Stocker/Backgrounder
Stocker heifers out on pasture for the summer
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End Product and Beef Quality
- Beef Grading (Cattlemen's Beef Board and 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
Feed Bunk Management
- Feed Bunk Management (IBCR 201A)
- Feed Bunk Management Standard Operating Procedure (IBCR 201B)
- 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)
- Systems for Backgrounding Beef Cattle (North Dakota State University)
Nutrition
Feed Preparation and Storage
- Handling and Storage Considerations (IBCR200E)
- See more information on facilities
- See more information on forage harvesting and storage techniques.
- Biofuels Co-products in Animal Feeds (University of Minnesota)
- Ethanol Co-products for Cattle:
- Factors Affecting the Economics of Coproducts in Cattle Rations (IBC 200C)
- The Process and Products (IBCR 200A)
- The Changing Distillers Grains for Feedlot Cattle (IBCR 200B)
- Grazing Opportunities with Cereal Rye (IBC 128)
- Making Quality Corn Silage (ISU)
- Missouri Byproducts Resource Guide (University of Minnesota)
- Pricing Forage in the Field (FM 1800)
- Supplementing Distillers Grains to Beef Cattle Grazing on Pasture (IBC 08-01)
- BRaNDS (Beef Ration and Nutrition Decisions Software)
- Limiting Feed Intake with Salt (Beef Cattle Handbook)
- Mineral and Vitamins for Beef Cows (University of Nebraska)
- Mineral Supplements for Beef Cattle (University of Missouri)
