Beef

  • beef cattle eating hayBeefiness Production Information
  • Beef Health Information
  • Pasture and Crops for Beef Product
  • four-H Youth Plan Information
  • Buildings and Equipment for Beef
  • Farm Taxes and Recordkeeping
  • Marketing
  • USDA Marketing News and Standards
  • Beef Quality Assurance
  • Maine Beef Related Organizations

Beef Production Information

  • Bulletin # 1058 Caring for a Dogie of Unknown Age
  • Message #1201 Farmer Skill and Knowledge Checklist: Beefiness Production
  • Maine Beefiness Newsletter Sign-up, news and events of interest to beef producers in Maine from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Maine Department of Agriculture, Maine Beef Producers, and other agriculture organizations in Maine.
  • Agricultural Alternatives, Penn State University. Includes fact sheets on Beef Backgrounding Product, Beef Moo-cow-Calf Product, Dairy Beef, and Feeding Beef Cattle.
  • Iowa Beef Heart, Iowa Land Academy
  • Nebraska Beef Cattle Production, University of Nebraska Lincoln. Includes learning modules, beef home report course, current Ag prices, turn a profit tips, beef forum and more.
  • Kentucky Beef Book, University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service
  • U of M Beef Center, Academy of Minnesota
  • Montana Extension Beef Cattle Program, Montana State University
  • Oklahoma State Academy Beef Fact Sheets, over 120 publications on all aspects of beef production
  • Raising Beef Cattle on a Few Acres, Utah State University. Good for lawn beef.

Beef Health Information

  • Message # 1056 Cattle Health Handbook – Storey Publishing $29.95
  • Cooperative Extension Veterinarian Diagnostic Laboratory
  • Bulletin #1031 Beef Cattle Herd Wellness Vaccination Guide for Maine
  • Maine Beast Disease Traceability Program: (DACF) includes information on tagging and record keeping

Pasture and Crops for Beef Production

  • Grazing Guide, Northeast Pasture Consortium
  • Maine Hay Directory, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
  • Maine Pasture Management Class, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
  • Maine Straw Directory, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
  • UMaine Analytical Lab, Soil and Manure Testing, University of Maine
  • Dairy One, Forage and Feed Analysis

4-H Youth Program Information

  • Maine iv-H Beef Projects and Programs, University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Buildings and Equipment for Beef

  • Bulletin #1021 Space Planning for Small-scale, Multipurpose Livestock Barns
  • Message #7129  Watering Systems for Livestock
  • Beef Housing and Equipment Handbook, Bulletin #1001, Midwest Program Service, University of Maine Cooperative Extension: Data on cow-dogie, cattle handling, and cattle feeding facilities; feed storage, processing and treatment; water and waterers; manure direction; farmstead planning, building structure, materials, ventilation and insulation; fences; gates and utilities. 133 pages with index, 1986. $15
  • Dr. Temple Grandin'due south website, Livestock Behavior, Blueprint of Facilities, and Humane Slaughter

Subcontract Taxes and Recordkeeping

  • Maine Sales Tax Forms, Maine Revenue Services site with tax-exempt applications, affidavits and refund forms for agriculture producers
  • Current Country Apply Programs, Maine Farmland Revenue enhancement Constabulary Information, Marketing Information

Marketing

  • Bulletin #1048 Selling Beef in Maine
  • Message #1072 Agreement Beefiness Yields
  • Bulletin #1071 What to Wait When Buying a Freezer Beef – for customers
  • Bulletin #1121 Butchering Beef: The Comprehensive Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering – Storey Publishing $24.95
  • Beefiness Marketing Alternatives, ATTRA, National Sustainable Agronomics Information Service
  • Resources Guide to Straight Marketing Livestock and Poultry, Small Farms Program, Cornell Academy — a 155-page guide bachelor for gratis online or $3 for CD or $8 for difficult copy.
  • Agronomics Marketing Resource Center, Directly Marketing Beef Profile, includes a link to the Farm to Fork: A Direct-to-the-Consumer Marketing Handbook
  • USDA Grass Fed Beef Certification
  • How to Direct Market Your Beef, Sustainable Agronomics Inquiry and Education (SARE)
  • Maine Beef Producers Feeder Calf Sales page: Includes preconditioning protocol.
  • Beef and Pork Whole Brute Buying Guide, Iowa Country University Extension. A consumer-oriented guide explains ownership pork and beefiness as whole animals (or portions thereof). Includes marketing terms and information on storage and handling, meat inspection and meat weight, and common retail pork and beef cuts.

USDA Marketing News and Standards

  • Livestock Grades and Standards, USDA standards for grades of feeder and slaughter cattle
  • Market News, Livestock Cattle Reports, USDA Agronomics Marketing Service. Includes slaughter cattle and feeder and replacement cattle sale prices reported.

Beefiness Quality Assurance

  • Beefiness Quality Assurance, Beef Quality Assurance is a national programme that provides guidelines for beefiness cattle production. The program raises consumer confidence through offering proper management techniques and a delivery to quality inside every segment of the beefiness manufacture. In that location are links to video preparation on BQA at this site.
  • Pennsylvania Beef Quality Assurance

Maine Beef Related Organizations

  • Maine Beefiness Industry Council, Maine Beef Checkoff. They have a number of direct sales brochures that you can use to help brainwash your customers on caring for and using their beef purchases.
  • Maine Beefiness Producers Association
  • Maine Grass Farmers Network

Extension Beef Contact Person: Filly.Knight@maine.edu, 207.581.2953 or in Maine one.800.287.0274