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I've been buying bulk feed and picking it up in a grain cart and then filling 5 gallon buckets. Up to 10 buckets a day right now and will likely end up feeding as many as 20 a day this winter between the finishing group and the weaned calves. Does anyone have experience with the various...

I have one pivot leased this year and am managing another. Neither make full circles so there is some challenge there. The leases pivot is on very sandy ground and has sudan planted under it. I'm not sure the gpm from the wells but it isn't enough to water as much as I would like. Wells pump...

I Finally had a wet chemistry analysis done on some pecans that are available to me. This is a sample of 100% pecan pieces. What I have available is different mixes of pecans and pecan shell from 5-25% shell. I figured it would be easier to test 100% pecan and then do the math for the product...

Here's the short story. We've got 2 steers on feed to be butchered in about 90 days. For the last 30 days they have been on free choice coastal bermuda hay that tested 15% protein and around 8 pounds of a finisher feed that claims 14% protein and 4% fat. So I have been playing around with the...

Let me give ya'll a few details to help understand the situation. We have planted and fertilized 13 acres of BMR Sudan. 150 lbs of fert once it got 8 inches tall. It is also irrigated. Got the water running right now. We plan to graze it so we can cut more coastal Bermuda for hay. We will...

Currently 38,000 acre fire in eastland county and northern comanche county. We heard carbon almost completely burned up and quit a few building in ranger on fire. 3 other fires in this part of the world too. Still 20-30 mph winds. Any tips on helping the cattle if it comes to that? Do we cut...

Does anyone have any experience with stocking rate on irrigated Coastal Bermuda Pastures? We are likely going to cut less hay or no hay this year due to fertilizer cost and are trying to figure out an estimate of stocking rate for an irrigated pasture. This is a fairly healthy patch that gets a...

Is there a formula or guide for feeding more based on cold weather? I have been using the Cowculator program to get my ration where I want it for cost and weight management. I am wondering how much if any extra needs to be fed during these cold spells below freezing? In the past I would always...

Got my Results back from the 3 cuttings of coastal Bermuda. I used one of those probes that cuts a little core into the bale. The reason for 4 samples is I sampled the first cutting twice to see what would happen. I pulled samples on every 3 or 4 bales out of 120 and put it all in a bucket...

We have around 3 times the amount of hay we will need to make it through the winter this year. We will be keeping some as roll over for next year in case cost rise or we have a drought, but with irrigated hay fields we will always be able to make enough to get by. We've decided we don't want to...

I have recently started working at a pecan shelling plant and have found there's a certain amount of waste that no one seems to know what to do with. Most of it is very small meal that has a small amount of shell particles in it. It's not economically feasible to remove the shell so it's...