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Glenn Selk explains why passive immunity is important in the first 24 hours of a calf's life.

The very prolonged cloudy, wet weather with regular bouts of rain has resulted in muddy conditions that require substantially more energy in feeds just to maintain body heat

Spring-Calving Cow Herd
• Keep replacement heifer calves gaining enough to reach their "target" breeding weight (65% mature weight) by spring.
• Start cows on the high magnesium mineral suppleme

Grazing longer, feeding hay and supplementing grain are all ways to keep cattle fed in winter.

Producers should provide high risk baby calves (born to thin first calf heifers or calves that endured a difficult birth) at least 2 quarts of fresh or thawed colostrum within the first 6 hours of life and another 2 qua

Common sense and good observation often are your best decision aids when feeding moldy hay.

Estimating forage usage by cows is an important part of the task of calculating winter feed needs. Hay or standing forage intake must be estimated in order to make the calculations.

Cattle are generally doing fine in spite of the winter weather. Their rumens are keeping them warm, said Travis Mulliniks, beef cattle nutritionist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.

Producers delivering fiber based protein supplements to cows grazing low quality forages may be able to reduce the frequency of supplementation.

During the winter months cattle experience cold stress anytime the effective ambient temperature, which takes into account wind chill, humidity, etc., drops below the lower critical temperature.

Cattle need extra feed while they get acclimated to cold temperatures.

Prussic acid and nitrates affect cattle differently.

Farmers and ranchers from South Dakota to Louisiana have been enduring record rainfall and flooding to care for their cattle.