That all sounds great, but the only reason I can reason someone would buy a bull would be to breed cows the year they are buying it. If they get a dud and a credit to next years sale, it sure doesn't help get the original job done which was to get bulls bred this year.
looking at satellite view on Google maps, I see a lot of green circles, several in very condensed areas. Are those heavier, flatter soils and what types of crops are growing under that irrigation, (corn, alfalfa, sudan, native hay??)
It seems irrigated alfalfa would do quite well on those sands, is there any alfalfa production in the sandhills. It baffles me as to the reasoning why an improved crop can't successfully be gr0wn when abundant fertilizer and water are applied.
Seeing soaps pictures of the heifers running on irrigated corn stalks, I have a few questions not being from that area. My understanding has always been that the low areas in the sandhills have a very high watertable and allow subirrigation of the grasses in those areas. The higher areas are...
so our ingenious government passes a law to put an industry out of business and now they repeal it and now a whole new set of people must jump through hoops to get back in the business, what happened to the infastructure that existed 6 years ago?
I guess that means we are keeping up with inflation. If those calves could clear $800 today, they'd still buy a new pickup and leave some cash to put in the bank. And a much nicer pickup than what was even available in 1965.
You'd have a black angus herd, all the herefords would have prolapsed, went blind and withered away. :twisted: Just having some Friday evening fun. :wink:
I would get your hereford genetics from a can, and cleanup with angus. Real good herefords are few and far between and the angus genetics are light years ahead of herefords as a total package and being widely available. I asked about this a year ago and ai'd my cows to Domino 3027 based off...
Crossbreeding continuously proves to be counterproductive to good carcass genetics. Aladar, Got any registration numbers on some of those bulls. Interested in your program.
why not sandy soil, does it require a richer soil than wheat or triticale does or is it just more sensitive to dry, I plant a lot of wheat and triticale in sand and does fine, curious now on the barley
Never used it, but have been trying to study up on different vac programs and seems on pfizer's selectvac site they recommend using it in combo with the first Bovi-shield shot, then booster a few weeks later with the bovi-shield.
Required Practices
•7- or 8-way clostridial/blackleg...
never heard of feedlots vaccinating every 30 days with a clostridial vaccine. I don't think the vacc has anything really to do with controlling animal intake. I've been wrong before but overeating shot has become a nickname for the clostridial vacc. I'd be scared of that vets advice.