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What is the current market price of cattle?  The cash price Where is the rib eye measured at? What is the single most factor that has influenced the beef industry this past year? What does KPH stand for? Name the top 3 quality grades on a carcass? Who grades the carcasses in the US? What does...

Use a feed that has an ionophore in it. 

Is it possible for a judge pick an animal using industry specs?  An animal that is high yielding, grades (depends on what the choice/select spread is for that week), hits industry target wieghts (1280-1360), yield grade 1-2......(all industry standards)....while being long, deep bodied, squared...

I believe many beef judges are out of touch with the beef industry.  They do not represent it anymore.  If I was incharge of selecting a judge for a show, I would start by asking when is the last time the visited a packing house.  When was the last time you seen cattle on the rail?  Have you...

Wow!!  Congrats!!  (clapping)

Just like facebook.  You get an email when you comment on a topic.  I like that.  Will make response to threads much quicker than waiting till the morning to get a response. (clapping)

I squeeze one fairly large one on two average size ones with a regualar set of pliers.  Will take care of it in a week.

Squeeze a wart to a pulp with a pair of pliers.  Do not pull off.  You will introduce the wart virus into the animals blood system.  The animals body will produce it own serum to fight the warts.  In less than a week, all the warts will fall off.  I have done it on steers, heifers, and a horse...

Remember this word.  "Passion".  Its not about what we like to do, its what you have a Passion for.  You are going to make a career of this so you better have a Passion for it.  When you have a Passion for something, you cant wait to wake up in the morniing to meet and greet.  I love my job.  I...

I manage a 40,000 head feedyard and love every minute of it.  I call it the Five Star Hilton for cattle.  <beer>

RIP Heatwave.  Bet his semen just increased in price.

Foot rot reacts easily to any antibiotic.  A cheap terramycin will work.  A stronger more expensive antibiotic  will also work but a little faster.  On high risk for hoof rot season, Zinpro feed additive works pretty good.

No, the beef industry is not driven by the dairy industry. Dairys do not own feedyards that I know of.  They are not members of NCBA.  Holstein bull calves are a by product of the dairy industry.  When day olds go lower than $20, they simply put them down.  Not worth it to them.  They could care...

This kind of reminds me of a team roper a friend told me about.  He went out and spent $20,000 on a hell of a horse.  Then he goes and buys the cheapest lowest quality hay to feed it.  Why would one go out and invest time, money, and pride and not be show presentable.  I like kids that look as...

Our prayers go out to the family.  Big fan of his.  I just loved his positiveness of all his post.  God is in the hereford business now. 

Lets all help spread the word.  Email this link to all your contacts.  Repost it on your Facebook, Twitter page.  The most people the read this, the more we help ourselves out.  We need to educate the public on what really happens.  If we don't use this to spread the message, the public will...

I agree Black Cow.  Ionophores, MGA, Tylan, Zinpro, lactobacillus acidophilus products, etc.  They all are legal but used for different objectives.  On bag feed, they are usually referring to Ionophores though. 

There is a Ivy League heifer for sale with 2 pics included in the classifieds.

Start him on optaflexx asap.  I have fed 60 days and seen bigger difference in gain.  Watch its cover though.  Might supplement added energy to compensate.  All other ideas are great also. 

Lets not forget the very next year another family got caught bringing in calf that DNA proved was shown at a terminal show to Arizona Nationals.