Animal measuring is one of the most important tasks in farm management. If you are a farmer, you should appreciate the importance of staying up-to-date with all facts about individual animals. A livestock scale is a critical tool if you are looking to optimize the performance of your animals.

Weighing scales play a crucial role in farming operations, as they streamline the harvest management process from scratch. These feature-rich scales come with advanced technologies that offer tremendous value to the agriculture and farming industry.

These days, collecting and measuring data about livestock performance is standard practice, and cattle weight calculations are used to estimate everything from proper feed quantity and medication dosage to calving intervals, adjusted weaning weights, pounds weaned per exposed female, calf growth, cow weight or condition, and herd production efficiency.

Reducing stress at weaning can help protect calves against bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and set them up for success in the feedlot. Calves are especially vulnerable and immune compromised when weaning-related stressors – namely separation from the cow, vaccination, shipping, commingling and nutritional changes – all happen within a short timeframe. Here are five weaning management suggestions to prepare calves nutritionally and immunologically to face these challenges.

In the cow-calf business, fall profits depend heavily on decisions producers make in the spring for both cows and calves. Keeping calves healthy and prepared for top marketing programs and getting cows rebred are universal keys to ranching success.

Today’s tight cattle supplies and record-high prices have created a value in calves that has never been imagined before. Protecting this valuable asset through sound health management has never made more sense or been relatively more affordable than it is now.

In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of the fungus Penicillium notatum, now known as Penicillium chrysogenum.

The single-most important factor in the survival of beef calves immediately after birth is receiving adequate colostrum and the protective antibodies it contains. Calves are born without any significant level of antibody protection and the only way a calf can access life-saving antibodies and other important immune factors is through the ingestion of colostrum from its mother in the first few hours after birth.