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Beef Cow/Calf Planner  

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The Cow/Calf Planner is a Cow/Calf Management Calendar that offers timely information and suggestions on managing your herd utilizing five different management categories:

CALVING - Calving is a critical time of year that requires equipment, supplies, labor and facility preparations. This calendar prepares you for the calving season and offers suggestions to manage your calf crop.

BREEDING - Reproduction is one of the most important economical traits in the beef industry. Breeding season success is a reflection of your herd management practices of the previous year. This calendar helps you prepare and manage for the breeding season and offers tips on breeding season success.

MANAGEMENT - Management plays a large role in all aspects of an operation and greatly impacts economics. This calendar provides strategies for managing areas of an operation that can easily be over-looked and have major impacts on your economic returns and production goals.

NUTRITION - Nutrition impacts reproduction, lactation and performance in a herd. Nutrition is an area of management that should be monitored year round. This calendar includes suggestions to ensure that your cows, replacement heifers, bulls and calves are conditioned to exceed your management expectations.

HEALTH - Health, along with nutrition, can have a major impact on reproduction, lactation and performance in a herd and greatly affect carcass quality. This calendar provides a monthly schedule for vaccinating your herd and suggestions for monitoring herd health.

This planner is offered in two formats: an Interactive Cow/Calf Planner Excel Worksheet provides you topics under each category relevant to the time of year and gives you pertinent information for each topic by touching the cell for that topic where a window will appear. The Cow/Calf Planner Print Sheet allows you to print each calendar month with all the pertinent information for each topic. Both files contain the exact same information.