This bunk management style is all about feeding at maximum efficiency. Zach Smith, associate professor of beef cattle nutrition and management, South Dakota State University “Slick bunk ...

While limit feeding often occurs when producers ... applications in the short-run “Typically, the cattle can clean up their bunks completely within about a five-to-six-hour timeframe,” says ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — When feeding cattle, it’s important to know the ... is that if they don’t have the building blocks in the bunk and we’re expecting them to gain super well, and say ...

“This is a 240-head individual feeding ... the cattle industry in the years ahead. “When that tag is scanned by the reader, we can decide whether the animal has access to a specific bunk.

The number of cattle in large U.S. feedlots on Jan. 1 at 11.8 million head was down 107,000 and 0.9% from a year earlier. Of the largest feedlot states, Texas and Kansas were each down 80,000 head ...

The report on cattle and calves on feed for the processing market in the U.S. for feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.8 million head on Jan. 1, 2025, which was 1% below ...

Calves under one year of age are more susceptible than older cattle. Older cattle frequently have been exposed ... of rainfall per month provide excellent propagation conditions. Feed bunks or ...

By Grant Crawford, University of Minnesota Extension Recent expansion in the ethanol industry has resulted in larger amounts of corn milling by-products for animal feed. These distillers grains ...