Date: Oct 21 2019
AngusLink & Feeder Calf Marketing & News Release & Post Weaning & Pre-conditioningBuyers know your calves by their history and connect that to your name. Sometimes it’s all they know about you, good or bad. Basic questions about marketing feeder calves answered to help build your reputation.
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 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: 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.
