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Multi-Breed Genetic Evaluation
Imagine being able to directly compare the genetic merit of seedstock, no matter what breed or breed combination. It would be the pinnacle of genetic-evaluation...
DNA testing in range settings
DNA paternity identification (ID) and progeny testing may be profitable for open-range beef cattle operations with bull-culling rates of 20% or greater,...
Reaction To Cloned Animal Announcement
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said, "Milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring will enter the food supply. They can do so immediately. The products will not be labeled as such and American consumers will have no way to avoid consuming them." ...
Clones Are Halfway To Approval -- Consumers Are Next
The biggest news of the week was the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement that clones from cattle, swine and goats are safe for human consumption. ...
FDA Says Cloned Animals Are Safe; EU Moves Closer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally ...
What is an ethanol cowherd?
Why would success strategies in a business predicated upon cheap feed and cheap energy work when the opposite is true? That's a query John Lawrence, livestock...
Heterosis boosts bottom line
Crossbreeding has the potential to significantly boost return in a vertically coordinated marketing system, California State University-Chico researchers...
Redefining Carcass EPDs
Back in the day, when the cash market dominated the packer-feeder buying relationship, a packer buyer never perched a boot on a feedbunk, cast a critical...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
