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Nutrition

ExEx 2009 -- Feeding Programs for Recently Arrived or Newly Weaned Calves

ExEx 2010 -- Cost Effective Supplementation Programs for Beef Cows Grazing Dormant Winter Range

ExEx 2014 -- Using Frost-Damaged Soybeans in Livestock Rations

ExEx 2019 -- Low Test-Weight Corn for Feedlot Cattle

ExEx 2020 -- Reducing Feed Costs: Is It Possible?

ExEx 2021 -- Cattle Feeding Strategies to Cope with High-Priced Corn

ExEx 2023 -- Utilizing Soyhulls in Livestock and Dairy Rations

ExEx 2032 -- Limit-Feeding Cows in a Drylot

ExEx 2034 -- Incorporating High Nitrate Feeds into Feeding Programs

ExEx 2036 -- Feeding Corn Distiller's Co-Products to Beef Cattle

ExEx 2047 -- Feeding Scab-Infected Wheat to Livestock

ExEx 2048 -- Feeding Corn to Beef Cows
ExEx 2056 -- Feeding Natural Cattle
                    Feeding Natural Cattle Spreadsheet Calculator

ExEx 4006 -- Using Non-Protein Nitrogen to Control Feed Costs

ExEx 4022 -- Distillers Grains for Dairy Cattle

ExEx 4017 -- Harvesting and Feeding Drought-Stressed Corn

ExEx 4018 -- Determining the Value of Drought-Stressed Corn

ExEx 8140 -- Forage Restrictions for Small Grain Herbicides

ExEx 8141 -- Harvest Restrictions for Soybean Herbicides

ExEx 8143 -- Corn Herbicide Restriction: Forage or Grazing Dry Conditions

Forages

ExEx 2033 -- Managing Pastures During and After Drought

ExEx 2043 -- The Use of Turnips for Extending the Grazing Season

ExEx 2044 -- Grazing Corn Stalks

ExEx 2046 -- Drought and Stocking Rate Effects on Forage Yield from Western South Dakota Rangeland

ExEx 4001 -- Take an Accurate Forage Sample

ExEx 4013 -- Estimating the Dollar Value of Hay

ExEx 4002 -- Interpreting Hay and Haylage Analysis

ExEx 4023 -- Alternative Forages for Dairy Cattle: Soybeans and Sunflowers

ExEx 4027 -- Interpreting Corn Silage Analysis

ExEx 8048 -- Haying/Grazing Restrictions - Drouth: Grain/Grass Crop Herbicide

ExEx 8056 -- Winter Injury in Alfalfa:  Assessment and Management

ExEx 8057 -- Forage Potential of Cicer Milkvetch

ExEx 8059 -- Forage Value of Spring Oats and Triticale

ExEx 8062 -- Forage Potential of Birdsfoot Trefoil

ExEx 8070 -- Cowpeas:  A New Forage Crop for South Dakota?

ExEx 8077 -- Use a Microwave Oven to Determine Moisture Content of Forages

ExEx 8139 -- Haying and Grazing Restrictions for Pasture and CRP

ExEx 8141 -- Harvest Restrictions for Soybean Herbicides

ExEx 8142 -- Producing Annual and Alternative Crops for Forage

ExEx 8143 -- Corn Herbicide Restriction: Forage or Grazing Dry Conditions

ExEx 8149 -- Understanding Relative Feed Value (RFV) and Relative Forage Quality (RFG)

