Help Your Cattle Avoid Heat Stress

Help Your Cattle Avoid Heat Stress

The Midwest is definitely feeling the heat, prompting extra concern about heat stress and dehydration. Allison VanDerWal, a nutritional Formulation Specialist with Form-A-Feed, talks about these issues and what cattle producers can do to minimize risk.

SDS-PAGE and Protease Efficiency

This episode of the Sioux Nation Podcast features Dr. Seth Monegue, Technical Service Manager for CBS Bio Platforms, who explains how SDS-PAGE can be used to determine protease efficiency.

Manage Calf Stress through Nutrition

From birth through weaning and beyond, calves face a variety of stressors that can impact health, performance, and long-term productivity. Yet,  nutrition can play a major role—not just in responding to stress, but in preventing it. On today's episode, Dr. Carla Kuehn from Form-A-Feed illustrates how we can actively manage and even prevent calf stress through smart nutrition strategies.

Spring Cattle Conversations

Spring is an exciting time in livestock. To help manage the excitement, Dr. Mick Harding returns to the Sioux Nation Podcast to share production tips and strategies to help producers successfully move through calving and into warmer summer months.

SD Nitrogen Farm Trials and Why They Matter

South Dakota State University Extension is recruiting farmers to participate in on-farm nitrogen fertilizer trials, and the Sioux Nation Podcast to explain what that looks like—and why it matters—is Jason Clark, SDSU Extension Soil Fertility Specialist.