LONGEVITY OF PRODUCTION
Classic Cotton Levi X Cotton Cow U 1/3 • Typesetter / Pacesetter
Miss Dusty Painted Tiger X Lady Jacqueline
972/7 - Classic Cotton X Miss Dusty
In raising cattle continuously for over 63 years, over the last 42 of which have involved Beefmasters, I’ve seen a lot of cycles in cattle prices, weather, and preferences in breeds and genetics within breeds. Raising cattle for those lengths of time in very drought prone areas of South Texas forces one to, knowingly or unknowingly, select for what Beefmaster breeders call the “6 Essentials” just to stay in business. While they are all important, without fertility the others do not matter. In early June of this year we concluded our Spring A.I. breeding at which time our ranches were improving but still impacted by the drought that started in the Fall of 2010. The importance of fertility and why we have continued to involve Classic Cotton and Cornerstone genetics in our cattle were again manifested when two of the cows to come in heat and AI’d in this last round of breeding were a 13-year-old Classic Cotton daughter with her two-month-old 12th natural calf at side and a 15-year-old Cornerstone daughter with her two-month-old 14th natural calf at side. This has not been their first drought.
Cornerstone Natural Selection X Phannie Marie U 1/2 • Typesetter / Pacesetter
365/8 - Cornerstone X Miss Dusty
Neither of these cows have been AI’d more than once each year nor exposed to more than one bull each year. Longevity of production greatly increases the profitability of fertility. Just think how cows producing this many consecutive years, as compared to growing more heifer calves to the point of producing a calf, would improve your bottom line. Our 972/7 cow pictured above is just one of several Classic Cotton X Miss Dusty donors we are flushing. We have an annual Fall Production Sale at our comfortable Sales Facility on our Wilson County Division eight miles west of Floresville, Texas. Our cattle are sold with numerous objective evaluations including adjusted weaning weights, adjusted yearling weights, sonogram carcass evaluations, pelvic measurements, U classified by a BBU representative and those sold as bred determined with certainty by sonogram to be safe in calf to the AI bull or safe in calf to a certain clean-up bull.
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B E E F M A S T E R S Bill & Dusty Carr, Owners • P.O. Box 2947, Laredo, Texas 78044-2947, (361) 586-5067 or (361) 215-3600 E-mail: carr4c@granderiver.net Webb County Division 30 miles NE of Laredo, Texas Wade Cornelius: (956) 744-3019
Wilson County Division 8 miles west of Floresville, Texas Kirk Carr: (830) 480-2660
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Kendall County Division Midway between Boerne and Fredericksburg, Texas Mike Redding: (830) 324-6524