A look into the costs of mud in terms of cow and calf performance 

The second session of the 2022 Ohio State University Extension Beef Team’s Virtual Beef School was hosted via ZOOM on February 21st. The second half of that session included a look at OSU Animal Sciences’ PhD candidate Kirsten Nickles’ research on how performance in a cow/calf operation might be impacted by the mud we’ve experienced in recent winters. In this 8 minute excerpt from that session, Nickles summarizes what might be the long term costs of that mud in terms of cow and calf performance if adequate supplemental nutrition is not provided to compensate for the added cow energy requirements created by a muddy environment.