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Measuring Doability
Most of the efficiency work underway today is focused on growing cattle. While cow feed costs are of overriding importance in integrated beef-production...
Predicting "Doability" In Cattle
There's something almost mystical about "doability" in cattle. We all think we know what it is when we see it -- steers that keep gaining during a Panhandle snowstorm, cows that...
Predicting Doability
There's something almost mystical about in cattle. We all think we know what it is when we see it steers that keep gaining during a Panhandle snowstorm...
Running The Genetic Reverse
As demand goes, so goes opportunity in the beef business, says Ben Brophy, director of genomics commercialization for Cargill. Our focus is on tools to...
Mating with a Guarantee
At some point there won't be any reason to buy or mate cattle without knowing the DNA in an animal, and the interaction between that DNA and the specific...
Mixed Bag On DNA-Testing
The sale barn in Creston, IA, drew a few more spectators than usual in late November for Nichols Farms 10th annual genetic source-verified feeder-calf sale. The first of two sales consisted of ...
Bull cost per hundredweight
When it comes to buying bulls, the difference in price between what you need and what you think you can afford may be less than it first appears...
2007 Gelbvieh Sire Summary Available
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...
