Northeast Texas AG & Industrial Directory 2021

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Volume 40, Edition 13

POSTAL CUSTOMER

March 26, 2020

PRODUCTION

The Rural Newspaper of Texas

Fine-tuning herds to the environment Minimum criteria for replacement heifers Genetics, management critical to process

Becomes pregnant during breeding season

By KAY LEDBETTER Extension Communications Matching cattle to the land available to graze and the nutrition it offers is critical in optimizing production in an operation. �ason Smith, �e�as ��� �gri�ife ��tension Service beef cattle specialist, �marillo, who is frequently contacted to help with problems cattle operators are having, was a speaker at the recent Southwest �eef Symposium in �marillo. “�ore often than not, as a nutritionist, I’m called in to �� a situation where the cattle and environment are not matched,” Smith said. �e e�plained how cattle selection and the operation’s environment feed off one another. Without balance, one will take away from the other. It’s important to know both what the cattle will need as well as what the land can offer.

Smith also stressed how important it is to keep records to document progress and problems.

Healthy as a calf

Calf without assistance by second birthday Between 1,2001,300 pounds mature

Calf without assistance after second birthday

MAKE CRITICAL FEMALE SELECTIONS “We need to ask a lot of a female if she is going to be a valuable component of the herd,” Smith said. “She needs to check a lot of bo�es if Bigger cows are not 5-pound increase in milk yield equals A single-unit increase in weaning rate has she is going to be the backbone of the operation.

15% increase in daily energy requirements a greater If she can’t do those things as a calf, then as a always better positive

Other notes

impact on herd revenue

See Herds, page 4

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