Dr. Js Beef

Guest for this weeks episode is Dr. Paul Beck ([email protected]), extension beef specialist that focuses on stocker and feedlot cattle nutrition from Oklahoma State University.  He talks about some recent research about stocking rate and feeding an extruded distillers grains cube to stocker cattle on native and tame grasses.

Guest is Dr. Alison Crane ([email protected]) who is a Sheep and Goat Specialist with Kansas State University.  She talks about grazing cattle, sheep, and goats on this weeks podcast.

Dr. Jaymelynn Farney ([email protected]), beef systems specialist with Kansas State University was presenter for this weeks podcast.  She talks about using corn as a substitute for hay, limit feeding cows, and using ionophores.  All these are potential options for an operation to reduce the amount of hay/forage needed by cows.

Guest for the week is Dr. Travis Mulliniks ([email protected]), range cow production specialist with University of Nebraska.  He talks about nutritional considerations and planning for replacement heifer development.

Guest for the week is Dr. Jay Parsons, Economist with UNL.  He talks about timing of marketing your home raised cattle based on some production and market data from Nebraska.  Some of the tools to help with marketing can be found here:

Beefbasis.com

AgManager.info

Nebraska Ag Econ

Guest this week is Dr. Gregg Hanzlicek ([email protected]) who talks about anaplasmosis in cattle production systems.

Guest is Dr. Bob Weaber ([email protected]), cow-calf specialist with emphasis and genetics and breeding from Kansas State University.  He talks about genetic and some phenotypic selection criteria for your replacement heifer program in this weeks podcast.

Two for One!!  This podcast features two specialist from Oklahoma State University; Dr. Alex Rocateli ([email protected]) and Dr. Jason Warren ([email protected]).  Both of these faculty members are in the Plant & Soil Sciences Department at Oklahoma State University.  They helped provide education on interseeding small grains into bermudagrass pastures, discussion on water usage, and overall productive capacity of pasture ground in this management system.

More information can be found at these extension fact sheets these two referenced: Sod-Seeding Small Grains in Bermudagrass and Spring-Planted Oat for Grazing and Haying

Dr. David Lalman ([email protected]), Professor and Extension specialist with Oklahoma State University was guest on this weeks podcast.  He talks about cow efficiency as related to forage intake, cost of production, and EPDs.  

Dale Helwig, [email protected], was guest on this weeks podcast.  He talks about fertility in fescue forages, especially as related to fall fertility.