OSU Beef Extension provides a variety of programs and resources for beef cattle producers.
Cow-Calf
Receiving & Feedlot
Stocker Cattle
An explanation on how stocking rates effect livestock production, how stocking rates correlate to harvest efficiency and calculations behind stocking rates.
Instructions on how to construct a chute side vaccine cooler to make for an effective and timely process when vaccinating cattle.
A series of questions and answers regarding the formulation and application of the Oklahoma Super Gold program.
The comparisons between corn usage in human food, cattle feed and diesel.
Provides distinction between formula pricing versus grid pricing and implications from using alternative base prices with premium-discount grids.
With user-supplied data, the program is aimed to help wheat stocker producer’s project economic profitability of their wheat stocker enterprises.
Wheat stocker producers can learn to predict the best time to stop grazing winter wheat and understand how to interpret the results.
A summary of how EPDs are used in selection for purebred and commercial herds and how to calculate pedigree EPDs.