Listen to an audio version of the 09-07-22 Marketing articles:
Article 1: Manage Shrink When Marketing Weaned Calves
Article 2: Market Closeout:
Market Closeout
The key to profitability of any cow-calf operation.
Terminal traits have been the dominant selection criteria for the beef industry as a whole for quite some time. There are a couple of reasons for this focus. The first is that maternal traits, by necessity, had always been part of our selection parameters, so there was a lot of opportunity to improve carcass traits when we got the ability to select for them.