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    Beef Cattle: Environmental Benefits, Not Burdens

    Take a drive down a county road in Alabama until you see fences and green pastures. If you stop and look, that is a picture of the basis for...
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    Alabama Grazing Academy

    The Alabama Grazing Academy is an advanced grazing school that works with producers to increase the efficiency of grazing management on thei...
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    2022 Forage Weed Management Survey

    Do you manage forage pasture, hayfields, or livestock? Do you have weeds in your farming operation? If you answered yes to these questions, ...
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    Importance of Mineral Supplementation & Mineral Tags

    Understanding nutrition and mineral requirements and evaluating product ingredients and quality are steps toward selecting appropriate suppl...
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    Animal, Forage & Feed Management After a Flood

    Farmers face numerous challenges when their pastureland is affected by floods. General Tips Inventory livestock. Immediately after a f...
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    Alabama Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Resources

    What is BQA? Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) is a nationally coordinated, state implemented program that provides systematic information to Un...
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    Animal Science and Forages Producer Spotlight

    The Alabama Cooperative Extension System's animal sciences and forages team is proud to highlight livestock and forages producers that have ...
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    Concepts of Basic Swine Nutrition

    Efficient and profitable swine production depends on understanding nutrition because nutrition represents 60% to 75% of the total cost of sw...
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    Beef Herd Management Strategies

    Learn key management practices to improve sustainability in small herd operations. Cow-calf operation sustainability involv...
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