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    Preconditioning Systems and Management Practices for Beef Calves
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    Spring Mineral Supplementation Considerations
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    Building a Foundation for Beef Cattle Record Keeping

    Record keeping is valuable in beef production. Beef cattle record keeping is a tool to document and evaluate production information. Product...
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  • Commercial beef cattle

    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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    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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  • Beef cattle eating at a hay ring

    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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  • Hereford and angus cattle

    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

    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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  • Commercial cattle in a pasture

    Beef Herd Management Strategies

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

    Managing External Parasites of Beef Cattle in the Southeast

    Beef cattle production represents a multibillion dollar industry in the southeastern United States. External parasites (ectoparasites) are t...
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    Reproductive Goals and Measures for a Successful Cow-Calf Operation

    The success of a beef cow-calf operation depends upon the number of calves produced and marketed each year. Fewer calves to market will redu...
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    Bioavailability of Mineral Supplements in Beef Cattle Nutrition

    The presence of a mineral in forage, water, feed, or supplement does not constitute utilization of the mineral in cattle bodily processes. U...
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