Animals and livestock
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Beef
Nutrition
Managing nutrition for cattle including feedlot cattle, mother cows and calves
Health
Heat stress, feedlot health, quality grade
Production management
Feed bunks, reducing feed costs and implants
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
Health and comfort
Biosecurity, common health problems, cow sensors, calf health
Business management
Margins, business planning, maintaining stability
Nutrition
Feed and supplement rations, forages
Pastures and facilities
Facilities for cow comfort, compost bedded barn, robotics, managing pasture
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