Date: Nov 28 2015
Blog & EPDsIn the Angus Main Sire Summary last summer, more than 50 bulls made the top 35th percentile for the combination of Weaning Weight, Scrotal Circumference, CE Maternal, Heifer Pregnancy, $W and Marbling EPD.
Date: Nov 17 2015
Blog & Consumer Connection & EPDsAnd .51 is the average marbling EPD for non-parent bulls this fall, like the ones you’re bidding on and/or buying at private treaty across the country.
Date: Mar 07 2015
Calving & EPDs & News ReleaseSome say that’s the origin of the popular “urban legend” in the Angus breed: high marbling potential is for “terminal” cattle, because they don’t make good mamas.
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.
Date: Oct 23 2014
Breeding & News Release & ResearchA few weeks ago I attended the two-day Applied Reproductive Strategies in Beef Cattle (ARSBC) Symposium, held this year at Oklahoma State University.
Date: Oct 06 2014
Big Thinkers & Blog & Breeding & Sire SelectionTo raise cattle for over 33 years with someone, you’ve got to love what you do and who you do it with.
Date: Aug 15 2014
Big Thinkers & Blog & BreedingWe’ve been told time after time that we can’t have our cake and eat it, too. But it turns out that sometimes we CAN!
Date: Jul 23 2014
Blog & Breeding & Sire SelectionI was beginning to think I’d seen it all, when out of the blue comes a double-sided, full color ad flyer for a ranch “up north” publicizing their upcoming bull sale.
Date: Jun 18 2014
Blog & Breeding & EPDsSteve and I recently had the pleasure of meeting commercial Angus producers Roy and Carol Soukup (she walked in a few minutes later) in Ellsworth, Kan.
Date: Jun 09 2014
Breeding Health & Cattle Markets & News ReleaseWhen corn prices moved up a few years ago, many predicted cattle finishers would reduce days on feed and quality grades would suffer. Neither happened.
