Feedlot Management
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2014 Iowa Feedlot Operator Survey (IBC 102)
2014 Iowa Feedlot Operators Summary (IBC 102A)
End Product and Beef Quality
- Beef Grading (National Cattlemen's Beef Association)
- Ultrasound Guidelines Council (website)
- Understanding Grid Marketing: How Quality Grades and Grid Conditions Affect Carcass Value (Certified Angus Beef)
Management
Feed Additives and Veterinary Feed Directive
- Veterinary Feed Directive (FDA)
- Feeding CTC to Feedlot Cattle (IBC 121)
Feed Bunk Management
- Feed Bunk Management (IBCR 201A)
- Feed Bunk Management Standard Operating Procedure (IBCR 201B)
Growth Promotants
- Economic Analysis of Pharmaceutical Technologies in Modern Beef Production (ISU)
- Growth Promotant Implants for Cattle (IBC 113)
- Understanding Hormone Use in Beef Cattle (IBC 48)
Monitoring Daily Break-evens
Professional Feedlots
- 2010 Nebraska Feedyard Labor Cost Benchmarks and Historical Trends (University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension)
- What Defines a Professional Feedlot? (IBC)
Videos
- February Feedlot Webinar Series 2024
- Managing Foot Health (0:37:11)
- Beef cattle market outlook and managing price risk (0:32:06)
- Pros and Cons of Facility Types (0:026:02)
- Value of Necropsies (0:31:55)
- Feedlot Webinar Beef X Dairy Update (0:22:51)
- Feedyard Friday
- Developing an Implant Strategy (0:01:42)
- Recordkeeping (0:01:44)
- Clean Your Settling Basin (0:01:45)
- Decade in Review (0:03:41)
- Comparing Feed Costs (0:02:20)
- Bunk Management (0:01:20)
- Cold Weather (0:01:43)
- Working Cattle in Cold Weather (0:02:26)
- Managing Mud (0:02:25)
- Bunk Management (0:02:27)
- Manure Sampling (0:01:52)
- Manure Value (0:02:37)
- Shaker Box (0:02:53)
- Heat Stress (0:02:27)
- Feedlot Considerations During Pandemic (webinar recordings)
Nutrition
Feed Preparation and Storage
- Feed storage facilities
- Handling and Storage Considerations (IBCR 200E)
- Harvesting and storage techniques
Feedstuffs
- Biofuels Coproducts in Animal Feeds (University of Minnesota)
- CenUSA Research on Switchgrass as Roughage in Feedlot Diets
- Ethanol Coproducts for Cattle:
- The Process and Products (IBCR 200A)
- The Changing Distillers Grains for Feedlot Cattle (IBCR 200B)
- Factors Affecting the Economics of Coproducts in Cattle Rations (IBC 200C)
- Grain Drying, Handling and Storage Handbook (MWPS 13)
- Iowa Grain Quality Initiative grain storage resources
- Making Quality Corn Silage (IBC)
- Supplementing Distillers Grains to Beef Cattle Grazing on Pasture (IBC 08-01)
Rations
- BRaNDS (Beef Ration and Nutrition Decisions Software)
- Mineral Supplements for Beef Cattle (University of Missouri)
- Nutritional Management of the Calf After Weaning (IBC)
Requirements
- Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle: Eighth Revised Edition (ordering information The National Academies Press)
