Nutrition & Feeding
Guides on forage systems, supplementation, finishing & marbling and nutrition by stage.
Forage Systems
- Forage Resource Evaluation Before You Expand: A Practical Checklist for Angus ProducersFeed and grass decide how many cows you can carry. Measure them before you add any.
- Low-Quality Hay, High-Quality Results: Getting More from Forage in Angus HerdsPoor hay is not always a problem. It becomes one when you do not know what is wrong with it and feed it blind.
Supplementation
- Protein Supplements in Winter: How Angus Producers Can Use Them BetterProtein is the most common winter supplement. It pays when protein is the limiting nutrient and is wasted when it is not.
- Smart Supplementation Timing: Cutting Feed Costs Without Cutting Growth in Angus CowsThe cheapest supplement is the one fed at the right time, in the right form, to the cows that need it.
- Supplementing Beef Cows: Minerals, Protein, Energy and Creep FeedingPasture rarely provides everything a cow needs all year. How to decide what to supplement, how to feed it and when buying feed is money well spent.
Finishing & Marbling
- Finishing and Marbling: Age at Harvest, Grain Versus Grass and Step-Up RationsMarbling is mostly genetics and a little management. How finishing programs work, what drives USDA grades and why the first week on grain is the dangerous one.
- Hot Carcass Weight and the 1,100-Pound CAB LimitCarcasses keep getting heavier, and the brand's weight cap is now a real decision point.
Nutrition by Stage
- Developing Angus Replacement Heifers: Condition Without OverfeedingTarget weights, steady gains and avoiding the fat heifer trap, for show heifers and for the cow herd alike.
- Feeding the High-Performance Angus Cow: What a Balanced Ration Looks LikeA cow that raises a heavy calf and rebreeds on time needs feed matched to each stage of her year.
- Fetal Programming in Angus Cattle: How Late-Gestation Minerals Can Affect Weaning WeightWhat the research and company-reported trials suggest about feeding the cow for the calf she has not yet raised.
- Heavier Weaning Weights and Angus Nutrition: Why Calories Drive the Calf CropA heavier weaned calf is built from energy, and the calories start with the cow.
- Modern Angus Cows and Old Feeding Habits: Matching Nutrition to GeneticsToday's Angus genetics can do more than a 1995 feeding program lets them show.
- Winter Feeding Angus Cows: Body Condition, Energy and ColdCold weather raises a cow's energy needs. Using body condition scores to feed the right amount at the right time.