Spring 2018

25. Hypovitaminosis A in Cattle

38. Este Preparado Si El Verano Se Pone Dificil

28. Organizations Move at the Speed of Trust

Research Leadership Animal Stewardship

33. To Be Safe Is to Be Aware

40. Las Organizaciones Avanzan a la Velocidad de la Confianza

44. Breakfast Cups The pot roast

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We are off and running in the new year of 2018! Hopefully this finds you out of the gate and running hard toward the goals you set forth for this year! As we wrap up each year, it often ends with some sort of celebration. We celebrate a great year or an average year, or maybe even celebrate the fact that we just survived another one. It is in that process that we assess the past year and all that has occurred, whether it be good or bad. Taking it a step further, we reflect on the year, for a few minutes or several hours, and look back at what we did well, what we did poorly and what would we do differently. This point of reflection is really about learning from our experiences, gaining knowledge and wisdom, and making conscious, intentional decisions going forward.

At the end of the year, many of us think about New Year’s resolutions, or “re-solutions”. We resolve to stop doing something, to save more money or to lose some weight and get in better shape. Research showed in 2015 that losing weight was the number one resolution, and by Valentine’s Day, more than a third of those people had traded in the resolution for a box of chocolates.

The fact remains, for many of us, holding up a New Year’s resolution for more than six months is a losing proposition. Our challenge to you is to not Assess, Reflect and Resolve only at the end of each year but to Assess, Reflect and Resolve every day. If we do this daily instead of once a year, our chance of succeeding at that resolution greatly increases. Daily assessing, reflecting and resolving is required for reaching our potential, gaining wisdom and achieving great success. Each of you has great potential, and we challenge you to unleash that great potential through daily assessment, reflection and resolution!

We have been hard at work within our PAC organization moving some key initiatives forward, all looking to serve our clients better. We have set forth some big, audacious goals on veterinary and producer education, research and data analysis, again striving to better serve you, our clients.

At PAC, our culture runs deep within our veins, and we all have a constant heartbeat to serve each of you. We look forward to continuing to do so through the opportunities you have so graciously given us.

Nels Lindberg, DVM

PS – A big shout out to Kelly Terrell for her non-stop hard work in bringing forth every issue of Protein Producers, which has grown from a simple newsletter to a full blown magazine! Thank you, Kelly!

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Contributors

Thank you to all those contributing multiple stories and insights to Protein Producers.

Arturo Pacheco, PHD

Arturo is a consulting ruminant nutritionist and a custom grazer in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Through his consulting services, he guides beef producers in efficient, cost effective feeding practices. He has clients throughout the Great Plains and Southwest. His goal is to help every sector of the beef industry provide an excellent product for the consumer. In addition to his consulting business, he and his wife manage a custom grazing business encompassing double stock yearlings and a forage based heifer development program.Arturo received his PhD from Kansas State University in Ruminant Nutrition. He completed his Master’s degree in Animal Breeding and Genetics at Texas Tech University, where he also received his Bachelor’s degree. He was raised in New Mexico on his family’s ranch and has worked on or managed grazing operations in a variety of environments from short grass to tall grass prairies.

Cover Photo Credits

Thank you to Katie Jorgensen of Jorgensen Farms in Exeter, NE for the cover picture.

Doug Smith, PhD

Doug is the Division Chair and an Assistant Professor of Animal Science and Agricultural Education and the Livestock Judging Coach at the University of Nebraska Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. ncta.unl.edu

The Pot Roast

We want to showcase the talented chefs that read our magazine. In this issue we are featuring Arturo and Wrenn Pacheco who run cattle in the Flint Hills of Kansas while also maintaining a fun and unique cooking blog which can be found at cookingwiththe cowboy.com. If you have a recipe that you would like to feature in The Pot Roast section of the magazine, please email us at kelly.terrell@pacdvms.com. Our goal is to continue discovering recipes from agriculture’s finest.

Thank you to all sponsors for supporting PAC & Protein Producers. Elanco Lallemand Micro