Can Selection Indexes Improve Profitability in Beef Cattle
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2014-01-18
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Leachman, Lee
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Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference
The Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference is one of the longest running and most successful conferences of its type in the Midwest. For over forty years, the conference has provided an opportunity for producers, researchers, and over 70 industry representatives to come together to explore current topics and issues. This concentrated one-day conference focuses on management and production practices that contribute to making the cow-calf business profitable and competitive on a long-term basis.
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As a bull producer, I know that my long-term business success depends on the financial success of my customers. As such, we try to select the bulls we produce for the traits that drive profit into our customers’ herds. Our Angus, Red Angus, and Stabilizer herds are selected based on a maternal profit index. Our Charolais are selected on strictly terminal profit index. We produce and market over 1200 bulls per year. These bulls primarily sell to progressive minded ranchers in the high plains