VM 577P Herd Production Medicine - 2003
Internet Supplemental Materials
Applied Veterinary Ruminant Nutrition (Dr. Robert Van
Saun, Penn State)
Feeding for 2 (Microsoft Word -
right click on link and select "Open in New Window" to download)
Florida Ruminant Nutrition Conference
http://www.animal.ufl.edu/dairy/2002ruminantconference/default.htm
Read the paper on minerals for dairy and beef cattle (Spears)
and the mineral nutrition for grazing beef cattle (Arthington).
Mid-South Ruminant Nutrition Conference
http://www.txanc.org/proceedings.html
Read the papers dealing with transition cow management (dairy) as well as
other topics (heifer growth, minerals, etc).
Penn State Dairy Nutrition website
http://www.das.psu.edu/dcn/
Read the papers covering the new forage
particle separator and the feeding management of dry cows and calves.
Service Definition & Producer Economics Exercise
Later Spreadsheet Additions:
Dairy Information Resource and Management Education Center (John Fetrow's
Dairy Analysis Spreadsheets)
http://www.dirmec.umn.edu/downloadspreads.htm
Livestock Enterprise Budget Spreadsheet URL's:
- Goggle http://www.google.com/
- http://cdp.wisc.edu/Resources/crop/general/enteracc.pdf
- Determining your unit costs of producing a hundred weight of calf
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/cow/handouts/detuncst.pdf
- Characteristics and Production Costs of U.S. Cow-Calf Operations
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/sb974-3/sb974-3.pdf
- Critical Control Points for Profitability in the Cow-Calf Enterprise
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/ansci/beefreports/asl1750.pdf
- Dairy Excel's 15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness
http://ohioline.osu.edu/b864/
- U.S. Top Dairies: Benchmarks for Success
http://www.wdmc.org/2001/WDMC2001p147-156.pdf
- Milk Production Costs in 2000 on Selected Wisconsin Dairy Farms
http://cdp.wisc.edu/pdf/00cost.pdf
- Idaho Livestock Enterprise Budgets (beef, dairy, sheep, swine)
http://www.ag.uidaho.edu/aers/publications/Livestock_CARE/livestock00/livestock%202000.htm
- Iowa 2002 Livestock Enterprise Budgets (swine, beef cow-calf, stocker,
feedlot, dairy)
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/FM1815.pdf
- Montana Decision Support Software (beef cow-calf - spreadsheet and pdf)
http://www.montana.edu/wwwextec/software/software.htm
- Oklahoma 2000 Livestock Enterprise Budgets (beef cow-calf, stocker -
spreadsheet)
http://www.agecon.okstate.edu/budgets/stlvstk.htm
- Oregon - (beef cow-calf, extensive state-wide enterprise budgets)
http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/EdMat/
- Iowa State University Extension Excel spreadsheets
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/livestock/html/b1-21.html
- Colorado 2000-01 Livestock Enterprise Budgets (beef cow-calf, no dairy)
http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/ABM/abm32.pdf
- USDA Livestock and Grain Market News Branch
http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/mncs/index.htm
- Non-traded feedstuff pricing
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/pdf/a1-65.pdf
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/aginfo/farmmgmt/pubs/Cornvalue02.pdf
http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/data/1965/186/15vall.pdf
http://farmmanagement.aers.psu.edu/tools/CornSilage.doc
- Pasture Pricing
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/plantsci/hay/r1092w.htm
http://jrm.library.arizona.edu/data/1965/186/15vall.pdf
http://www.forage.com/stories/view.php?story=37
Professional Fees Spreadsheet URL's:
Cattle Production
Phillips, CJ (2000). Principles of Cattle Production
http://www.cabi-publishing.org/Bookshop/Readingroom/0851994385.asp
Dairy Herd Evaluation Forms
Dairy herd evaluation forms on "Wisconsin Food Animal Production Medicine" http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/dms/fapm/index.html
Forms page
http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/dms/fapm/forms.htm
The WSU animal science students have likely used this form on a dairy
http://www.ansci.wsu.edu/courses/as472/fox/Fox_Field_Trip_Oct_2001.pdf
Other On-line Evaluation Materials
Feeding Program: Quality Control Checklist
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/dairy/g1394.htm
On-Farm Tools for Monitoring Feeding and Production (Texas)
http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~sstokes/vegasgb.html
Troubleshooting
Rations: What the Cows Have to Tell You (MB Hall, U Florida)
(alternate URL http://www.ces.uga.edu/Agriculture/asdsvm/Dairyscience/rations.htm
)
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