Articles written by Don Llewellyn
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Beef cow type, then and now, Part 2
Welcome to 2024! Where has the time gone? It seems like yesterday that I was thinking that graduating from high school in 1977 would be an eternity in the future. Now I appreciate... — Updated 3/5/2024
Beef cow type: Then and now
This month’s article isn’t so much a Mythbuster, but a retrospective on where we’ve been with cow type and the implications of the changes over time. As I write these lines it’s... — Updated 12/26/2023
Are mRNA vaccines used in cattle?
It’s been a pretty nice season to go to the fairs around the region—in most cases not too hot and not too cool. Always nice to be able to connect with both our adult and youth pro... — Updated 9/26/2023
Beef Cattle Mythbuster
Myth: The mystique of “water belly”. Here’s one that is especially relevant for our youth producers and their animals for the fair. I think most cattle producers who have been... — Updated 11/29/2022
Beef Cattle Mythbuster
Myth: It makes no difference if one calculates cow feed intake on a dry matter basis or an as-fed basis. Answer: Oh, but it does matter! Okay, here we go! This is one of those topics that probably caused more confusion among my... — Updated 9/15/2022
Beef Cattle Mythbuster
When you request forage quality analysis from a laboratory, do all methods of analysis provide the same results? Feed/forage analysis is an important part of developing feeding... — Updated 6/28/2022