating breeding values of individuals with two or more breeds in their pedigree.

• This new technology provides information that more closely matches the potential genetics in current and future beef production systems.

• U.S. Beef Producers want to alternate breeds to take advantage of crossbreeding and biological type complementarity.

• The beef industry wants to utilize composite seedstock that benefit from seedstock production heterosis and provide heterosis in commercial production systems.

• The long term …

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Factors To Consider When Buying And Managing Bulls, Ivan G. Rush, Connee Quinn Dec 1999

Factors To Consider When Buying And Managing Bulls, Ivan G. Rush, Connee Quinn

Range Beef Cow Symposium

When considering purchasing a sire price often becomes the first consideration. My father once said the most expensive bull he ever purchased was the one he bought the cheapest. If replacement heifers are retained in the herd, 80-90% of the genetic change in a herd will be made by the bull's genetic makeup. Thus, as leading ranchers know, making decisions in selecting bulls is very important. Management of the bull after he arrives at the farm or ranch is also very important. The best genetic package is of little value unless the bull is managed to serve a large number …

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Consideration Of Weaning Time, Implanting Strategies And Carcass Data On Cow-Calf Decisions, Doug L. Hixon Dec 1999

Consideration Of Weaning Time, Implanting Strategies And Carcass Data On Cow-Calf Decisions, Doug L. Hixon

Range Beef Cow Symposium

As the beef industry becomes more focused on the consumer, various management practices must be evaluated to determine what lasting effects they might have on final consumer product. In the past, we have evaluated the effects of management decisions on performance and measured differences in pounds produced. However, the dynamic nature of the beef industry and the necessity for sustainability requires that we measure performance in dollars rather than pounds. I often ask students to describe their ideal beef animal in eleven words or less. I believe the answer to that question is "the one that makes the most money …

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Can Cow Adaptability And Carcass Acceptability Both Be Achieved?, R. D. Green, T. G. Field, N. S. Hammett, B. M. Ripley, S. P. Doyle Dec 1999

Can Cow Adaptability And Carcass Acceptability Both Be Achieved?, R. D. Green, T. G. Field, N. S. Hammett, B. M. Ripley, S. P. Doyle

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Over the past couple of decades, the beef cattle industry has become a confusing place to exist. Messages have been conveyed to producers at a fast and furious pace. This would not be a problem if these messages were consistent and if they were compatible with each other, yet this is far from the real situation. Daryl Tatum has been known to occasionally coin the term to describe confusion as “someone being lost in his/her own fog”. Unfortunately, this verbage very accurately describes the beef cattle production environment of the 1990s.

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Enhancing Management Decisions – History Of The Decision Evaluator For The Cattle Industry, Barry Dunn, T. G. Jenkins, C. B. Williams Dec 1999

Enhancing Management Decisions – History Of The Decision Evaluator For The Cattle Industry, Barry Dunn, T. G. Jenkins, C. B. Williams

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Ranch management is the decision making process of resource allocation for a business enterprise that manages natural resources, animals and capitol to meet goals of profitability and sustainability. While this brief sentence captures the essence of ranch management, simplicity is hardly one of ranch decision-making's characteristics. The diagram in Figure 1 has been used to describe the challenge of ranch management as a web of information and complex interrelationships that influence the viability of a beef cattle enterprise. While even this diagram simplifies the complexities faced by ranchers as they grapple with decisions, it does add sensitivity and understanding.

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Ranching Information On The Web, Steve Swigert Dec 1999

Ranching Information On The Web, Steve Swigert

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Each day, we are flooded with new information about different products, management practices or production procedures. To keep from missing out on the opportunities while keeping our sanity, we must become better users of information.

In the future, the use and transfer of this information will involve the use of Internet and the World Wide Web. By providing an around-the-clock link to the outside world for the user and a vast sea of information, the producer can access valuable information from any where in the world, whether they are located in northern Montana, southern Texas, or in the mountains of …

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Snow Management And Windbreaks, R. L. Jairell, R. A. Schmidt Dec 1999

Snow Management And Windbreaks, R. L. Jairell, R. A. Schmidt

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Anticipating and planning for winters can save farmers and ranchers money with proper snow management and windbreaks. This paper describes tools developed by the U.S. Forest Service to control wind and blowing snow. The discussion updates reviews (Jairell and Schmidt 1989, 1991) of more detailed papers listed as references, available by request to the mailing address given at the end of the paper. Additional information is also available on the Internet at http://www-wrrc.uwyo.edu/wrds/rmfres.

Techniques for wind screening discussed here are (1) permanent livestock protection shelters, and (2) temporary, portable windscreens. Practices to control snow accumulation are discussed under the following …

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Principles For Low Stress Cattle Handling, Temple Grandin Dec 1999

Principles For Low Stress Cattle Handling, Temple Grandin

Range Beef Cow Symposium

An understanding of animal psychology combined with well designed facilities will reduce stress on both you and your cattle. Reducing stress is important because stress reduces the ability to fight disease and weight gain. The principles discussed in this book apply to all types of grazing animals. Stress increases weight loss, damages rumen function, and can interfere with reproduction.

