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Ive heard of guys clipping or torching hair on beef cow udders to help prevent mastitis or help with calf scours. How many do this and do you clip or torch? Worthwhile? We calve in barns since too cold and breed for show cattle so need to watch calving close so confined.

I wasn't trying to sell a system. I was trying to get an opinion of someone who has a system so I could make a decision of what to get.

What do you use for feedlot software programs? We are looking to implement RFID to scale head and then download to computer off of that. Hoping to use info to track cattle better.

What do you use for your H brace for fence? Looking to make a bunch for 3 wire high tensile electric fence. Might do railroad ties but didn't know if a 6 inch round post would work for the ends and a 4 inch post for the cross. Also anyone here have luck with floating braces? Living in Wisconsin...

Anyone on here have any experience in putting in a cattle underpass? We have a home farm where we calve and AI of 80 acres and across the road we have 150 acre rotational grazing system we are setting up this year. I was thinking that an underpass would be really handy since there is a corner...

How reliable are hydraulic post pounders? Do they work as well as advertised? If they hit a rock with the post will it stop or somehow get through? We are looking at doing a bunch of fence this summer and would like to save time over drilling out holes and filling them back in. We have someone...

I live in Wisconsin. We have about 150 cows that I am looking to do rotational grazing with. I have a chunk of land of about 150 acres that is rather hilly so it is some hay, corn, and about 25 acres pasture at the moment. Just looking to see how much it would save us in cow feed costs to...

World Beef Expo is a great event. The main reason entry fees keep increasing is that the cost of the fairgrounds keeps getting increased by State Fair Park. The show used to have better funding but that has gone away so they have to pay major amounts of money to rent the grounds. The tie outs...

How much do you figure it costs to feed your cows per day on pasture? Looking to compare it to how much it costs to feed hay... Please let me know where you are from and if you use any rotational grazing, mob, or continuous. Thanks