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Nebraska Extension Beef Educators

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Box Butte, Dawes, Sheridan, Sioux Counties

U.S. Meat Animal Research Center Collaboration

Studies UNL collaborates on with the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska.

Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center

Since its dedication in 1990, Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center has served as an information source for the beef industry.  With its primary focus in beef cattle production systems, it provides training of veterinary and graduate students, veterinary practitioners, beef producers and industry stakeholders. Specifically available are educational opportunities through clinical electives and professional training for veterinary students as well as continuing education events, including workshops, forums and outreach educational programs.

Bovine Congestive Heart Failure (BCHF) in Feedlot Cattle

Bovine congestive heart failure (BCHF) is increasingly recognized as an emerging condition of cattle in the Western Great Plains of the United States and Canada.  BCHF is an untreatable, fatal condition involving pulmonary hypertension that culminates in right ventricular failure.  BCHF outbreaks are occurring in operations feeding well-managed, high genetic merit cattle.

2024 Nebraska Beef Cattle Research Report

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Agricultural Research Division
University of Nebraska Extension
Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

PDF version of complete report (PDF 2.4MB, 92 pages)
NOTE: All research article links below are to PDF files.