Date: Sep 25 2019
Big Thinkers & Cattle Feeding & Post WeaningNorm and Sharon Timmerman encouraged their children to follow their own passions. After college, Jason started with Timmerman Feeding, while CPA Kristin ran her own accounting firm and Ryan pursued a degree in business management.
Date: Sep 25 2019
Cattle Feeding & News Release & Post Weaning & Research & Stockmanship & SustainabilityHis push to get better and desire to win are as much a part of how he was raised—and people who mentored him along the way—as they are a personal philosophy. Probably why he earned the CAB 2019 Progressive Partner Award.
Date: Sep 25 2019
Cattle Feeding & Grid Marketing & News Release & Post Weaning & Premium PotentialTheir camaraderie and shared trust to the work they do for their feeding company doesn’t go unnoticed. The Timmerman family earned the CAB 2019 Feedlot Commitment to Excellence Award for their dedication to feeding quality cattle and getting results.
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: Sep 05 2019
Cattle Feeding & Cattle Markets & Feeding Quality Forum & Implant & News Release & Retained OwnershipThe cattle industry needs to make some bold, creative changes to ensure its viability. That was the wakeup call from speakers at the Feeding Quality Forum, Aug. 27 to 28 in Amarillo, Texas. Persistent problems may require new approaches.
Date: Sep 04 2019
Big Thinkers & Cattle Feeding & Post WeaningFor Jerry Bohn, longtime manager at Pratt Feeders, earned the 2019 FQF Industry Achievement Award for his leadership and dedication to the industry.
Date: Aug 22 2019
Cattle Feeding & News Release & StockmanshipThe future of food is in our hands, but do we have enough hands to help feed the world? Courtney Daigle, assistant professor of animal welfare at Texas A&M University, shares ideas on the narrowing supply of quality stockmen and how cattlemen might find more top hands.
Date: Aug 12 2019
Cattle Feeding & Health & News Release & Post Weaning & Research & StockmanshipThis isn’t a research topic you’d find at the middle-school science fair. It’s so new, research is just beginning to explore this 16-letter term for immune cells sharing nutrients with major organs: immunometabolism. So far, there are still more questions than answers.
Date: Jul 31 2019
Cattle Feeding & News Release & Post Weaning & Premium Potential & Research & StockmanshipIt’s a hot topic every summer.
“Heat stress is the largest impediment to efficient animal agriculture,” said Rob Rhoads, Virginia Tech. He presented with University of California-Davis colleague Frank Mitloehner for a symposium on the topic at the American Society of Animal Scientists annual meeting in July.
Date: Jul 12 2019
Blog & Cattle Feeding & Consumer Connection & Post WeaningUncomfortable silence.
If you don’t like it, you know the kind. Perhaps you’re just getting to know somebody, and you reach a point in the conversation where that silence hangs heavy and it makes you uneasy.
