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August 2011 Articles

Shipping Day on Riser's Family Farms
LSU AgCenter beef specialist offers tips to prevent cattle theft
Use of Pharmaceuticals in Food-Producing Animals
FEEDLOT PLACEMENTS REMAIN LARGE
Art, science combine in reducing sweet potato diseases
Langston Places at State 4-H Ambassador Talk
Proper landscape watering is important
Exchange Rates Favoring U.S. Beef Exports
Growth-Promoting Implants and Our Food Supply
Is Beef From Naturally-Managed Cattle Better Than Beef From Conventionally-Manag
Improving Grazing Management
Updates and New Recommendations for Equine Deworming
• Timing management practices?
Statement by Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Regarding
Management Determines the Selling Price of Feeder Calves
Retail Staple Food Prices Rise in First Quarter
LSU AgCenter agents help prisoners prepare for reentry
DROUGHT AID AVAILABLE FOR LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Cutting Corners: Easy Strawberry Pie
Fun Facts
Fun Facts
FEEDLOT UPDATE:
Foreign Oil Imports:
New food safety law shifts focus to prevention
Home sales, Japan, mills featured at forestry forum
Equine--The Golden Years
Louisiana Young Ag Producers Program participants selected
'Louisiana Honey Plants' publication released by LSU AgCenter
AFBF Applauds House Passage of Veterinary Health Bill
AFBF Intervenes in Pesticide Lawsuit
Budget cuts force LSU AgCenter to phase out 3 research stations
Did You Know?
Learn all about blueberries on new website
Fun Facts
Commissioner Strain and LDAF celebrate Ag Day 2011
Fun Facts
Strain: It's A Great Day in Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry
Beekeepers can remove, manage honeybee swarms
New vitamin D dietary rates announced
New USDA Standards to Reduce Foodborne Pathogens in Poultry
Farmers Prevail in Court Decision on EPA Livestock Rules
Louisiana agriculture up 20 percent in 2010 to $9.9 billion
Statement by Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Regarding
Fun Facts
Cutting Corners: Quick and Easy Banana Pudding
News Brief:
VERY STRONG CALF AND YEARLING PRICES
Don't Let Tetany Be a Problem For You This Year
10 Traits of Top Managers
Louisiana Junior Cattlemen of the Year Award
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack's Statement on Record Forecast for U.S. Farm Expor
Crawfish season off to sluggish start
LSU AgCenter experts help crawfish farmers increase their yields
Non-native grass threatens La. forests
News Brief:
Knowing your rights can protect your 'heir property'
Physical activity has no age limit
EPA GHG Regulations Brings 'Double Economic Jolt' to Ag
Over-regulation Continues to Hurt the Banking Industry
News Brief:
Strain Mississippi River resolution approved by NASDA
LAFA distributes $11.2 million for poultry grower aid
87 Percent of Young Farmers, Ranchers Express More Optimism
Earth-Kind roses are low-maintenance options
News Brief:
News Brief:
Cutting Corners: Hot Chicken Salad

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Timing management practices?

Timing management practices? By Donald Hubbell, Resident Director in Charge, Livestock and Forestry Research Station, UofA
Timing is everything. We structure our daily lives around the clock.
Livestock production should be considered a “timed” event, much
like calf roping or steer wrestling. Try to beat the clock, or weather, to get the biggest payoff. Conditions change and can be different in the same calendar month each year, but overall they usually turn out to be about the same. Planning for these changes and sticking to a time line pays off more times than not. One of the timed events, like planting winter annuals the first week in September, regardless of
conditions, has always paid off. In summer 2010, there was essentially no moisture for planting winter annuals at the end of August. However, we planted anyway on Sept. 2 and 3. The results? We had cattle turned out on time – Nov. 2 – and grazed the same number of steers, at 500 pounds an acre, we always grazed in the fall. We grazed that set of steers till Feb. 18 and had one of our best-ever average daily gain years for the fall group. We fertilized on Feb. 15 and put a new set of steers in at 1,250 pounds per acre on Feb. 23. We have been doing this consistently since the fall of 1996. There have been wet years, dry years, cold years, warm years, even armyworm years. Except for planting dates, which never change more than one or two days either way, the grazing time that animals are grazing and gaining never changes more than 10 days either way. This has become something that we count on to be there for our overall operation. I do not expect this to change much except for the genetics and quality of the sale barn cattle we
use for these projects. Establishing stockpiles of fescue and bermudagrass for deferred grazing has saved us untold bales of hay. While we did not get the “big” stockpiles we usually get, we were able to keep most cattle on stockpiled forage until late December. Hay production was limited for us, just like many other operations in the area and across the state. Having covered storage and
carryover from previous years will carry us through the winter without having to purchase hay or de-stock. Had we not fertilized these stockpiled areas around Sept. 1, we would have been feeding hay to the majority of our herds by Nov. 1. These are just two examples of how timing keeps our operation consistent and on schedule with the production cycle that we have established. Does your “timing” need a change?

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