Date: Jul 06 2021
Big Thinkers & Feeder Calf Marketing & Post Weaning & Pre-conditioning & WeaningFor the 70% or more of beef calves born last spring, more than the usual share veered from traditional roads to the feedyard come fall. Backgrounding those calves opened gates to several new revenue paths, though not without risk.
Date: Nov 14 2019
Cattle Feeding & Feeding Quality Forum & Implant & News Release & Research & WeaningWhen it comes to growth implants in cattle, animal scientist Robbi Pritchard only worries about three things: getting enough premium if you’re not use them, using them wrong and using them with too little insight.
Date: Jan 01 2018
Lactation & On Target & WeaningIt looks like weaning weights have gone pretty much nowhere for 15 years. That’s according to a summary of North Dakota State University’s Cow Herd Appraisal of Performance Software (CHAPS) that presents genetic progress as functionally static since 2003. I couldn’t miss that summary, well-publicized and pointed out by just about every contact and source I know.
Date: Oct 17 2017
Blog & Feeding Quality Forum & WeaningWeaning and “preg checking” tell us how successful our last two breeding seasons were. While many cow herd operators enjoy calving as a time to see the fruits of their labor, I prefer weaning, when management and genetic selection come together in one package. If you fell short in meeting any challenge like keeping pastures vegetative or replacement heifers without records, those effects are in full view when calves cross the scale at weaning.
Date: Oct 17 2017
On Target & WeaningWeaning and “preg checking” tell us how successful our last two breeding seasons were. While many cow herd operators enjoy calving as a time to see the fruits of their labor, I prefer weaning, when management and genetic selection come together in one package. If you fell short in meeting any challenge like keeping pastures vegetative or replacement heifers without records , those effeccts are in full view when calves cross the scale at weaning.
Date: Jun 21 2017
Blog & Calving & Early Weaning & Lactation & WeaningCalving season, check. Start of AI season, check. Criss-crossing the U.S. talking about commercial DNA, check. Rain…..not so much.
Date: Jun 22 2016
Blog & WeaningWe met Jerry Hasart and I heard how Top End Farms stepped into the unknown several times throughout the years and adapted.
Date: Jan 20 2016
Blog & WeaningOn a 10-degree morning in central Nebraska, Virginia Evert may ask herself why her fitness routine involves bucket feeding heifers rather than working out in a gym.
Date: Jun 05 2015
Blog & WeaningThere’s something about a Ken Griner greeting that makes you feel you’re right where you should be. Friend or stranger, it makes no difference.
Date: Mar 09 2015
Blog & Pre-conditioning & Stockmanship & WeaningAt his Cattlemen’s College session last month, I heard Mark present a pretty convincing case for preconditioning (a 11-year analysis of Indiana producers showed a profit of more than $80 per head, on average for 60+ day programs, for example).
But it wasn’t just about the economics of it all. It was about the principle.
