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Animals and livestock
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Beef
Cow-calf
Nutrition, reproduction, health and biosecurity for cow/calf farms
Dairy beef
Maximizing the rate of gain, nutrition and crossbreeding
Feedlot
Nutrition, health, facilities and business information for feedlot aged cattle
Handling and best practices
Biosecurity and stockmanship for beef cattle farms
Post-harvest
Information for beef consumers and processors
Events
Workshops, conferences and other learning opportunities
Beef News
Timely articles for and about the beef industry includes events, farm safety and animal health
Dairy
Milking cows
Nutrition, reproduction, milk quality and milking cow facilities
Youngstock
Calves on milk, raising healthy calves and heifer reproduction
Handling and best practices
Biosecurity, common health problems and cattle stockmanship
Pasture-based dairy
Nutrition, reproduction and facilities for cows on pasture
Precision dairy
Milking dairy cows with robots and other precision dairy investments
Dairy beef
Maximizing the rate of gain, nutrition and crossbreeding
Events
Field days, conferences, workshops
Dairy News
Timely articles about the dairy industry, featured events, farm safety and animal health
Horse
Care and management
Behavior, seasonal care, hoof care, fly control
Health
Preventing and treating diseases, preparing for emergencies, breeding and foals
Nutrition
Feeding hay and forages, supplements, grazing
Pastures and facilities
Good and harmful pasture plants, grazing
Ownership
Legal considerations, economics
Events
Workshops, webinars and other learning opportunities
Poultry
Health
Keeping flocks healthy, avian Influenza, biosecurity
Care and management
Heat stress, reducing salmonella risk, business considerations
National Poultry Improvement Plan
NPIP biosecurity standards and audit process
Small-scale or backyard poultry
Beginner small flock management, disease prevention, meat and egg production
Swine
Nutrition
Pig nutrition and water needs, ingredient quality, distillers dried grains with solubles
Health
Preventing disease, understanding antibiotic regulations
Facilities
Seasonal impacts, saving energy, group sow housing
Production management
Heat stress, weight variation, growth performance
Small-scale production
Deep-straw hoop structures, pasture production, keeping pigs healthy
Welfare
Group-housing, gestating sows, aggression among sows
Courses
PorkBridge, SowBridge, PQA+ and TQA
Manure management
Safety
Manure pit agitation and pumping, preventing and managing manure spills
Land application
How and when to apply, how to sample and analyze for nutrients, calculating economic value
Air and water quality
Biofilters, reducing water quality issues, pathogen control, OFFSET and MinnFARM tools
Events
Workshops and other learning opportunities