Chester D . Hughes
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Fall management
for the cow/calf producer
For our local part-time beef
cow/calf operators I offer several
suggestions as part of your fall
management program. First of all,
pregnancy check your cows and
bred heifers. You cannot afford to
winter open cows or cows with bad
udders, teeth, or lameness. These
cows will cost you money and
should be culled from the herd.
Next, utilize crop residues. You
can usually get up to 60 days of
feed from cornstalk fields by
grazing. Cows will need 3-5 lbs. of
legume hay per day if they are on
cornstalk fields longer than 40
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You should spread manure
as efficiently as you store it
Modern manure storage systems manure handling needs. Tough
may have rendered your conven- Scavenger spreaders with unique,
tional spreader obsolete. patented, square-auger design to
You know the problems. Slow, spread most kinds of manure—
sloppy load- liquid, serra-solid, pen pack,
outs even hog and poultry—all
from year 'round. The Vanguard
storage. spreader and Equalizer
Uneven ~ loader, specially-designed
spreads to make fast work of load
that leave ing and hauling semi-solid
“hotspots” manure. Or the laige-capacity LT to
all over your fields. And design lim- spread liquid manure quickly and
itations that let your system’s bene- evenly over all kinds of terrain.
fits run nght out your spreader’s
leakv endgate
Now you need equipment '
to handle your manure as ef
ftc iently as you store it Equip
ment that gets you into the field
faster And lets you spread
when it best suits you and your
(.rops.
Hedlund/Martin manufactures
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days. Be sure your mineral mix
contains adequate levels of
calcium and phosphorus.
Remember to worm cattle
managed under intensively
managed conditions including
cows wintered in daylots.
It is a good practice to separate
yearling and two-year-old heifers
from mature cows, because they
need more and better feed during
the winter. Feed replacement
heifer calves so they will gain 1.2 to
1.5 pounds per day. They really
need adequate growth to be bred as
yearlings to calve as two-year-
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olds! Positively save your best hay
to feed after calving. Cows two to
four months prior to calving can
utilize lower quality hay ef
fectively.
Finally, evaluate your 1985 calf
crop and answer these questions:
Were calves born in 90 days or
less? Did you wean a 95 percent
calf crop per cow wintered 9 Did
your calves average 450 to 550
pounds or better at weaning 7 If
you answer no to any of these
questions, you need to make some
definite changes >n vnnr program
AAA reports record Certified Angus Beef sales
ST. JOSEPH, MO. - Sales of
Certified Angus Beef hit an all
time record of 15.9 million pounds
during the American Angus
Association’s fiscal year ended
September 30.
The 1985 sales volume was up 96
percent over last year’s 7.6 million
pounds, and up nearly 1,000 per
cent over the 1.6 million pounds of
Certified Angus Beef (CAB)
marketed in 1983, reports Richard
Spader, executive vice president of
the American Angus Association.
Registrations of purebred Angus
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a full line of support equipment for
vour semi-solid and liquid ma
nure handling
needs. Basin
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Basin pumps Submersible pumps.
All designed for convenient opera
tion and low maintenance. Rug
gedly built to stand up to hard use—
year after year
Slop by your local Hedlund/
Martin dealer for a demonstration
or write Dept H-2, Hedlund/
Martin, Inc , 841 Kut/town Road,
Myerstown, PA 17067, for free
information
717-933-4151
Lancaster Farming Saturday, October 19,1985-03
to positively affect the economics
of your beef enterprise.
Just consider this formula for
beef herd profits...weaning weight
x percent calf crop x pnce/lb. x
number of head sold, minus the
cost of production = beef herd
profit.
Maximum performance does not
always mean maximum profits,
because the pnce/lb. and weight
sold Hops not always offset added
cattle during the fiscal year totaled
156,150 head, more than enough to
maintain the Angus Association’s
position as the world's largest beef
cattle registry association in terms
of annua' Transfers
of Angus to new owners totaled
102,503 head. The Association also
added 1,955 new members to its
rolls during the year plus 824 new
junior members.
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costs associated with more in
tensive management. However,
since many costs are usually fixed
regardless of the weight sold
(many of machinery and equip
ment costs, land, labor, etc.)
production/unit has to be high to be
profitable.
Give some serious thought and
make positive steps for im
provement in the years to come.
For The Solutions To Your
Manure Handling Problems,
Talk To Your
Hedlund-Martin Dealer
Today
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