ExEx 8150 -- Ensiling Immature or Frost Damaged Corn

ExEx 8151 -- Frost Damaged or Immature Corn: Forage Options

ExEx 8152 -- Utilizing Annual Crops for Forage in Western South Dakota

ExEx 11002 -- Feeding Kochia to South Dakota Livestock

Reproduction

FS921A -- The Bovine Estrous Cycle

FS921B -- Detection of Standing Estrus

FS 921C -- Understanding Estrus Synchronization in Cattle

ExEx 2018 -- Effects of High Heat and Humidity on Reproduction in Cattle

Health

ExEx 2042 -- Interpretation of Water Analysis for Livestock Suitability

ExEx 4015 -- Causes and Prevention: Nitrate Poisoning of Livestock

ExEx 4016 -- Causes and Prevention: Prussic Acid Poisoning of Livestock

ExEx 4024 -- Dealing with Heat Stress in Dairy Cows

ExEx 5042 -- Custom Beef Cow Wintering Costs

ExEx 8144 -- Nitrate Toxicity from Weeds Drought Conditions

ExEx 11005 -- Johne's Disease in the Beef Herd

ExEx 11006 -- Weak Calf Syndrome

ExEx 11007 -- Blue-Green Algae Poisoning

ExEx 11008 -- Atypical Interstitial Pneumonia In Range Cattle

ExEx 11010 -- Frequently Asked Questions: Anthrax

ExEx 11011 -- Handling Heat Stress in Cattle

ExEx 11015 -- Reducing the Risk of Animal-to-Human Disease Transmission at Fairs, Achievement Days, and Petting Zoos

FS 907 -- Aflatoxins Hazards in Grain / Aflatoxicosis and Livestock

Biosecurity Considerations for Beef Producers Purchasing Animals

Foot and Mouth Disease

Foot and Mouth Disease Resources

Management

CATTLE 95-14 -- Sequencing of Feed Ingredients for Rations Mixing

CATTLE 00-9 -- An Evaluation of Three Feed-Mixing Wagons

ExEx 1020 -- Reducing Feedlot Mud Problems

ExEx 1050 -- What Causes Salinity in Dams and Dugouts?

ExEx 2013 -- Evaluating Cowherd Productivity with CHAPS

ExEx 2029 -- Managing Feedlot Cattle to Reduce Nutrient Waste

ExEx 2030 -- How to Measure Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Using the HANNA Portable Conductivity Meter

ExEx 2031 -- Early Weaning Beef Calves

ExEx 2045 -- Control of Stable Flies and House Flies

ExEx 2049 -- Fenceline Weaning for Beef Cattle

ExEx 4001 -- Take and Accurate Forage Sample

ExEx 5041 -- Short on Feed? Move the Feed to the Livestock, or the Livestock to the Feed?

ExEx 8145 -- Obtain a Representative Plant Tissue Sample for Testing

ESS 803A -- Odor Management Information for Livestock Operations

ESS 803B -- Recommended Strategies for Odor Control in Confinement Swine Operations

ESS 803C -- Recommended Strategies for Odor Control in Confinement Beef Cattle Operations

ESS 803D -- Recommended Strategies for Odor Control in Dairy Operations

Economics

Ess 47 -- Value Based Marketing Systems and You, the Producer (includes Beef Herd Management Worksheet)

ExEx 2015 -- Pricing Feeder Cattle: Using Breakeven Analysis to Establish a Purchase Price

ExEx 5019 -- Determining Pasture Rents

ExEx 5026 -- Pasture Lease 1:  Cash Rent Per Head Per Month

ExEx 5027 -- Pasture Lease 2:  Cash Rent Based on Acres

ExEx 5028 -- Pasture Lease 3:  Rent to be Paid by Share of Grain

ExEx 5032 -- Livestock Contract Feeding Arrangements

ExEx 5038 -- South Dakota Stocker Cattle Prices

ExEx 5039 -- Economics of Grazing or Haying Conservation Reserve Program Land

ExEx 5045 -- Beef Cow Custom Feeding Agreement

ExEx 5047 -- Putting a Value on Corn Stalks

ExEx 5048 -- Pasture and Grazing Land Price Information

ExEx 5055 -- How to Capture High Calf Prices

FS 927 -- Livestock Risk Protection: Feeder Cattle, Fed Cattle, and Swine

South Dakota Crop and Livestock Budgets

Carcass

ExEx 2011 -- Impact of Technology on Meat Safety

ExEx 11003 -- Injection Site Blemishes:  Questions and Answers for Beef Producers

New Insights in the Development of Marbling in Beef Cattle

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