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Serving the Bos indicus Cattle Industry of America | June 2013
Santa Gertrudis Issue
The EAR june 2013 | 1
Columns
4
6
Have You Heard...the Truth
The Science of Bos inducus
6
Features
10
12
Bull Buyers’ Bill of Rights
The Versatility of Santa
Gertrudis
Departments
14
14
16
18
Beefmaster Headlines
Brahman Headlines
10
Bull buying season is well underway. The
bond and trust between buyer and seller in
the bull business is unique, and among the
strongest in agriculture. From a seller’s perspective, each supplier has a responsibility to produce a product that is capable of
making a positive contribution to the beef
cattle industry. It is an awesome responsibility and taken seriously by bull producers
across the country. You will find your bull
supplier is a valuable resource and one that
is often under utilized.
Brangus Headlines
Santa Gertrudis Headlines
Other
20
25
27
28
I was asked to write about Santa Gertrudis
cattle in this issue of The Ear and since I try to
write about most if not all the eared breeds
every month this might be hard to focus on
just one. Nevertheless I was thinking about
how I might accomplish this and decided that
maybe a little history of the breed in research
would be beneficial to folks raising Santa Gertrudis or those that are interested in the breed.
I went to the peer-reviewed Journal of Animal
Science, published by the American Society of
Animal Science, which, in my opinion, is one of
the premier research journals for beef cattle in
the US if not the world. You can access it (even
if you are not a member you can still read abstracts or email authors for a copy of their papers) at http://journalofanimalscience.org/
Industry News
Bos inducus Bulletin Board
Advertiser’s Index
Calendar
< On the Cover:
Santa Gertrudis bull by Nancy
Pruitt
2 | june 2013 The EAR
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Santa Gertrudis females have long been
known for their versatility and outstanding maternal traits. The Santa Gertrudis F1
female is highly prized among commercial
cattlemen and demand for these productive females often outpaces supply. Santa
Gertrudis influenced females are quickly becoming the commercial females of choice
across the United States. The versatility of
the Santa Gertrudis breed insures that it is
a compatible and profitable cross with a
wide variety of breeds and the results are a
highly marketable feeder and an extremely
valuable F1 replacement female.
Have You Heard....
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the Truth
“The Ear” will be featuring several American
breeds of cattle in the next five issues. Our first of
the series is the Santa Gertrudis breed. Be sure and
take a look at the ads and articles in this issue about
Santa Gertrudis.
“The Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle, named for
the Spanish land grant where Captain Richard King
first established the King Ranch, were developed to
thrive, prosper and gain weight on the native grasses
of the South Texas brush country.
The first and perhaps the most enduring efforts to produce the rugged
breed began in 1910 when the King Ranch decided to systematically crossbreed its Shorthorn and Hereford cattle with Brahman. After a few crosses,
the Brahman X Shorthorn cross showed the most promise, and the ranch
headed toward a cross of 3/8 Brahman and 5/8 Shorthorn as the optimum
blend of the two breeds.”
This was taken directly off the Santa Gertrudis Breeders International’s
website front pagecwww.santagertrudis.com. While meant to be an understandable cliff note description of Santa Gertrudis. In my opinion it gives
no justice to the amazing “AMERICAN ORIGINAL STORY” and heritage
that should be illustrated about the “industry changing” creation and innovation, along with the development, and global domination once thought of
and held by Santa Gertrudis cattle. At one time most of the largest ranches
in the World used Santa Gertrudis genetics in their breeding programs. Many
of the larger ranches in the United States ranching 1,000-50,000 head used
Santa Gertrudis genetics. Still today, ranches in Australia that run hundreds
of thousands of head of cattle choose Santa Gertrudis cattle as a large part of
their genetic program.
Santa Gertudis have seen a “REBIRTH OF POPULARITY” in the past
decade. WHY IS THIS? The Santa Gertrudis cross females are among the
most widely sought after females in the commercial cattle industry in the
southern United States. Santa Gertrudis cross cows develop into a moderate
mature weight, fertile, hardy, “mama cow” package that in turn produces an
incredible valuable, heavy calf year after year. Santa Gertrudis x Hereford
and Santa Gertrudis x Angus will sell at the top of any replacement female
market from Arizona to Florida. Since the drought of 2011 people have realized how crucial it is that the cow they run in the pasture needs to fit their
environment. Santa Gertrudis cattle sweat from the gland and handle heat,
drought and parasites as well as any cow in the business. If you are looking
for replacement females or bulls that will make some of the best in the business, then don’t hesitate to give these progressive Santa Gertrudis advertising
in this magazine a call. I know, first-hand, they are the best in the business.
