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Breeding Systems
Body condition scoring
The practice of assigning a body condition score (BCS) to a cow is a great management tool for identifying nutritional needs in a beef cowherd. There's...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail ...
Market First
Our Dad and Grandpa always bought cattle cheap, and then upgraded them. This industry has always been about one segment trying to beat up on another one....
Gather around the campfire
This month, BEEF ventures into a new venue by partnering with the North American Limousin Foundation (NALF) on a series of Internet programs aimed at...
Continuing Commitment
The challenge to BIF is to remain dynamic and move into the 21st century with a program attuned to the technology of that era. Embryo transfer, cloning...
Forty Years of Foresight
January 1967 marked an important beginning for the beef industry. Cattle producers and researchers gathered in Denver for a meeting during the National...
Heifer economics: part 1
Fall calf prices peaked in 2005, and the current beef-price cycle is expected to trend lower as the cycle plays out. Thus, measuring and controlling heifer-replacement...
The Sex Ratio Riddle
Predetermining the sex of calves has been one of the most intriguing and sought-after technologies in the cattle industry for decades. Most of the attention...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...


















