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Ultrasound Training Opportunities Announced
Preventing dystocia
When the telephone rings at 2 a.m. in the springtime, I'm pretty sure the caller will be a beef client with a first-calf heifer needing calving assistance....
Ultrasound Tech Training & Certification Offered
Improved Igenity tests
Merial introduces a comprehensive DNA testing profile to incorporate its Igenity DNA tests under one profile. Igenity MultiMARK includes the TenderGENE,...
All The Sex You Want
Choosing your calves' sex may soon be as easy as picking a colored straw of semen. Want a heifer, select a pink straw; a bull, take a blue. A new technology...
Herefords Introduce Non-Certificate AI Bull Program
Gelbvieh releases tenderness data
The American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) has released to its members the results of DNA marker testing on its top 25 most-used sires. The testing program...
Growing program, breed and gender influence ultrasound-based prediction accuracy for carcass traits.
The use of ultrasound can predict adjusted fat thickness (FAT) and marbling (MAR) with reasonable accuracy in tropically adapted cattle, Texas researchers...
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...
