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November 2019 • Hay Issues
This year’s growing season was challenged by excessive rainfall in many parts of the country which delayed first cutting hay harvest. This harvest delay resulted in plants with advanced maturity and significantly lower quality than normal. To add insult to injury, many of these same areas of the country also had a drier than normal mid-to late summer, which lowered the quantity of available hay.
To talk about this year’s hay crop and ramifications for beef producers we have two expert guests joining us. Our 1st guest is Dr. Bain Wilson, Extension Beef Specialist from Virginia Tech and our second guest is Dave Natzke editor of Progressive Publishing and contributor to Progressive Forage Magazine.
December 2019 • Fetal programing
Recent research with beef cows has shown that what we feed the cow during gestation and early lactation can have a significant effect on lifetime progeny performance. This altered progeny performance, caused by how we feed the cow, has been commonly called fetal programming, lactational programming, or developmental programming. Most producers understand the need to have cows in the proper BCS at calving and beginning of the breeding season, but often don’t think much about how cow nutrition can impact things like lifetime progeny immune function, reproduction, and carcass characteristics.