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Category Archives: Cattle

Grazing Trials

July 21, 2019by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Stocking density is a term used in the animal agriculture industry to define the number of pounds of animal mass present on a single acre of land (expressed as lbs./ac). […]

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Cattle, Forage, Management

How Cattle Move

June 29, 2019by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

With calving slowly coming to a close, the priority on the farm has shifted to pasture management and branding. With the dry conditions we have been having, pasture management has […]

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Cattle, Forage, Management

Have you had your glass of milk today?

May 25, 2019by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Spring on the Ranch

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Cattle, Management, Rural Life

Is this good water?

July 22, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Water sources on the prairie largely depend on spring runoff to fill dugouts. During the heat of summer these dugouts can rapidly be depleted as cattle drink and water is […]

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Biodiversity, Cattle

Annual check up time

June 10, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

We brought the bulls in today for their annual check up, vaccinations and fertility analysis. In preparation for the breeding season we want to ensure that they are physically sound […]

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Cattle

Why Yearlings?

May 7, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Over the last couple of weeks we have been completing spring processing of the yearlings going to grass. If you have been reading this blog over the last year you have noticed we […]

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Cattle

Calving on Pasture

April 30, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Producers adjust their calving time and system to meet their needs. A producer may calve in February and March to avoid the craziness of calving during spring seeding. This comes […]

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Cattle

Vaccinating Cows

April 9, 2017by Grant Ranch 1 Comment

Over the last several weeks we have been vaccinating the cows. Why Vaccinate? Disease prevention is an important component of any beef herd’s management. A producer has three management options […]

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Cattle

Spring Runoff

March 19, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Water, water, everywhere. Living in the semi-arid prairie we always appreciate water, whatever form it comes in and how inconvenient it may be. Last weekend we received about 10 inches of […]

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Cattle, Rural Life

Things Happen

February 25, 2017by Grant Ranch Leave a comment

Our heifers are scheduled to start calving about April 10th and the cows April 20th. At the end of February we were not expecting to see calves while feeding. But […]

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Cattle

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