It’s all good
Date: Feb 22 2017
Blog & Breeding Technologies & Gestational Nutrition & Sire SelectionWith heifers due on pasture leases the first of May, we couldn’t wait too long for synchronized artificial insemination (AI) early that month.
Category: Breeding Technologies
Winning in extra innings
Date: Feb 07 2017
Blog & Breeding TechnologiesWow, this guy is so lucky, I thought when Steve and I visited with Braden Schaal of Schaal Cattle Company last spring.
Bending Curves, Breaking Stereotypes
Date: Nov 18 2016
Angus Convention & Breeding & Breeding Technologies & Heifer Development & News Release & Research & Sire SelectionAngus cattle need to do more than ever before. Carcass quality, functional females, feedlot performance—they all matter. That theme was evident at the Innovation Workshops during the National Angus Convention, Nov. 4 to 7, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Breed all the cows at one time
Date: Aug 31 2016
Breeding & Breeding Technologies & EPDs & News ReleaseIf your opinion of artificial insemination (AI) for the beef cattle herd is “been there, done that,” you may want to give it another look. New protocols and synchronization methods have eased the pressure. “There’s no question that fixed-time AI has gotten easier,” says Cliff Lamb, University of Florida animal scientist. That’s important for those who tried other AI programs in the past but did not find success, and also noteworthy for those who have never tried AI.
A DVR for the beef business
Date: May 12 2016
Blog & Breeding & Breeding Technologies & EPDsImagine if we could have that same kind of efficiency in the cattle business — especially as it relates to genetics — cutting the time it takes us to see end results by half?
Reproduction matters, Part II
Date: Oct 24 2014
Breeding & Breeding Technologies & News Release & ResearchToday, I’ll continue with helpful advice from day 2 of the Applied Reproductive Strategies in Beef Cattle (ARSBC) Symposium.
Planning, reality and planning
Date: Dec 13 2013
Blog & Breeding & Breeding TechnologiesA few generations of artificial insemination (AI) and breeding up to greater accuracy in calving ease let us hit the target most of the time.
Heritage helps to shape innovation
Date: Apr 11 2013
Big Thinkers & Blog & Breeding Technologies & StockmanshipThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but the same can’t be said when utilizing innovative technologies at Bridges Angus Farm.
DNA: an arriving tool for beef cattle
Date: May 02 2012
Breeding & Breeding Technologies & News Release & ResearchRight now, it’s hard to imagine how future tools will change the beef cowherd. Today, heifer development costs are high and getting higher as ranch profit goals demand efficiency while consumers want quality. DNA technology is one of the emerging solutions for beef production, in line with the role it has played in agronomy.
AI? Check. Preg? Check.
Date: Oct 27 2011
Blog & Breeding TechnologiesTo most commercial producers, it’s not worth the time and labor, but I see the benefits of using a sequence of single, high-accuracy sires to build up herd genetics, aiming for more and more predictability.