Journal Articles
Season of Fire Manipulates Bud Bank Dynamics in Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie
Fire and Nitrogren Alter Axillary Bud Number and Activity in Purple Threeawn
Grazing Distribution and Diet Quality of Angus, Brangus, and Brahman Cows in the Chihuahuan Desert
Extension Publications
Fire Appreciation Day Abstracts Summaries and Abstracts from Fire Appreciation Day
EWF-034 Managing Heat for Wildlife on Texas Rangelands
ERM-021 Fire Effects on Wildlife
ERM-022 Legal Barriers to Prescribed Burning
ERM-023 Understanding Wildfire Response
ERM037_Wildfire Ready Checklist
NREM-2899 Prescribed Burn Equipment
NREM-2902 Cut and Stuff Practices for Enhanced Cedar Control with Prescribed Fire
NREM-2903 Prescribed Burning: Spotfires and Escapes
ERM-035 Prescribed Burning Liability and Insurance Considerations
Videos
Living with Texas Fire: Burn Plan
Living with Texas Fire: Communications, Radios, and Maps
Living with Texas Fire: Drip Torch Safety
Living with Texas Fire: Drip Torch Troublehooting
Living with Texas Fire: Fire Application
Living with Texas Fire: Fire Tools
Living with Texas Fire: Fire Weather Forecast, Interpreting Fire Weather
Living with Texas Fire: Historic Role of Fire
Living with Texas Fire: Ignition Techniques
Living with Texas Fire: Landowner’s Perspective on Prescribed Burns
Living with Texas Fire: On-Site Weather
Living with Texas Fire: Prescribed Burn Associations
Living with Texas Fire: Prescribed Burn Effects on Livestock
Living with Texas Fire: Prescribed Burn Effects on Wildlife
Living with Texas Fire: Proper Fuel Mix
Living with Texas Fire: Protective Clothing
Living with Texas Fire: Sprayer Rigs
Living with Texas Fire: Types of Fire Behavior
Living with Texas Fire: Who to Contact Before Burning
Living with Texas Fire: Wildfire Mitigation
Living with Texas Fire: Great Plains Fire Science Exchange
Living with Texas Fire: Planning Weather Conditions
Living with Texas Fire: Using Goats with Fire
Living with Texas Fire: The Importance of Burning
Ring-Fire Ignition Method – TAMU AgriLife Extension
Fire Up Your Beef – National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
Prescribed Burn Goals and Objectives – NRCS
Websites
Texas Department of Agriculture – Prescribed Burn Board
Fire Weather Intelligence Portal
Great Plains Fire Science Exchange
Georgia Forestry Commission Fire Weather System
Department of Animal Science – Beef Publications
Department of Animal Science
http://animalscience.tamu.edu/
Texas AgriLife Extension Service – Beef Cattle
http://animalscience.tamu.edu/academics/beef/
Beef Cattle Publications
animalscience.tamu.edu/academics/beef/publications/
Texas Beef Quality Producers program
http://www.texasbeefquality.com
Markets and Market Information
CME Agricultural Commodities Futures and Options Quotes
http://www.cme.com/trading/dta/del/product_list.html?ProductType=com
KSU AgManager – Information on Crops, Livestock,
Farm Management and Policy
http://www.agmanager.info/livestock/marketing/default.asp
USDA-AMS Cattle Auction Reports
http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsmnpubs/cfauction.htm
USDA-AMS National Daily Cattle and Beef Summary
http://www.ams.usda.gov/LSMNpubs/PDF_Daily/DCBS.pdf
Producer Associations
Texas Cattle Feeders Association
http://www.tcfa.org
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
http://www.texascattleraisers.org/
Others
Colorado State University Guide to Poisonous Plants
http://www.vth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/index.cfm
Texas A&M University – Texas Toxic Plants Database
http://texnat.tamu.edu/cmplants/toxic/index.htm
Cow Calf Management
Key Performance Indicator Targets for Beef Cow-calf Operations View
Nutritional Management Section
Mineral supplements for stockers grazing small grains pasture View
Some Points to Consider about Cattle Water View
Summer Protein Supplementation for Stocker Cattle and Nursing Calves on Rangeland – View
Supplementation Strategies for Beef Cattle – View
Range, Pasture and Forages
Moving Cattle Off the Ranch: Drought Alternatives – Information on culling cattle during times of drought. View
Nitrate Accumulation in Forages View
Old World Bluestem Pasture Management Strategies for Panhandle and South Plains View
Prussic Acid in Forages Aug 2017 View
Software and Spreadsheets
OSU RATION CALCULATOR INSTRUCTIONS
OSU_Ration_Calculator_2013 spreadsheet
OSU Cowculator Instructions CR-3280web
OSU Cowculator_2_0 2015 program
Stocker Feeder Cattle Budget Template updated Feb 2, 2016
Forage allocation Cattle Flow Workbook Feb 2015
Fire-grazing
Annotated bibliography of fire-grazing interaction and patch burning studies. Compiled by Stephen Winter (updated Nov 11, 2013)
Annotated bibliography Great Plains Fire Science Exchange version (updated Sep 2014)
Patch burning by Stephen Pyne