Beef Cattle, Animal Science, Agricultural Production

Rangeland Management Series: Factors and Practices that Influence Livestock. . .

Fine-tuning traditional livestock distribution techniques can improve effectiveness. Learn how to use management practices to alter distribution and to attract livestock into targeted grazing areas or away from environmentally critical areas.

Publication Number:: 8217

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Rangeland Management Series: Livestock Management During Drought

When drought conditions reduce the supply of forage feed, ranchers have to allocate the available feed where it will do the herd the most good. This publication gives you a scientific basis for making that decision.

Publication Number:: 8034

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Rangeland Management Series: Using Stage of Maturity to Predict the Quality . .

Livestock on California's foothill rangelands get much of their nutrition from rangeland forage. By observing the maturation rate of forage plants, you can predict their nutritional content at maturity and anticipate the need to provide supplemental feed

Publication Number:: 8019

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Rapid User Guide: Postfire Grazing on California's Intermountain Rangelands

"When can livestock resume grazing?" This is one of the first questions that land managers and producers often ask after a fire. This user guide will walk you through grazing management decisions that should be made in the spring following fire

Publication Number:: 8730

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Sharing Open Space: What to Expect from Grazing Livestock

Part of the Understanding Working Rangelands series. This is a basic guide on what to do if you encounter grazing livestock while hiking, with tips on cattle's flight zone, high-head body language, and how to keep dogs safe around livestock.

Publication Number:: 8516

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The Benefits of Livestock Grazing California's Annual Grasslands

Grazing livestock do a lot more than just fill their bellies with wild grasses. Their grazing also helps keep potential wildfire fuels in check and enhances habitat opportunities for native plants, birds, frogs, salamanders, and more.

Publication Number:: 8517

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The Modern Beef Steer

Rapid growth and muscling are the criteria for the meat-type steer. Learn how to judge steers for the ideal balance of muscle to fat. This is an unaltered scan of the 1978 print publication.

Publication Number:: 2235e

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Understanding and Improving Beef Cattle Carcass Quality

Carcass attributes are figuring more into the cow-calf manager’s decision-making process and yielding financial rewards. Learn what carcass information means and how it can be used it to improve beef quality.

Publication Number:: 8130

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Understanding Working Rangelands: A Year in the Life of a Beef Cow

This publication goes right to the source to give you an idea of cattle’s place and role on California public-access lands with an account of a year’s life, as related by one particularly eloquent beef cow.

Publication Number:: 8526

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