08/01/06 The "Beef Book"

Idaho cattle producers who are weighing different approaches to managing and marketing their animals this fall might want to get their hands on the "Cow-Calf Management Guide and Cattle Producer`s Library." University of Idaho's Jason Ahola says there are major topics like reproduction, nutrition, management, genetics, drought, finance, quality assurance, health and pasture. AHOLA "The unique thing about this book is that it's updated every year and you actually can get and we'll send you updated versions of the fact sheets and it's also peer reviewed. So that anybody that puts an article in there it's been read by several other researchers so you're pretty well guaranteed that is." This guide has plenty of information that Idaho and western producers will find useful. AHOLA "Over 230 fact sheets right now and it comes in a big four inch binder and you can open it up and pull out specific ones or just kind of look by sections. It really is a great resource and it's very affordable." The manual is available for $95 as a printed binder that includes a CD-ROM. You can get the manual via the University of Idaho website, http://www.avs.uidaho.edu/wbrc. Today's Idaho Ag News Bill Scott