November 3, 2014
Breeding Matters Part IV: Culling for Fertility
You can breed however you’d like. To be truly successful, breed for fertility, and breed for your farm. Morgan delves deeper into how.
Author: Morgan Hartman
Morgan Hartman is a grazier and Founder/Managing Partner of Black Queen Angus Farm in Berlin, NY. He regularly can be found near a smoky fire with greasy fingers and a well-fed expression on his face. Less frequently he can be found actually working.
October 20, 2014
Breeding Matters III – Inbreeding vs. Line Breeding
Confused about the difference? Here’s what separates the two “relatives.”
October 13, 2014
Line Breeding is Good For Profit
A couple months ago I wrote an article for On Pasture called Breeding Matters. I briefly alluded to Line Breeding as a method of getting greater consistency and uniformity of type in one’s herd or flock. Many graziers I talk to essentially say, “So why should I care how my cattle are bred, or my […]
September 1, 2014
All Forage Bull Test Gearing Up For Year 3
I’m sending out this forward to let you all know in black and white about the Cornell All Forage Bull Test. This year there was a lot of producer input in the design of the test and a lot of feedback from previous consignors as to what data is economically important. Of course, many of […]
July 7, 2014
Breeding Matters
Like many of us in the business of grass-farming for livestock production, I have been preoccupied by a persistent question; Nature vs. Nurture, Breeding vs. Management, Genetics vs. Environment, all takes on the same dichotomy. Of course the answer is unequivocally, “YES.” The functionality of an animal for our particular purposes is absolutely the sum […]