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I asked this question on Agtalk as well, so anyone that reads both sites bear with me. We are currently dry rolling barley for a backgrounding ration. We are looking at moving into finishing more of our own cattle and I was studying more on feeding barley in finishing diets last night. I came...

I will continue to use creosote as long as I can get them, even at the current price. Considering the durability of them, I think they can at least double the price of penta or green treated posts and still be a better deal simply because of the durability of them in our climate.

Thanks for the input. We had a corn field several years ago that had an estimated 30bu down. I strip grazed that with a large group of cows and was unable to keep them happy and I ended up with several with long toes. I have sunflower fields adjacent to each field that I will probably give...

We have lots of corn stalks that need grazed this year that had more wind and weed damage than normal. As a result we have a lot more corn down than normal and more corn down than roughage left in the fields. I am really concerned about having enough roughage to keep the cows full so they...

I will try calling the number, but last I heard they had gone out of business. That is the style I had in mind to try to build. One of the neighbors has one and is real happy with the way it works.

We have an enormous problem this winter thanks to persistent wind and a massive amount off tumbleweeds. I found one company listing a fence cleaner made in ND but when I called on it I nearly swallowed my tongue when he told me he wanted $25,900 FOB for it. So I am planning on trying to make...

That was so heartfelt I can't bring myself to ruin it with a goat joke! If you lived closer I might loan you my post pounder.

Look for research from the Gudmunson Sandhills Lab, part of UNL. They have been doing research for quite a few years on winter grazing, instead of feeding. They developed several different ways to deal with forage quality, and incidentally they are the researchers that provided a lot of the...

Thanks for all of the input. One more question, what age of calf are you folks weaning? We have used the nose flaps. Didn't work well enough for us to make it worth the trouble to use them again. Because of some other work that had to be done we ended up with them on for about ten days...

This is a question for those of you who have done this and actually made it work. We have tried it in the past but haven't had a lot of luck with it. The calves didn't stay put. Does age of the calves have much of an effect on the success of fence line weaning? Do you need to have hot wire...

We have them here, in the Nebraska panhandle, on any crested that isn't grazed. Figure out a way to chew the grass to the ground and you won't have anymore trouble with them. I wouldn't worry too much about them killing the stand. We have mostly crested in the CRP around here and the bugs...

It was irrigated, but we had at 6-8 inches of rain in June. It was wet enough that I think we only had to irrigate it 2 or 3 times.

More silage chopping pictures. Swathing oats. Oats and windrow Closeup of the feed. Three windrows rolled together. They rolled three windrows together on the end rows and they rolled five together the rest of the circle. Unloading trucks. Packing silage. There are more pictures in the...

We just got our oats and peas chopped last week. It is also our first year for having silage. I was checking them a couple of weeks prior to that and started noticing all of these oat plants with heads sticking up quite a ways above all the rest of the crop. After looking a little closer at...

Leadplant?

We have had pretty good weather for calving. It has been pretty cool, but slightly below average on rain. Other than a handful of days in the 80s we haven't gotten much out of the 70s for the whole month of May. After the last several years that feels downright cold for May. After the...

I took my camera with me today when I checked. The cows in the pictures have all calved within the last two weeks. Two Glacier Chateau daughters A three year old with a Make Mimi grandson at side. This old girl is 10 this spring, she seems to be holding up pretty good. A five year old...

You may not have said that all public lands grazing should be ended, but that is exactly what Jon Marvel wants. If you aren't against public lands grazing you should make sure that you stay as far away from that demagogue as you possibly can. In other words, posting articles that he is quoted...

Anyone that quotes Jon Marvel and the Western Watershed Project is not someone in search of truth. He is a highly partisan demagogue interested only in furthering his agenda of removal of all public lands grazing. If he told me the sky was blue I would have to double check to make sure the...

With winter calving your primary problems are health and feed related. With late spring or early summer calving your biggest problem is going to be keeping your neighbors bulls out. This past calving season I had calves start coming about a month before they should have, out of at least four...