Impact of Locoweed Poisoning on Grazing Steer Weight Gains

Locoweed Poisoning of Horses

programs. INTRODUCTION Locoweed has been reported to be the most widespread poisonous plant problem in the Western United States. It has a substantial economic impact, and may be responsible for the loss of more than $300 million in annual income due to deaths of poisoned livestock. The major contributors to these poisonings are plants from the Astragalus (Figure 1) and Oxytropis (Figure 2) gen...

Utilization of Genetically Enhanced Corn Residue on Grazing Steer Performance

Effects of stable flies (Diptera: Muscidae) on weight gains of grazing yearling cattle.

Differences in weight gains caused by stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), on grazing yearling steer/calves averaged 0.2 kg per steer in a 3-yr study on canyon range pastures in West Central Nebraska, Stable fly numbers averaged 0.85 per front leg on treated calves and 3.64 per front leg on control calves. In 2 of the 3 yr after the grazing trials were completed, the calves were placed in a ...

Low quality roughages for steers grazing wheat pasture. I. Effect on weight gains and bloat.

The effect of feeding low quality roughages (LQR) on live and carcass weight gains and the incidence and severity of bloat of stocker cattle grazed on wheat pasture was evaluated in a 3 yr study. One hundred eighty-five steer calves (172 kg mean initial weight) grazed clean-tilled wheat pasture and were either fed no LQR or had ad libitum access to wheat straw (WS) or sorghum-Sudan hay (SS). Gr...

the impact of peer review on efl reviewers writing proficiency

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