Date: Mar 19 2012
Breeding & EPDs & Sire SelectionMyth: You can achieve profitable, high-quality cattle by selecting for marbling alone.
Fact: You need to keep pressure on marbling, while focusing on all economically important traits.
Date: Mar 14 2012
Breeding & News Release & Sire SelectionPreventing a “draft bust” in quarterback selection is the first step to build a winning team, says Pfizer Animal Health veterinarian Jason Osterstock. But the genetic epidemiologist isn’t talking about football or the gridiron; he’s analyzing sire selections for beef cattle herds.
Date: Jan 27 2012
Blog & Breeding & EPDsI especially like looking through the bulls in their pens prior to the sale, after studying their genetics in the sale catalog.
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.
Date: Apr 19 2011
Blog & EPDsIt’s not a place to pick up a bargain, as discerning ranchers have come to know that good bulls are brought to the test from across the country, and they will pay a good price to own them.
Date: Mar 18 2011
Blog & EPDsSoundness and temperament are fundamentals in their book. Duane and Donna Jenkins have been in the Angus business since 1948, making it into a family operation.
Date: Mar 13 2011
Blog & Breeding & Breeding Technologies & EPDsTo ensure accuracy, keep only from the best combination of weaning, carcass and breed-back in cow families, you will see those cow families eroded as ‘did not settle to AI’ or failed to rebreed in the less predictable F1s.
Date: Feb 23 2011
Blog & BreedingThis organization and its sale is one of those opportunities for smaller Angus seedstock producers, some of whom don’t have enough bulls to sell in a stand-alone sale.
Date: Oct 19 2009
Cattle Feeding & EPDs & Grid Marketing & News Release & Post WeaningWhen you get a bonus on grid cattle, sometimes it’s easier to count your blessings than to ask why. But Tom Brink, senior vice president for Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, says taking a look at discounts and premiums can help you get more of the latter.
Date: Aug 22 2007
Breeding & EPDs & Maternal Function & News Release & ResearchCattlemen can match both marbling and do-ability to a particular management system. However, trying to make progress with both traits may yield slower results than choosing one over the other.
