Weekly, Oklahoma State University Extension Beef Cattle Nutrition Specialist Paul Beck offers his expertise on the beef cattle industry. This is part of the weekly series known as the “Cow Calf Corner,” published electronically by Dr. Derrell Peel, Mark Johnson, and Beck. Today, he provides highlights from the 2024 Cow-Calf Corner Newsletter:
It has been a great year for the Cow-Calf Corner Newsletter! We shared Beef Cattle Marketing and Management in 53 newsletters and 171 individual articles.
The topics covered in the 53 Cow-Calf Corner Newsletter releases included:
- livestock marketing (59 articles) – discussing the impacts of the increased numbers of heifers in feedlots on herd expansion, the changes in cow markets and culling rates, import and exports in the beef markets, among many other topics.
- Cow calf production and management (58 articles) – describing proper calving and breeding season management, veterinary management and parasitology, bull selection, heifer retention, and nutrition.
- Stocker cattle production and management (25 articles) – including forage management, wheat pasture conditions, wheat pasture bloat, summer supplementation, and the impacts of pre-finishing management on feeder cattle production.
- Other topics such as Emergency management, Extension Programming, and Beef Quality Assurance.
There were 15 authors contributing to the Cow-Calf Corner Newsletter.
Of course, Derrell Peel shared his analysis on the livestock markets every week, but he also gave insights into an international study abroad class he took to Scotland and Ireland in 4 articles.
Mark Johnson had his weekly cow-calf corner tie-in with the Sun Up television program covering timely topics in cow-calf management along with articles on beef quality, advocacy for beef, and Beef Quality Assurance.
Other regular contributors include Area Livestock Extension Specialists: Dana Zook, Brian Freking, Scott Clawson, Mike Trammell, and Britt Hicks; State Livestock Extension Specialists: Rosslyn Biggs, Paul Beck, Eric DeVuyst, Kellie Curry Raper, Barry Whitworth, Courtney Bir and David Lalman; and Graduate Students: Jacee DeVries, Chris Johnson, and Paul Vining.
This year we started on January 1 with 1,661 subscribers. Our edition on December 23 was sent out to 2,532 subscribers (with 2,547 on the list for this week). Thanks to everyone who has shared our newsletter and suggested it to your friends and colleagues to drive this 52% increase in our subscribers this year!
Thank you as well for all your support and here’s to another successful year in 2025!
