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Well Planned Cattle Shipping Day Eliminates Stress

By | Cattle

By Clifford Mitchell From Cattle Today Shipping day is an important event for most operations. Variable factors can play a role for the amount of stress placed on each operation during this time. Moving cattle around, planning trucks and determining value all lead to things that can weigh heavily on…

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Beef Cow Body Condition Score App

By | Cattle

There’s now a free App for your smartphone from Crystalyx that helps track cow body conditions. From their website: “Last winter we put our toe in the water and developed an App that can be used to monitor Body Condition Scores within your beef cow herd. We have had less…

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Martin Black Cow Working Clinic

By | Cattle, Cowboys, Horses

I attended a Martin Black cow working clinic this past weekend at Trinity Ranch by my home. Wonderful clinic and I was really impressed at how Martin helped us all. There were 18 of us and we divided into three groups. Each group spent two hours on horsemanship and cattle…

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Market Optimistic About Beef Prices

By | Cattle

From CattleFax Year-to-date beef demand is up 5% compared to 2011. The retail price of beef has averaged $0.27/lb., six percent higher than a year ago, while peer capita net beef supplies are larger than a year ago. Looking ahead what is the outlook for fourth quarter beef demand? Per…

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