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Sorry for the length, but Summitcrest has had this at the back of their bull catalog for the last couple of years. I have always kind of liked it, and I thought I would put it out there for everyone to comment on. I sure don't mean it to be a sales pitch, but would like to here if there are...

The night before the Summitcrest Angus Bull Sale last week, they brought in a couple of speakers for the supper they have the night before. One of them was Steven Shackelford of the US Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska. They have developed a camera that determines beef...

Wanted some of your opinnions on this topic. Had a heifer last night that looked like she was going to calf at about dark. Didn't have any reason to believe it was going to be a big deal, but wanted to be able to check on her later and get her in if needed. So we brought her up to the calving...

Cow slipped a calf this morning 2/13. No where near due date of 3/25. Calf was much more developed than I would have expected. Proabably weighed around 50-55 pounds. How early can a calf come and live, assuming you find him and give him some colostrum if needed? This calf appeared to have...

Lately, on this board, there have been quite a bit of talk of crunching numbers, what does and doesn't pay. It has all made for very good discussion. I do hate to see it get a little personal at times (people who don't do A are stupid, etc.). But all in all it touches on some of the themes my...

A couple of quick questions for you guys. Wasn't sure were to post this. We use to chop silage for backgrounding our calves. Lately we have to switched to using hay and a Purina feed to put the weight on them and have been using the silage for our cows. The silage is usually put up on the...

Kind of related to Mike's original post about marbling, pre Angus debate. I am hearing more about our breeder and their thoughts on IMF ultrasounding vs marbling epds. Seems that they ultrasounded some of their steers and once killed they found a very poor correlation between their IMF...

Looking for some advice. All of our cows are currently bred natural service. We run a 63 day breeding season for first calf heifers, give second calf heifers 75 days, and give cows 63 days unless we have a bull get hurt or something and if so we might give them another 10 or so, for some...

We have a couple of yearling bulls that got out through a gate left open and got into some corn under a bin unloading auger. It took us awhile to find out about it. I called the vet, it was dark, and he suggested we keep an eye on them and give them banamine in the morning. Corn is coming...

We just got back from a very short two day tour in north central Nebraska. I wanted to visit a couple of people there and we were glad we did. The first stop was the William Zutavern Cattle Co. in Dunning. They have a commercial angus herd, but you wouldn't know it by going to a Summitcrest...

Give me pros and cons of the above programs. We have used both. We used Impact Grower in a dry time, when there wasn't hay to spare. Complete Feed, mix pellets with corn in self feeder. We have also used accuration two of the last 3 years. It is fairly popular in our area. Some guys...

Posted this on health and nutrition, then was afraid I wasn't in the correct spot. What are some of the AI options you guys employ in your herds. What do you like and what didn't you like?

What are some of the AI options you guys use in your herd. Our vet is pushing CIDRs, pros, cons?