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The amount of N in tables produced by various legumes is assuming a complete life cycle of well inoculated seeds. Anything less or the drought issue will definitely lessen that amount of N.

Written by someone wanting you to buy a lot of minerals. Bad advice strictly based on cow health and need. Any brand that has that statement would be a brand to avoid in my opinion.

Don't forget the yeast based selenium, tastes like anise, molasses, grain products...

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The Red Chain tag has iron at a high level. That makes the minerals look rich and red but iron is an antagonist to other minerals. We try to avoid it. your situation might be different.

Well said. Like rafter buyers, cattle advisors on the internet can "save" me money while I'll end up losing in reality. All of this local lore from another region of "don't need", "got to have", "my way" or whatever the story line is public stupidity to sell it world wide. There is enough...

And a component in the minerals can have an umbrella type effect where the same named component from various sources can legally be the same name but are drastically different in quality, refinement, availability to the livestock... That has been part of the gripe about components coming from...

Shadows and broken rays of light is what you need to control in working pens and chutes.

another one Seems that yearling or younger scoring is involved. Tells me nothing of a mature bull or a cow with a calf.

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Somebody can correct me but the DOC is measured from the speed that an animal leaves the chute, I think. That means very little to the pasture actions, meanness, mothering, flight zone... I just culled a nice bull calf from a AI sire that was supposed to overcome the DOC of the paternal...

"Id rather be getting smaller mammas than bigger ones so I look to be at the bottom of the % with YH." I don't think this is necessary. You can find some that stop growing (height) sooner with good YH but not an extreme MH or MW.

Problem heifers generally come from cows that should have been culled. There are various ways to market cattle. I have chosen to sell any dink and the dam at weaning or when the marketability of those animals are best for me. I retain most of the heifer crop. They get run on pasture, exposed to...

Great post. Tie this into Simme's comments and you have "the answer".

You had better not use a big headed one for sure.

The system is broken if you have to use a bull with lesser faults.

I've seen that in sale groups, too.

The old saying "weight pays" has another side of "weight costs". Be it growth potential, extra milk, more forage, extra feed, better feed... I have been told that there are farm staff at SAV that keep growing calves moving back toward feeders. I don't know and I really don't care because I don't...

Neither of them matter to me in the real world and with real dollars.

Just to give you some conversation: FS is not always the same throughout the life of an animal. Extra supplementation early on can increase or maximize the frame of the calves. If you wean and put them on lower quality diets, the yearling FS can drop a digit or more. When they mature at...