Ruminating with RealAg

Ruminating with RealAg
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Ruminating with RealAg is a RealAgriculture podcast series hosted by Amber Bell that focuses on all things bovine. We’re here to chew the cud on everything from the latest in cattle genetics, to how to keep your herd happy with rotational grazing, to winter feeding techniques and everything in between.

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Ruminating with RealAg, Ep 12: The value of out-wintering and the nutrition behind it

With many cattle producers trying to cut costs, increase the productivity of their land, and have a tiny bit of a personal life, the idea of “out-wintering” has become a little more attractive in comparison to chilly daily feedings of…

Date: 2024-10-30

Ruminating with RealAg, Ep 11: Selecting genetics for the herd you want

There are many things that are outside of a producer’s control when raising cattle. Rain, or lack of it, market prices, and predators can make farming livestock a risky business. Then there is the risk of having cows that do…

Date: 2024-09-25

Ruminating with RealAg, Ep. 10 — Sub-Cutaneous, Modified-Live and Over-Whelming: Developing a Vaccination Protocol

There’s no doubt that having a vaccination protocol on hand could save booster misses, bring all farm employees to the same page and improve overall confidence in our herd health programs. But, developing that protocol can be more than a little…

Date: 2015-07-09

Ruminating with RealAg — Ep. 9: The Looming WLPIP Calf Coverage Deadline

The Western Livestock Price Insurance Program’s (WLPIP) calf coverage deadline is May 28, 2015. WLPIP is a risk management program, allowing producers to pay a premium for forward price coverage. Should market price fall below their coverage level for their…

Date: 2015-05-19

Ruminating with RealAg — Managing and Preventing Scours in Calves

When you have livestock, you have scouring stock. Or, at least that’s how it seems some years, when any spare time you thought you might have is spent mixing, smelling and tubing warm electrolytes. In this episode of Ruminating with…

Date: 2015-04-30
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