Keep cows in moderate body condition score (BCS) after calving to decrease interval to first estrus, Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station researchers...More
Open the catalog from your favorite genetics supplier and what do you see? Outside of the pretty pictures, you see numbers. Lots and lots of numbers....More
With the summer heat blazing down on cattle ranchers across the country, the discovery of a new way to improve heat tolerance in cattle is certainly good news....More
The American Angus Association’s (AAA) fall 2008 national cattle evaluation results are now available at www.angus.org. The semiannual analysis contains information submitted by nearly 9,800 Angus breeders...More
The table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate across-breed expected progeny differences (AB-EPDs) for 16 breeds was presented at the Beef Improvement...More
The Beef Improvement Federation’s (BIF) Commission on DNA Markers has established a blog to gather input on DNA technology and beef cattle improvement...More
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 a strong link between a cow's body condition and her reproductive performance....More
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...More
DNA paternity identification (ID) and progeny testing may be profitable for open-range beef cattle operations with bull-culling rates of 20% or greater,...More
The beef cattle industry has been using Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) as a selection tool in improving calf productivity for nearly two decades....More
Imagine being able to directly compare the genetic merit of seedstock, no matter what breed or breed combination. It would be the pinnacle of genetic-evaluation...More
Each day he goes to work, beef geneticist John Pollak crosses his fingers. Why? The Cornell University professor and head of the National Beef Cattle...More
When it comes to genomics and genetic evaluation, the sum is more powerful than the parts, at least for now, apparently. It's called whole-gnome selection...More
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said, "Milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring will enter the food supply. They can do so immediately. The products will not be labeled as such and American consumers will have no way to avoid consuming them."...More
The biggest news of the week was the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement that clones from cattle, swine and goats are safe for human consumption....More
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally...More
Why would success strategies in a business predicated upon cheap feed and cheap energy work when the opposite is true? That's a query John Lawrence, livestock...More
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....More
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...More
Back in the day, when the cash market dominated the packer-feeder buying relationship, a packer buyer never perched a boot on a feedbunk, cast a critical...More
Crossbreeding has the potential to significantly boost return in a vertically coordinated marketing system, California State University-Chico researchers...More