Extension Service Site Publications

• (2023) The Prompter/Rancher Review - Winter 2023 True Armyworm Monitoring, Record Keeping to Add Value, Feeding for Rebreeding, Specialty Crop Info, and upcoming classes and events.
• (2020) Cyanobacterium research - Oregon Beef Council Report This report is on research done in response to the death of 23 steers near Lakeview, OR in June 2017 was due to poisoning by microcystin toxin produced by the newly recognized Anabaena sp. JUN03 cyanobacterium. See page 33 of the report.
• (2019) OSU Beef Nutrition Workbook A comprehensive workbook covering many aspects of beef cattle nutrition. Includes worksheets for users to apply the concepts to their own operations. Chapter titles are:
  1. Animal Nutrient Requirements
  2. Forage Value
  3. Evaluating Feeds
  4. Minerals and Vitamins
  5. Ration Balancing
  6. Supplements and Supplementation Strategies
  7. Body Condition
  8. Heifer Nutrition and Development
• (2018) Recognizing and Identifying Three Invasive Annual Grasses in the Great Basin Desert Invasive annual grasses are a threat to the Great Basin desert ecosystem. They compromise habitat diversity for important wildlife species such as the greater sage-grouse. They shorten the grazing season for livestock, and do not provide as much consistent forage biomass and quality as perennial native bunchgrasses. This publication describes how to spot three of these invasive grasses (downy brome, medusahead, and ventanata dubia) and provides information on control methods and grazing suitability. This publication can be downloaded in two different formats. The "PDF" button provides a standard, letter-sized document with five pages. The supplemental file is designed as an eight-page booklet that can be printed on a standard, letter-size sheet of paper. This version should be printed on both sides of one sheet of paper (flip on long edge) in landscape format and folded in half.