Farm and Ranch News January 2017

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1 Farm and Ranch News January 2017 In This Month's Issue Cleveland County Extension Agriculture on Facebook NEW RULES: The Veterinary Feed Directive Christmas Data from USDA Upcoming Events 1 JANUARY 2017 Veterinary Feed Directive goes into effect OSU Brochure OSU Pecan Production Course Monthly Meetings Feb-Oct 2017 Enrollment Deadline is Feb 14th Fee: $250 / person Details: Registration Form Canola College January 19, 2017 Chisholm Trail Expo Center, Enid, OK 8:00 a.m. For more info call Josh Lofton or Click Here Winter Cattle Conferences Feedlot Receiving Calf Health & Wellbeing Conference Jan 9-11, 2017 OSU Alumni Center in Stillwater, OK Details OQBN Sale Dates It Is Time to Begin the Early Evening Feeding Fact Sheet Spotlight: OSU Cowculator v2.0 Beef Cow Nutrition Evaluation Software Multiple New Fact Sheets Including Sandbur Control, 2 Pasture Management Tools, Horse Internal Parasite Control, and Pond Insect Control New Spring Goat Workshops at Langston University Like Us on Facebook Cleveland County Cooperative Extension Agriculture now has a Facebook page. The goals of the page are to expand Extension's audience, provide expended content beyond what is in the newsletter and on our website, and provide information in a more timely manner. The page will also provide a new way to interact with us here at the office. As always, the information is customized to Cleveland County agriculture and its citizens. NEW RULES: The Veterinary Feed Directive Hopefully this is old news for everyone reading this, but for those who were previously not informed, here are some information and links on the new Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD). The stricter Veterinary Feed Directive rule that went into effect on Jan. 1 requires producers to get authorization from a veterinarian to buy medically important antibiotics and administer them to food animals through feed and drinking water. The VFD covers a category of drugs created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Previously these drugs could be purchased over-the-counter.

2 Feb 7, 2017 McAlester Stockyards April 4, 2017 McAlester Stockyards June 6, 2017 McAlester Stockyards Full Calendar and Details Here Red River Crops Conference Jan 24 & 25, 2017 Childress Event Center, th Street, NW, Childress, TX - Day one - Cotton management - Day two - Pasture, Canola, Annual Forage, Grain Sorghum, and Cover Crop Production and Management Details Brochure Pesticide Applicator Test Help Sessions for 2016 click Here Feb 16, 2017 at OSU-OKC Feb 17, 2017 at the Tulsa County Extension Office at 4116 E. 15th. St, Tulsa, OK Oklahoma Poultry Shows - Nov./Dec. - More info Here As a result of changes to the rule, producers will be required to get authorization from a veterinarian to buy medically important antibiotics and administer them to food animals through feed and drinking water. What will change is we've been used to just walking in the feed store and buying these products. Now a producer is going to have to go to his veterinarian first so he has that document that he's going to give to the feed store so they can sell him this product and use it. The more stringent VFD includes any food animal species, including, but not limited to, cattle, swine and poultry. The new VFD includes over-the-counter products such as chlortetracycline, lincomycin and others. For a veterinarian to issue the required authorization, or prescription, there must be an established veterinarian-clientpatient relationship. Tthe veterinarian has to make a medical judgment on these animals. He's going to have to have enough information to make a diagnosis, and that veterinarian has to be available in case there's an adverse drug reaction or there's failure of therapy. That's the basis for him being able to write this for the producers. The reasoning for tightening the VFD is based on efforts by the FDA to promote more cautious use of antibiotics in food animals. Research has linked use of antibiotics in food animals to a rise in antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in humans. We know this is going to be a process. There's going to be a lot of hurdles. There are going to be many questions that come up, and the FDA knows that. As far as they're concerned, it's going to be mainly an educational process initially for awhile before they would ever start enforcing it from the standpoint of any type of fines or anything like that. Affected drugs used in or on feed transitioning to VFD Here. Affected drugs used in water transitioning to prescription only Here. For more information, visit and search for "Veterinary Feed Directive" and contact the county Extension office. New Fact Sheets and Links Sandbur Control in Bermudagrass Pastures PSS Covers cultural and chemical controls and includes a management calendar

3 Assessing potential Forage Production Using the NRCS Web Soil Survey CR-2597 Using Google Earth for Mapping and Assessing Grazeable Land CR-2595 Midges, Mosquitoes and Ponds NREM Provides life cycle information and how it relates to several control measures in controlling insect pests in ponds Controlling Common Internal Parasites of the Horse VTMD-3976 Plan Grazing Management Using the Oklahoma Grazing Stick - Covers many aspects of pasture managment including estimating forage production based on species, density, height and desired residual height. Great aid to estimating stocking rate for all classes of grazing livestock. Resources for Goat Producers Spring 2017 Workshops at Langston University April 1, Tanning Skins workshop April 29, Goat Field Day May 20, Parasite workshop and FAMACHA training See all Langston University's workshop offerings Here OSU Extension Northeast District Office - Animal Science Includes an OSU Goat Ration Formulator Balance goat herd rations Allows producers to easily enter their own feeds Excel-based Langston University Web Training Site: Click Here Provides links to Quality Producer Certification, Nutrient Calculators, and Goat Quiz Quality Producer Certification - Quality webbased training for new and current goat producers Nutrient Requirement Calculators - Estimate intake and create balanced rations for your goat herd Langston University - Goat Newsletter - Fall 2016 Goat related research, activities, and news. See Past Newsletter Here

