Tools that work
Date: Jul 27 2017
Blog & Breeding & Breeding Technologies & EPDsEvery single rancher I interview who has made significant, directional progress gives a big portion of that credit to studying the EPDs.
Category: Breeding
Following the calves: The next generation
Date: Jun 19 2017
Blog & Breeding & CalvingThe little apartment Bruce Keaster has tucked inside the calving barn at their ranch south of Belt, Montana, is the perfect classroom.
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.
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.
Science-based ranching in the Superstitions
Date: Sep 26 2016
Breeding & Breeding Health & EPDs & News Release & Sire SelectionPolitics aside, every sense of “progressive” describes Chuck Backus. From his 36 years in education and research to the overlapping 39 years in ranching, this former provost of Arizona State University embodies the aspects of applied innovation, growth by accumulating knowledge, experimenting and expanding boundaries.
Feeding Quality Forum challenges norms
Date: Sep 01 2016
EPDs & Feeding Quality Forum & News ReleaseIf you think you have the cattle feeding business all figured out, you’re probably mistaken. That’s according to speakers at the Feeding Quality Forum in Grand Island, Neb., and Amarillo, Texas, last week. The experts addressed what they “used to know” that’s no longer so.
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?
Getting what you pay for
Date: Apr 01 2016
Breeding & EPDs & News ReleaseImagine buying a bull with a birth weight EPD (expected progeny difference) of 1.0, only to bring him home and find out he was actually a +9.6. What if that mistake was your fault?