Dr. Andrew GriffithAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsP: 865-974-7480 Failure is not a word that anyone ever wants to utter, but failure can happen to anybody. Probably the biggest…
Cattle Economics: Failure Can Happen to Anybody
Cattle Nutrition: Hay Season is Upon Us!
Dr. Katie MasonAssistant Professor and Extension Beef Cattle Nutrition SpecialistDepartment of Animal ScienceP: 865-974-8941 It’s hard to believe that it is already time to make hay. Cutting, tedding, raking, and…
Cattle Economics: Making Money in the Spring and Summer with Cattle
Dr. Andrew GriffithAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsP: 865-974-7480 The beginning of May still has a few hints of spring in the South especially when moisture is adequate, but…
Forage Management: Summer Annuals for Pasture or Hay
Dr. Gary BatesDirector and ProfessorUT Beef & Forage CenterP: 865-974-7324 Almost everyone agrees that tall fescue is the foundation of the beef cattle industry in Tennessee. Fescue is very productive…
Cattle Reproduction: Nothing To It But Do It
Dr. Justin RhinehartProfessor and Extension Beef Cattle SpecialistDepartment of Animal ScienceP: 931-486-2129 I have heard the phrase “nothing to it but to do it” all my life. For me, it…
Cattle Genomics: Foot and Leg EPDs: New Tools for Selecting Structurally Sound Cattle
Dr. Troy RowanAssistant ProfessorUTIA Genomics Center for the Advancement of AgricultureP: 865-974-3190 There is a quote from the famed British mathematician and physicist Lord Kelvin that states, “If you cannot…
Cattle Nutrition: The Value of Feedback
Dr. Katie MasonAssistant Professor and Extension Beef Cattle Nutrition SpecialistDepartment of Animal ScienceP: 865-974-8941 It’s hard to believe that April is already here! I am 8 months into this position…
Cattle Economics: Stocker Cattle Sins and Servitude
Dr. Andrew GriffithAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsP: 865-974-7480 The stocker cattle business can be extremely rewarding when a producer follows all of the rules and devotes his or…
Forage Management: Making Haylage
Dr. Gary BatesDirector and ProfessorUT Beef & Forage CenterP: 865-974-7324 One of the forage production methods that has changed during my career is the process of making haylage. My first…
Cattle Nutrition: When Feed Prices are High… Cattle Still Have to Eat
Dr. Katie MasonAssistant Professor and Extension Beef Cattle Nutrition SpecialistDepartment of Animal ScienceP: 865-974-8941 No matter the challenge, be it high feed prices or significant weather events, cattle still have…
