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It’s not really “pink slime”
There’s been a lot of hype in the media over the last few days about “pink slime” in ground beef. There’s also been a lot of misinformation about the stuff. It’s not slime. It’s beef. There are two...
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Beef cow-calf farm
Our cattle farm is a cow-calf farm. That means that we have cows that get pregnant and have a calf every year. We sell the calves in the fall, and keep the cows to have more calves. Most cow-calf farms...
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Beef cattle feedlots
In our last post, we talked about a cow-calf farm. The goal on a cow-calf farm is to have a new crop of calves every year, and to sell the calves sometime around 4-8 months old. Once the calves are...
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What is a hormone, anyway?
Hormones get a lot of bad press, especially when people are talking about food. So what are these things, why do we care, and are they good or bad? Hormones are basically messengers. They are little...
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Hormones in beef
In the last post, we learned about what hormones are and why they are so important for everybody’s every day life. So if hormones are a necessary part of life, why have they gotten so much attention in...
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How much hormone are we talking about?
Okay. Hormones are used in some beef farming. But just how much hormone is used? And how does that compare to the amount of hormone that cattle (and people, for that matter) already have? The Iowa Beef...
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What is an antibiotic?
We’ve all heard about antibiotics, and chances are good that we’ve all taken them at some time or another. But what are they, exactly? The word “antibiotic” is commonly used to describe medications...
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Antibiotics in beef farming
So now that we know what antibiotics actually are, how are they used in beef farming? When most people think of antibiotics, they think about pills or capsules. In small animal veterinary medicine, we...
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Feed additives in beef farming
We already talked about how beef farmers use antibiotics to keep their animals healthy. In cattle, almost all antibiotics need to be given by an injection because the rumen microbes (bacteria and...
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Moving already!
I’m happy to say that I have moved this blog from the wordpress.com site to its new home at http://www.agricultured.org. If you are subscribed to email updates through Feedburner (if you signed up with...
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