4 Christmas Data from USDA Derrell S. Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist USDA issued three NASS livestock reports on December 23 to round out The December Cattle on Feed report showed that December 1 feedlot inventories were 98.6 percent of last year, down about the same amount as last month on a year over year basis. November placements were up 15 percent compared to one year ago, slightly above average pre-report estimates but not a big surprise for markets. November marketings were up 16.6 percent year over year, close to expectations. November 2016 had one additional business compared to last year which accounts for about five percent of the additional placements and marketings. This report confirms that feedlots have continued to move cattle very aggressively in 2017, especially since September. In the last three months, feedlot marketings have exceeded placements by 13.1 percent resulting in net feedlot outflow of 685,000 head, thus leading to the smaller year over year feedlot inventories at the end of This has contributed to the larger than expected cattle slaughter (and beef production) in the last half of It suggests that feedlots have pulled cattle ahead, setting up relatively tighter first quarter 2017 feedlot supplies, particularly if winter weather should impact feedlot production in any significant way. That does not change the fact that feeder supplies will be larger in 2017 and more cattle must move through feedlots in the months ahead. The cattle and beef market supply challenges will continue highlighting the need for strong domestic and international beef demand to moderate larger beef production in The monthly Cold Storage report showed that November cold storage holdings of beef were 4.1 percent above year earlier levels but down fractionally from the October record levels. Cold storage holdings typically increase during the winter so the build-up this fall is mostly seasonal. The relatively large cold storage inventories now reflects the relatively weak ground beef market and changes in beef imports and exports. Flows of beef through cold storage are a small part of total beef supplies and have averaged roughly 3 percent of production on a monthly basis in recent years. Thus, while large cold storage inventories are indicative of some beef market challenges, the inventory level is not a significant beef supply issue.

5 Finally, the quarterly Hogs and Pigs report indicated that the hog supply and pork production challenges are not over going into The December 1 inventory of all hogs was percent of one year ago; breeding hogs were percent of last year and market hogs were percent of one year ago. All categories were above pre-report estimates and are likely to provoke a bearish market reaction. Estimates of the September through November pig crop as well as the farrowing intentions through May of 2017 were all above expectations. This may push 2017 pork production estimates even higher and will add to the supply pressures in all meat markets in the coming months. It Is Time to Begin the Early Evening Feeding Glenn Selk, Oklahoma State University Emeritus Extension Animal Scientist It is generally accepted that adequate supervision at calving has a significant impact on reducing calf mortality. Adequate supervision has been of increasing importance with the higher price of live calves at sale time. On most ranching operations, supervision of the first calf heifers will be best accomplished in daylight hours and the poorest observation takes place in the middle of the night. The easiest and most practical method of inhibiting nighttime calving at present is by feeding cows at night; the physiological mechanism is unknown, but some hormonal effect may be involved. Rumen motility studies indicate the frequency of rumen contractions falls a few hours before parturition. Intraruminal pressure begins to fall in the last 2 weeks of gestation, with a more rapid decline during calving. It has been suggested that night feeding causes intraruminal pressures to rise at night and decline in the daytime. The concept is called the Konefal method. A Canadian rancher, Gus Konefal reported his observations in the 1970's In a follow-up Canadian study of 104 Hereford cows, 38.4% of a group fed at 8:00 am and again at 3:00 pm delivered calves during the day, whereas 79.6% of a group fed at 11:00 am and 9:00 pm. In a more convincing study, 1331 cows on 15 farms in Iowa were fed once daily at dusk, 85% of the calves were born between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm. Kansas State University scientists recorded data on 5 consecutive years in a herd of spring calving crossbred cows at the Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center at Hays, Kansas. They recorded the time of

6 calving (to within the nearest one-half hour). Births that could not be estimated within an hour of occurrence were excluded. Cows were fed forage sorghum hay daily between 4:00 and 6:00 pm. For statistical purposes, the day was divided into four-hour periods. Between 6:00 and 10:00 am, 34.23% of the calves were born; Between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, 21.23% of the calves were born; Between 2:00 and 6:00 pm 29.83% of the calves were born; Between 6:00 and 10:00 pm, 8.41% of the calves were born; Between 10:00 pm and 2:00 am, 4.4% of the calves were born; and Between 2:00 am and 6 am, 1.91% of the calves were born. It is interesting to note that 85.28% of the calves were born between 6:00 am. and 6:00 pm. This is very similar to Iowa data when cows were fed at dusk. These data also revealed that for a majority of a animals in the herd, the time of calving was within 3 hours of the average time of day that cow had previously given birth. Feeding the forage in the early evening hours undoubtedly influenced the percentage of cows calving in daylight hours. (Jaeger and co-workers. Abstracts 2002 Western Section of American Society of Animal Science.) Fact Sheet Spotlight: OSU Cowculator v2.0 Beef Cow Nutrition Evaluation Software Every cattle producer wants to be profitable, and as agriculture producers, one of the best ways to improve profitability is by controlling production costs. Considering that feed costs make up 50 to 70 percent of production costs in cow/calf operations, it should command a great deal of our attention from a cost management standpoint. Though not a new program OSU Cowculator is a great tool to help manage feed costs. The Microsoft Excel based program is simple to use, and only requires basic data on your cow/calf herd. As always, I am available at the Cleveland County Extension office to answer any questions about the program. Here is a link to the program.

7 Here is a link to the OSU fact sheet that goes with it.