Recent content by Joe Hopping

We'll be pregnancy testing them before long. We would have liked to have used more bulls but we wanted to use exceptional bulls and they're hard to find. They were in a grazing cell being moved twice a day so during most of the breeding season they were never in an area over three acres in...

We used two Mashona bulls and a Tuli bull to breed right at 200 Beefmaster females of Casey and Lasater breeding this year. The bulls stayed in excellent condition all through the breeding season despite the heat here this Summer in Northeastern Oklahoma and lots of females to cover. We're...

Yes. We've used "managed grazing" for 25 years with both cattle and hair sheep. At one time our grazing was more of a rotation where the animals were moved every few days to new pasture and now it has evolved to where they are moved daily if not several times a day to fresh pasture as Johann...

If someone has problems with what Johann is advocating it would have to do with their lack of understanding of the way to apply his concepts. The use of Livestock Genetics that are adapted to their environment and a Grazing Program that mimics nature makes sense and will work anywhere that...

Hopping Brothers Livestock will be hosting a 3 Day Adapted Genetics & Grazing Course August 14th - 16th at Coweta, Oklahoma with Johann Zietsman of Zimbabwe and Jim Elizondo of Mexico/Florida as instructors. The course will place a big emphasis on Adapted Livestock Genetics and the Creation of...