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.
November 3, 2014
You can breed however you’d like. To be truly successful, breed for fertility, and breed for your farm. Morgan delves deeper into how.
October 20, 2014
Confused about the difference? Here’s what separates the two “relatives.”
October 13, 2014
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
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
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 […]