Dr. Js Beef

Dr. Glenn Selk, Emertis Animal Scientist with Oklahoma State University is the guest.  He talks about 30 years worth of work on nitrates in forages.  For more information than included in this podcast, please look at these publications:

Oklahoma State University nitrate publication

Kansas State University nitrate publication

Clay Pope with Southern Plains Climate Hub talks about tools that producers can use to help with some of the dramatic weather events and effects on cattle and pasture management.  Links to resources he mentioned can be found here:

Southern Plains Climate Hub

Grass-cast

We discuss grazing standing corn by cows, growing, and grass-finished beef cattle with guest Dr. Jeffrey Lehmkuhler ([email protected]) who is an Extension Beef Cattle Specialist with University of Kentucky.

Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, J.D. ([email protected]), Agricultural Law Specialist within Agricultural Economics Department with Texas A&M AgriLife system is guest.  She talks about ag lease, landowner liability, and estate planning.  Here are some additional links to topics discussed.

https://nationalaglawcenter.org/

http://agecon.okstate.edu/farmtransitions/files/farm-transitions-workbook.pdf

https://agrilife.org/texasaglaw/

https://aglaw.libsyn.com/

Karla Wilke ([email protected]), UNL cow-calf nutritionist is guest.  She discusses some of the "art and science" of confined cow feeding.  Written publications can be found at http://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/html/g2237/build/g2237.htm; https://beef.unl.edu/dry-lot-beef-cowcalf-enterprise; https://beef.unl.edu/cattleproduction/breedingcowsinconfinement.

Dr. KC Olson, Professor in Animal Science at Kansas State University ([email protected]) is guest. He talks about the issues with serecia lespedeza in pasture and some management options for controlling this invasive weed.

Dr. Sandy Johnson, beef specialist and reproductive physiologist with Kansas State University ([email protected]) is guest.  Discussed importance of pregnancy diagnosis in cattle and some examples of how to utilize early pregnancy diagnosis within a variety of management practices.

Guest this week is Dr. Eric Bailey, Extension Beef Specialist from Mizzou ([email protected]).  Our topic is using fire for seedhead suppression in fescue pastures as a method to try and mitigate fescue toxicity issues.

Dr. Dale Blasi, Extension beef specialist, is guest this week.  He is talking about tool www.beefbasis.com to help with future pricing and decision making for cattle marketing decisions.  He also addresses using tools on www.agmanager.info to help with marketing decisions for all classes of livestock.  Dr. Blasi can be reached at [email protected] and Dr. Glynn Tonsor, economist involved in these tools can be reached at [email protected].

Guest for the episode is Dr. AJ Tarpoff ([email protected]), a veterinarian with Kansas State University.  He will talk about why heat stress is an issue, how to manage for it, and addresses water for heat stressed animals.  Some tools he mentions can be found at the links below: https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/clay-center-ne/marc/docs/heat-stress/main/ and https://mesonet.k-state.edu/agriculture/animal/