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2024

January

  • Spicebush, Wright’s Beebrush
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Summer/Fall 2023
  • Dormant Season Grazing Considerations
  • New University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication

Best Practices for Healthy Horsekeeping


2023

March

  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: 2022-23
  • Here’s the Beef: Basics for Selecting a Bull
  • Virtual Fence
  • Spring Toxic Plants
  • Arizona Livestock Incident Response Team (ALIRT)
  • Monitoring Minute: Sampling Vegetation Attributes Interagency Technical Reference
  • Producer Updates
    • Medically Important Antimicrobial for Food Producing Animals Moving to Prescription Only
    • Animal Electronic ID (RFID) Requirement Proposed by APHIS
    • FMD Vaccine Bank
    • Testing for Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) Persistently Infected Animals
    • Mineral and Protein Supplementation
  • Kansas State Beef Cattle Experts Offer Tips on Ways to Reduce Parasite Loads in Young Animals

June

  • Apache Plume
  • Monitoring Minute: Utilization and Residual Measurements Interagency Technical Reference
  • Research Corner: Quantifying the Ovarian Dynamic in Heat Stressed Developing Heifers
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Spring 2023
  • Residual Feed Intake as a Selection Tool for Cow Herd Efficiency

2022

February

  • Monitoring Minute: Measuring Density
  • ALIRT Bulletins
    • Horse Disease: West Nile Virus
    • Horse Disease: Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)
    • Horse Disease: Strangles
  • What can the Arizona Beef Quality Assurance Class do for Arizona Producers?
  • Nitrate Toxicity
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary
  • Virtual Fence Project Overview

May

  • Pale Wolfberry
  • Selecting an Optimum Breeding Season Length
  • Monitoring Minute: Repeat Photography
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Spring 2021-22
  • Research Corner: Grazing Behavior, Diet Selection, and Meat Characteristics of Criollo Cattle
  • Examining Forage Use by Horses, Cattle, & Elk on the Heber Wild Horse Territory
  • New Range and Livestock University of Arizona Extension Publications:
    • Ranch Scale Drought Monitoring Tools
    • Monitoring Drought in Arizona
    • Using Repeat Photography as a Tool to Monitor Rangelands
    • Novel Approaches to Ecological Restoration in Semi-arid and Arid Habitats
    • Knowing What is Normal for Your Horse
    • Cow Body Condition Score to Manage Your Beef Herd
    • Injection Site Management Tips
    • How and Why of Calf Castration
    • Backyard Chickens and Ectoparasites: Introduction and Management
  • Recent Extension BOLO’s
    • Poultry Disease: Avian Influenza
    • Horse Disease: Strangles
    • Horse Disease: West Nile Virus
    • Horse Disease: Equine Infectious Anemia

August

  • Arizona Walnut
  • Monitoring Minute: Fetch
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Summer 2022
  • Controlled Breeding Seasons
  • Research Corner: Virtual Fence
  • Recent advances in the impact of heat stress in beef finishing cattle under controlled heat stress conditions

December

  • Monitoring Minute – Ground Rules and Field Preparation
  • Is Artificial Insemination Right for Your Operation?
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Fall 2022

2021
January

  • Plains Lovegrass
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Fall 2020
  • Drought & Rangelands

April

  • Blue Grama
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Winter 2020-21
  • Monitoring Minute: Measuring Cover
  • Another Drought Consideration: Toxic Plants
  • During Tough Times – Return to Basics
  • Nutrition Considerations for Livestock During Drought
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    • Blister Beetle
    • U.S. Drought Monitor
    • Financial Options for Livestock Producers During National Disasters

July

  • Arizona Cottontop
  • Monitoring Minute: Measuring Frequency
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Spring/Summer 2021
  • Addressing Issues with Cattle and Horses in the Arizona Heat

November

  • Wild Cotton
  • Monitoring Minute: The Dry-Weight-Rank Method of Estimating Plant Species Composition
  • Arizona Seasonal Climate Summary: Summer/Fall 2021
  • Value Added Programs – Third Party Audit
  • What’s in your Lambing or Calving Toolbox?