Factsheets
Understanding hormone use in beef
Bedded hoop barn for beef cattle
Iowa's Agriculture: A Sustainable System
Alternative systems for beef herds with high land costs
- Alternative finishing systems
- Three practical ways to boost pasture production (IBC07-11)
- Short-term and supplemental forages can help stretch production on fewer acres (IBC07-9)
- A look at the costs associated with alternative grazing systems (IBC07-7)
- Iowa Cattle Grazing Survey Part 1: Statistics and demographics (IBC07-5)
- Iowa Cattle Grazing Survey Part 2: Custom grazing cow-calf leasing (IBC07-6)
- Alternatives for reducing forage acres (IBC07-8)
- Managing pasture feeding areas (IBC07-10)
- Using distillers grains in alternative cow-calf production systems (IBC07-4)
Environmental management of feedlots
- Regulations for building or expanding open lot and confined beef and dairy operations
- Facts about the phosphorus index
- Best environmental practices
- Developing whole-farm nutrient plans
- Vegetative filter strips for open feedlot runoff treatment
- Manure management resources for open feedlot operators
Health-related issues
Preparing for winter feeding
- Grazing corn residue: Using resources and reducing costs
- Managing cow herd feed needs
- Stretching hay supplies for beef cow herds in a shortage year
- High-concentrate feeding beef cows to reduce hay needs
National Animal Identification System
Using ethanol co-products
- Supplementing distillers' grain to beef cattle grazing on pasture
- Distillers grains in feedlot diets: The impact on phosphorous excretion (IBC 29)
- Factors affecting the economics of corn co-products in cattle feeding (IBC 28)
- Distillers grains for beef cows (IBC 26)
- Ethanol co-products for cattle: The process and products (IBC 18)
- Ethanol co-products for cattle: Wet distillers feeds for feetlot cattle (IBC 19)