An animal's previous experiences will affect its stress reaction to handling. Cattle have long memories. Animals which have been handled roughly will be more stresses and difficult to handle in the future. Animals which are handled gently and have become accustomed …

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Market Outlook And Factors That Impact Cattle Prices, Randy Blach Dec 1999

Market Outlook And Factors That Impact Cattle Prices, Randy Blach

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Content:

Cattle Number's and Meat Supply

Demand and Trade

Feedgrain

Outlook 2000

Strategies

Where’s the Profit

2001-2002 Outlook

Beef Industry Structure

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Spin Trapping Pharmaceutical Compositions And Methods For Use Thereof, John M. Carney, Robert A. Floyd Dec 1999

Spin Trapping Pharmaceutical Compositions And Methods For Use Thereof, John M. Carney, Robert A. Floyd

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Patents

Spin trapping compositions in general have now been discovered to be effective in treating a variety of disorders, including disorders such as those arising from ischemia, infection, inflammation, exposure to radiation or cytotoxic compounds, not just of the central and peripheral nervous systems but of peripheral organ disease having a wide variety of etiologies. In the preferred embodiment, the compositions for treating tissue damage from ischemia contain PBN, or active derivatives thereof, in a suitable pharmaceutical carrier for intravenous, oral, topical, or nasal/pulmonary administration. Other preferred spin-trapping agents include 5,5-dimethyl pyrroline N-oxide, (DMPO), α-(4-pyridyl-1-oxide)-N-tert-butylnitrone, (POBN), and (TEMPO) spin-trapping derivatives thereof. …

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The Grizzly, December 14, 1999, Stephanie Restine, Kelly Tessena, Cory Braiterman, Diane Johnson, Fran Shaughnessy Dec 1999

The Grizzly, December 14, 1999, Stephanie Restine, Kelly Tessena, Cory Braiterman, Diane Johnson, Fran Shaughnessy

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

A Miracle of Science: Missing Link to Graduation and Real World Reappears for UC Bio Majors • Debate and Discussion Hailed a Success by College Dems • Final Exam Schedule • Winners From the Holiday Decorating Contest • Men's Basketball Wins 3 Straight • First Win for Women's Basketball Team

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United States Patent: Method And System For Estimating The Tenderness Of A Meat Product, Maria Victoria Spadaro, Rosana Moreira, Jimmy Keeton, D. H. Allen Dec 1999

United States Patent: Method And System For Estimating The Tenderness Of A Meat Product, Maria Victoria Spadaro, Rosana Moreira, Jimmy Keeton, D. H. Allen

Department of Engineering Mechanics: Faculty Publications

A method for estimating the tenderness of a meat product is provided. The method includes determining the stress relaxation coefficient of a meat sample. One or more physical parameters of the meat sample are then determined from the stress relaxation coefficient. Diagnostic sensory characterization data, such as a numerical estimation of the meat's overall tenderness, is then determined for the meat sample. The physical parameters are then correlated to the diagnostic sensory characterization data, to allow the diagnostic sensory characterization data to be estimated solely from the measured physical parameters.

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County Agent's Notes - December 13, 1999, Ernest "Ernie" Flint Jr. Dec 1999

County Agent's Notes - December 13, 1999, Ernest "Ernie" Flint Jr.

Ernie Flint - Mississippi State Extension Reports

Flint's county agent's notes, which is a type of newsletter, include a special invitation to the Central Mississippi Holiday Classic livestock and discussion of the relationship between Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Stations (MAFES) and Mississippi State University Extension Services (MSUES) and some of the programs they host.

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The Daily Egyptian, December 13, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 1999

The Daily Egyptian, December 13, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 1999

No abstract provided.

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Monitor Newsletter December 13, 1999, Bowling Green State University Dec 1999

Monitor Newsletter December 13, 1999, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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South Dakota State University Graduation Exercises, December 11, 1999, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State University Dec 1999

South Dakota State University Graduation Exercises, December 11, 1999, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State University

Commencement Programs

Please be advised that the individuals listed in the program do not serve as an official confirmation of having met the graduation requirements. The 1999 Fall Graduation Exercises will commence with introductions by University President Peggy Gordon Elliott. Serving as honorary marshals are Dr. James O. Pederson, Dean of General Registration Emeritus, and Dr. Duane E. Sander, Dean Emeritus of Electrical Engineering. The graduation address, titled "Graduation is Commencement," will be delivered by Dr. Herbert E. Cheever, Jr., Dean of the College of Arts and Science. Dr. Carol J. Peterson, Vice President for Academic Affairs, will acknowledge student and faculty …

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 11, 1999, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 1999

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 11, 1999, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

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Eagles Vs. Asbury / Lady Eagles Vs. Unc Asheville / Lady Eagles Vs. Marshall, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics. Dec 1999

Eagles Vs. Asbury / Lady Eagles Vs. Unc Asheville / Lady Eagles Vs. Marshall, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The official game program from the December 11, 19 and 21, 1999 basketball games between Morehead State University and Asbury College, the University of North Carolina Asheville and Marshall University.

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The Echo: December 10, 1999, Taylor University Dec 1999

The Echo: December 10, 1999, Taylor University

1999-2000 (Volume 87)

Reminder! – Correction – Missing nativity figures recovered – Collymore’s health continues to improve – Taylor tradition ends: 1999 marks final ‘Christmas with Jay’ – Oral Interpretation Christmas production: ‘…And a child shall lead them’ – Parking ticket problems – Reader signs Messiah’s praise – On the threshold of a new millennium, Taylor’s past, present and future reflect its rich history – Taylor leaps into new millennium with solid foundation – Taylor student speak out – Guest columnist: Partnering with Papa – Guest columnist: What in the world? Money and materialism – Letters to the editor – Guest columnist: Taylor’s …

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The Bison, December 10, 1999 Dec 1999

The Bison, December 10, 1999

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

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The Daily Egyptian, December 10, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 1999

The Daily Egyptian, December 10, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 1999

No abstract provided.

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The Daily Egyptian, December 09, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 1999

The Daily Egyptian, December 09, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 1999

No abstract provided.

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The Three Hundred And Seventy-Eighth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate Dec 1999

The Three Hundred And Seventy-Eighth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

No abstract provided.

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