Jeff Ishee visits with Temple Grandin about her life and research
Jeff Ishee visits with Temple Grandin about her life and research
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DNA Revolution: Ready for today’s cattle industry gene data ?
Codi Vallery-Mills
The Cattle Business Weekly
Agriculture has hit another level of the technology revolution. DNA test research and development is offering cattle producers an opportunity to become the most efficient and profitable agricultural producers the industry has seen.
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Less Stress, Less Hassle
Becky Mills
Josh Gunn has 5,000 reasons to keep cattle as calm as possible in his family’s custom preconditioning and stocker operation. That is the number of freshly weaned calves that come to the Springfield, Tenn., farm already stressed to the max.
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How to Start up a Beef Cow Calf Operation
WikiHow
Generally, most rookie cattlemen should start off as commercial cattlemen to gain the experience of calving cows, weaning calves, marketing calves, selecting cows and bulls and replacement heifers and culling the rest, etc. before they decide to go into the seedstock or purebred business.
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U.S. beef prices advance as global buying increases
Bob Burgdorfer
Reuters
The ongoing rise in beef prices has surprised analysts and economists, who say better-than-expected exports to such places as South Korea and Mexico are driving the increases.
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More documentation means more premiums for cattlemen
Gayle Smith
The Fence Post
“They’re black and they’ve had all their shots” is not enough any more for ranchers marketing their calf crop. According to Dr. Darrell Wilkes, manager of ABS Beef Supply Systems in Parker, Colo., the cattle market is dictating more documentation.
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Just a day in the life of a Mom during calving season
Jan Swan Wood
Tri State Livestock News
The first spring after we moved to this place came on the heels of a hard, cold winter. The cows had spent most of the winter humped up behind the windbreak, eating hay and staying warm. Consequently, the calves were rather on the jumbo order when calving finally came. I pulled every calf born here that spring and I was not set up for it.
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Farmers turn out in droves for cattle auction opening day
Smoky Mountain News
Quintin Ellison
The first cow ushered into the WNC Regional Livestock Center in Canton weighed 850 well-proportioned pounds. Despite being two-months pregnant, she danced lithely about the livestock arena, easily sidestepping the green, long plastic paddle a handler occasionally dabbed in her direction.
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Goggins to Receive Saddle and Sirloin Honor
Angus.org
Lifelong livestock marketer and Angus breeder Patrick K. Goggins has been named recipient of the 2011 Saddle and Sirloin Portrait Award. The award is among the livestock industry’s highest honors, bestowed on an individual person who has had a profound and lasting impact on American agriculture.
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ICA Names Strohbehn To Hall Of Fame
Wallaces Farmer
Longtime ISU Extension beef specialist Daryl Strohbehn was recently inducted into Iowa Cattlemen’s Association Hall of Fame. His accomplishments and contributions to cattle production in Iowa and beyond were noted at the recent ICA convention in Ottumwa.
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