Too much, too early
Date: Oct 27 2018
Implant & On Target & Post Weaning & ResearchCategory: Post Weaning
CAB grids pay $75 million per year
Date: Oct 27 2018
Cattle Markets & Grid Marketing & News Release & Premium Potential & Retained OwnershipCertified Angus Beef ® is the Brand that Pays®. At a rate of $8,500 per hour, 24-7, that was $75 million for 2017, up from the $52 million paid in 2015; the linking year came in at $63 million. That brings the 20-year total for CAB premiums to $688 million, more than half of it paid in the last seven years.
Dreamers and doers
Date: Jul 25 2018
Big Thinkers & Blog & Post Weaning & Retained OwnershipIf you could have one wish, any wish, what would it be? More resources, greater assets, the best genetics or something else?
Smiles, success
Date: Jul 10 2018
Big Thinkers & Blog & Canada & Post Weaning & Retained OwnershipYou could say Cudlobe Angus began on a whim. The journey from three Angus cows purchased at a sale barn to a more than 600 head seedstock operation that hosts two sales a year took decades of learning and investment risk.
Time and data will tell
Date: Apr 27 2018
Big Thinkers & Blog & Post Weaning & Retained Ownership“We want to be able to capture the true value of the genetics we’ve invested in,” Billy says. “And to do that, we need to hang them on the rail and see what they’re worth.”
Ovine to bovine
Date: Feb 05 2018
Big Thinkers & Blog & Retained OwnershipI met Fred Roberts this summer outside a diner in western Wyoming. He ordered his coffee and I asked him questions about Angus cattle. Fred’s a sheep guy, too.
News Release: First class feeder cattle marketing
Date: Nov 21 2017
Cattle Feeding & Feeder Calf Marketing & News ReleaseRiding for the CAB® brand for nearly 16 years, Paul Dykstra has learned a thing or two about “First class feeder cattle marketing.”
Following the calves: The data is in! The data is in!
Date: Sep 01 2017
Blog & Cattle FeedingCattle feeder Mark Sebranek was giving me a wrap-up on the Hadrick calves, the ones we’ve been following since December.
One-man show, part II
Date: Aug 29 2017
Big Thinkers & Blog & Post Weaning & Retained OwnershipJim Moore’s full of these. Life lessons, advice not taken, anecdotes of who said ‘what,’ when and why.
One-man show, part I
Date: Aug 28 2017
Blog & Cattle Feeding“I’m going to be my own person,” Jim Moore said as we bounced around in a beat up pickup, checking cows and talking life.
His answer was in reference to heifer selection, but it fits the cowman’s character.