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I tell them exactly what I have told you above - These cattle will make you profitable heifers and the steers will sell well also - even to the feedlot guys. Why??? Because you get more money per pound of calf at lower weight, you can run 10 to 20 percent more cattle of my type on the same...

Feed cost is the largest cost of the cow calf producer. To maximize the profit you need to control cost. Just getting the largest calf to sell is only looking at half of the equation - Gross Sales less Expenses = Profit. The extra growth comes with a price - you must feed or provide the extra...

I know the owners of both of the bulls. These bulls are typical of the breeding they use. Rather high EPD on milk - probably too high to use for any low input program, the ww and yw are also high for the average producer, again the owners are very willing to feed the cattle all they need to...

Good luck guys - better take a Big Check book - I doubt if you will be the sole bidders on those corn fat cattle.

Easy method is to run a fall and a summer herd. Just turn a yearling bull in with the "off" group and he will not only preg check every cow in the field for free, but he will fix the problem if you have an open one. I know many are in areas that think don't work well with fall calving - but...

$EN epd figure gives you an estimate of Savings on maintenance energy requirement - so the larger the number the better you will be on the highest variable on profit in the cattle industry - Feed Cost. If you are breeding for replacement heifers - that figure should be top consideration. Other...

No the "o" or the "+5" means nothing - just a base from years ago. It is just a DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO EPD'S that is all you are talking about. Rmember also that Milk EPD is not pounds of milk - just pounds of growth expected in the animals Daughters! We are talking 2+ years out to see that...

Just think - if you calved in a reasonable time of the year, more in sync with nature, you would not need any of it!

KY has a cost share program for bulls/semen and "heifer acceptable" need a 7 CED or better, whereas a "balanced trait bull" needs only a 1 CED and a "terminal bull" can go as high as a -5 CED These numbers are based on a percentile table ranking. CED involves a lot of things other than...

Gerald Fry has some pretty wild ideas on linear measurements, etc for forage cattle - but his system DOES work on the hair on preg cows. I was a non-believer until I tried it. No - I paid to learn it and am not about to tell you how for free. You can figure it out on you own by the 2 keys I...

Sure "I" can do it - but a NEW cattleman that has to ask the question will have no clue. Have you looked at the hair on the cows top line and on tail yet and made your decisions on bred or not and heifer vs bull??? Try it - you might even suprise yourself!

Wouldn't we all love to "look at them" and tell if bred. Sorry, but it involves a rectal exam or the new blood test that is just out. Sort of like women - never - never - never say anything about pregnancy or how many days until due --- unless you are ABSOLUTELY sure the woman IS preg! Ya...

We typically are on Stockpile Fescue until early to mid Feb - both Summer calving (May June) and Fall calving (Sept Oct) cows. Last several years we have bred fall cows on Stockpile - pulling bulls Feb 1 and have all calved with in 45 of a 60 day breeding period. When we run out of stockpile...

I looked at them back when I was renting several smaller farms, slick looking deals and handy for limited labor. Will not hold up as squeeze chute atached- better have a seperate short alley and chute. Did not buy as I was able to buy a larger farm and stopped the running around on rented farms.

However - when you knock the props out from under cows, like creep feeding, extra grain in winter, etc - you soon find out which cows are making a profit for you and which cows you are working to support. Mother nature sure knows how to cull cows. Cow business is easy when the $ are high for...

You and J have fallen off one too many horses. Your reasoning powers have me lol . You say you are not feeding grain, not giving antibiotics or hormones - but you laugh at it??? That is exactly what we Natural producers have been preaching for years. FYI God created a perfect RUMINANT, many...

Well Larry, here is one nay-sayer telling you I can put grass fed "only" beef in the freezer and corn fed beef in the freezer and you can eat it and never know which is which. As far as I am concerned this "Organic beef" stuff is just a bunch of bunk and a means of sucking more money from folks...

Have been direct selling the Natural Beef market for several years. No antibiotics, no hormones - grass only - no grain. Just 30 days of grain will drop the CLA level, omega 3 level etc by over half. Most farmers have no clue about the health benefits of Grass fed beef, but my RD Daughter and...

Yes - I am telling HIM to check and make sure - I have to take my direct marketed cattle for a 2 hour ride to get to a USDA custom packer. There are NO Large Processors in KY. If you have some in your area -GREAT- you can finish cattle anywhere - but only a dumb ass turkey would finish...