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I hope that I am wrong; but I don't believe that in a typical commercial setting you can consistently get pens where 50% of the steers grade prime unless you have toadie little 2/3 frame scores......or you are feeding concentrated ration from birth (and even then I have doubts). Your normal 5 -...

Dried out oak or sweet gum leaves or the free napkin that comes with the morning sausage egg and cheese biscuit work JUST as well. J.T. is right about the O2. Had not thought about that. Electricity??? indoor plumbing??? 99.99% of all the generations that went before us NEVER saw either...

Good job Mike, I tried to post that thing several times but couldn't find it on the net and am too lazy to type it out by hand from my Angus Bulletin hard copy. When Angus FINALLY posted the October Angus Bulletin online they left THAT article out for some reason.

three meal a day and a place to stay.....everything and everybody else is just gravy.

Horns are usually a good give away that one is not all Angus. A real long head with a roman nose, pronounced eye sockets outside the skull, prominent hooks and pins, no muscle in the lower hindquarters..............(uh) wait I better not go there. IF it is BLACK just assume she is Angus

You need to drive further. Visit the Bryants in Tennessee. Nobody has more experience with the breed. They either have cattle they can sell you or they know who does. http://www.silverbulletcattle.com/wst_page2.html

We owned several cross cows, even a few registered. Used in a cross breeding program they work well. I thought the purebred cows were too hard to breed back in our conditions (fescue, sericea, and hot). We never really had any problem at the stockyard; but we marketed (usually) at 8,9...

I did not explain myself well there. IF you have a purebred herd of cows, it would make more sense to me to either breed them straight to produce straightbred females and bulls or breed them to a pure sire of another breed too produce F1 females. If you have a Hereford cow herd for example...

Very true about the uniformity, but the big benefit of crossbreeding IS the additional fertility and longevity of the crossbred female. Using straightbred females loses that advantage and the crossbred sire loses the uniformity of a purebred calf crop.

Better at WHAT??? CHARs (and most breeds) will outgain them in the feedlot. Angus will out marble and out quality grade them. Angus (and most breeds) will bring more per pound at the same weight than Longhorns at the stockyard. Brahmans probably have more heat resistance and heterosis in a...

The last time we fiddled with the grades was a debacle. I honestly wish USgov had NO ROLE whatsoever in grading beef; but in this nanny state expecting our govt overlords to not interfere in the economy is pollyanna-ish. Beef is down from it's historic highs of two years ago; but historically...

Why confuse the public and rock the boat when beef prices are up and all is more or less well with the world???

I am of the view that IMF and REA are probably the two biggest needs in cattle across the board, certainly the British breeds need to be looking at increasing muscle and indirectly improving Yield grade as a result. At this point, breed average growth numbers are more than sufficient...

IF the sires are AI sires used over dozens or hundreds of herds, who cares which one ratios the best in that one isolated purebreeder's herd??? Pick the AI sire from the EPDs and pick the son you want from the bunch based on the actual performance, the phenotype you want, and from eyeballing...

I think you expect too much from the data. IF I go to some show oriented breeder's place that creep feeds the whole calf crop and supplements every cow and heifer 8 lbs of mixed ration daily while they are standing in knee high irrigated improved pasture and buy the highest ratioing 2 year old...

I think that EVENTUALLY we will have to go to stockering calves to 800-900 lbs and then sending them to the feedlot. It just does not pay to send 400-500 lb calves to the feedlot and put 900-1000 lbs on them with $4.25/bu corn. I may be bad wrong; but as the economic noose around the neck of...

I don't know if this is true or not; but my Grandfather said the justification was that the "High Yeller" Herefords supposedly milked better. As for the excessive white, I think some people just like them that way. Really colorful Longhorns often bring more money than less well marked...

Good looking, functional beef cow no matter WHAT breed she is from.

There is NOTHING intentionally misleading about the study. Since the vast majority of the nation's cow herd is now black (many of them 7/8s Angus or more) the question most commerical breeds have is should they crossbreed and bring in a second breed OR should they straightbreed Angus, as some...

Some will argue with me; but that is pretty much true for all beef cattle breeds.