Health
Cattle Vaccine Handling and Management Guidelines: Recent research indicates vaccine efficacy is at risk due to improper handling and storage by retailers and livestock producers. Following these guidelines will help ensure effective disease immunity in livestock. The guidelines cover vaccine purchasing, storage in refrigerators and in chute-side coolers, handling, injection techniques, and disposal.
Nutrition
Selenium Supplementation Strategies for Livestock in Oregon: Provides an overview of the role of selenium in the diet of livestock, and discusses selenium supplementation rates and supplementation methods. Lists guidelines for assessing livestock's selenium status and summarizes research useful to Oregon livestock producers.
Understanding Your Forage Test Results: Assists livestock producers in using forage analysis as a management tool to improve livestock nutrition. Explains the information commonly found in most laboratory forage reports: feed, protein, carbohydrates, fat, energy, ash, minerals, pH, nitrates, RFV, and RFQ.
Dairy Production
Managing Dairy Grazing for More Milk and Profit: This publication covers how pasture grows, understanding grazing systems, and forage quality. It also covers advanced tools for managing high-intensity grazing systems, such as the feed wedge (also called pasture wedge or grazing wedge).
eOrganic Dairy Production System Topics: Articles and other resources on transitioning to organic dairy, organic dairy certification, cropping systems, grazing management, nutrition, herd health, and milk quality.
Mastitis Control on Organic Dairies in the United States: Learn about the challenges and solutions organic dairy producers face in controlling mastitis and harvesting quality milk.
2016 Integrated Pest Management Guide for Organic Dairies: This guide provides an outline of practices for the management of external arthropod pests such as flies,lice, mites and grubs on organic dairy farms. Left uncontrolled, these pests negatively impact animal health and production. While organic production has recently increased, information about how to farm organically is still in need of considerably more research. This guide compiles the most currently available information on dairy arthropod pests, but acknowledges that effective means of organic control are insufficient for some of these pests. As new information becomes available, it will be incorporated into future revisions of this guide. While critical to organic dairy production, this guide does not include information on nutrition, feed stocks, or internal parasites of dairy cattle.