Fertility Exams
Make your bulls put dollars in your pocket: His problems with breeding can cost you thousands
Profits in Culling
Culling a herd is a common, practical and cost-effective procedure for any livestock operation. Producers are always searching for practices that can increase profitability for their farms, and culling is one such practice. Culling in its most simple form is removing those animals from the herd that are inferior, leaving only the superior animals to reproduce and strengthen the operation.
Cow Lease Agreements
Finding value in leasing cattle – and what your costs will truly be
Safety-Alternative Sources of Power
Carbon Monoxide detectors good idea in the home, the shop - 212 Missouri deaths from CO poisoning in 5 years
Fertility Exams
Make your bulls put dollars in your pocket: His problems with breeding can cost you thousands
Fertility Exams
Make your bulls put dollars in your pocket: His problems with breeding can cost you thousands
Marketing a Breeding Program
Deciding to become a purebred producer can be an intensive and costly venture. It involves finding quality seedstock, developing a productive herd and of course, marketing cattle to their full potential. To be successful, producers should take advantage of the resources available through national and state breed associations.
Fat in the Right Places
When the meat grader stamps a side of beef with a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) quality grade, he is estimating its palatability. That stamp of approval on a Choice or Prime carcass predicts quality so that consumers have the confidence to pay more. Producers who sell in a value-based system also earn more. But how do the graders decide which stamp to use? What separates a Choice carcass from a Select?
Being Aware of What Goes In
In the cattle business there are big rewards for finding a niche that develops into a national interest. Rodney Lowrance of Pleasant Hope, Mo. is taking his investment in Gelbvieh cattle and possibly venturing into one of these niches; grass-fed meat production.
Record Keeping at the Farm
The first and most important step in taking control of your farm operation’s financial well-being is to keep good and accurate farm records.
