Date: Mar 30 2020
Breeding & Consumer Connection & News Release & SustainabilitySuperior products require superior attention to detail. Robbi Pritchard shares ways cattlemen can continue to fine-tune their cowherd to meet these demands.
Date: Mar 09 2020
Breeding & Breeding Technologies & News Release & Premium Potential & Retained OwnershipLack of facilities, labor, confidence and convenience—these are reasons that less than 10% of all beef cattle producers use artificial insemination. This article covers a presentation by John Hall, Idaho Extension beef cattle specialist, who weighs the challenges with the advantages.
Date: Jan 20 2020
Black Ink & Breeding & Breeding Technologies & Sire Selection & StockmanshipThe technology of today is rapidly advancing while also imagining what the future consumer wants. When you select for breed genetics, you’re imagining what the future of beef could look like.
Date: Dec 18 2019
CAB Insider & EPDs & Premium Potential & Research & Sire SelectionMore research shows marbling is not correlated to other traits, supporting its possible to have maternal function and carcass quality in one animal. Late December is showing more typical Choice grading trends.
Date: Dec 16 2019
EPDs & Maternal Function & News Release & Premium Potential & ResearchMaternal function vs. marbling. Is it an either/or? This report by Steve Suther discusses an Iowa State University research paper, and quotes long-time ISU animal scientist Dan Loy.
Date: Sep 23 2019
Breeding & Cattle Feeding & EPDs & News Release & Research & StockmanshipIs docility economically important? We’d say so. Cattle graded Choice or higher was 63.5% for calm temperaments, compared to 55.5% for their excitable pen mates. The calm advantage was $56 per head.
Date: Aug 23 2019
Blog & EPDs & Retained OwnershipAlexis “Lexi” Koelling has been pulling a heifer around since she was three. Now 15, she’s no stranger to the winner’s circle, but you wouldn’t know by talking to her. You’d have to prod her a bit to find out she won Grand Champion in both the carcass steer and bred-and-owned carcass steer at the National Junior Angus Show this summer. It’s her 5th year in that competition, her second bred-and-owned.
Date: Jul 24 2019
Blog & Breeding & EPDs & Sire Selection & Targeting the Brand“I wish I could just move west and buy a ranch.” It’s something I’ve heard my dad mutter for years. He’s been around agriculture all his life, stacking hay as a teen and raising Hereford steers for the freezer as an adult. But Maryland is not big country. These days, he’s living vicariously through his three daughters’ 4-H projects and FFA events (and my internship here at CAB of course).
Date: Jul 15 2019
EPDs & News Release & Research & Sire SelectionResearch by UGA animal scientist shows efficiency and marbling traits are not correlated. This is good news for cattlemen.
Date: Jul 10 2019
Black Ink & Breeding & Consumer Connection & Sire Selection & Sustainability & Targeting the BrandI’ve always been fascinated with history. From the Founding Fathers in grade school to the battles of World War II, the stories of those who came before us and the great feats they accomplished continue to intrigue me. There’s a lot of history out on the range, too, as I’ve learned from ranchers whose operations have stood the test of time.