We look forward to serving you.
Richard Hood
80 Years
The Science of Bos indicus
featuring Dr. Joe Paschal
Professor & Livestock Specialist
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Corpus Christi, Texas
of Santa Gertrudis
Research
I was asked to write about Santa Gertrudis cattle in this issue of The Ear and since I try to write
about most if not all the eared breeds every month
this might be hard to focus on just one. Nevertheless I was thinking about how I might accomplish
this and decided that maybe a little history of the
breed in research would be beneficial to folks raising Santa Gertrudis or those that are interested in
the breed. I went to the peer-reviewed Journal of
Animal Science, published by the American Society of Animal Science, which, in my opinion,
is one of the premier research journals for beef
cattle in the US if not the world. You can access
it (even if you are not a member you can still read
abstracts or email authors for a copy of their papers) at http://journalofanimalscience.org/
Santa Gertrudis cattle were written about in research 264 times since
1933. The very first article was written by C. I. Bray reporting on work done
by him and his major professor E. L. Jordan at the Louisiana Agricultural
Experiment Station several years before. (I can see I wasn’t the only procrastinator in getting my research published). He reported on Brahman vs. beef
(Hereford and Angus) crosses for growth and carcass. He did state that there
was a need to cross the Brahman with one or more of the beef breeds (as was
being done with the Santa Gertrudis in South Texas at the King Ranch, as he
noted) to take advantage of the increase in growth and environmental adaptability in the crossbred.
The next oldest publication was from W. H. Black a USDA animal husbandman (forerunner in a sense of today’s animal scientist) who wrote “Developing New Types of Beef Cattle for Semi-tropical Conditions” in 1935.
He stated “The warm climate, and the type and quality of vegetation found
in our extreme southern area require an unusual degree of hardiness. It is well
known by men who have given the breeds of British origin a fair trial in the
Gulf Coast Region, that scale cannot be maintained in purebred herds over
a period of years.” He notes the development of the Santa Gertrudis breed
at King Ranch as well as their experimentation with Afrikander cattle. Black
goes on to describe USDA’s interest in breeding Aberdeen-Angus cattle to
a Guzerat bull at the Jeanerette Research Station in Louisiana “to develop
a polled beefy breed of uniform color” that was 5/8-3/8s. These were obviously forerunners of today’s Brangus. It should be noted that by this time the
Lasater Ranch was well on its way to developing the Beefmaster breed but no
mention was made in Black’s paper.
In 1936, A. B. Caine of Iowa State College (now University) wrote about
“A Travel Course for Animal Husbandry Students”. He wrote at length how
the students traveled in a bus for 31 days across several states (total travel
about 5500 miles, a pretty good trip in the 1930s!) to view the major livestock and crop production regions. One of these trips brought them to Texas
and to the King Ranch where an interesting observation was made. In creating and breeding the Santa Gertrudis it was found that the horses on the
ranch were neither big nor fast enough so a “large rugged chestnut stallion of
Thoroughbred breeding” named “Solis” was brought in and bred to “Texas
Quarter horse mares” to fill the need. The chestnut color was selected because the lighter colored horses were frequently affected with an affliction
known as “Sand burn” a condition we now know is photosensitization. These
trips cost the students about $85, no small sum in the middle of the Great
Depression.
There was a lot of interest in the 1940s and 50s in environmental adaptability of beef breeds because it had been noted by scientists and cattle raisers
that cattle from temperate areas such as the Midwest did not develop as well
in the South. A. O. Rhoad, with USDA, measured solar reflectivity of several
breeds of cattle with differing hair coat colors (Brahman, Jersey,
Santa Gertrudis and Angus) and found that the lighter the coat
color the greater the solar reflectivity and possibly the greater the
heat tolerance.
Santa Gertrudis Research
Timeline
1930’s
1933: C.I. Bray and E.L. Jordan of
Louisiana Agricultural Experiment
Station study Brahman vs Beef
(Hereford and Angus)
1936: A.B. Caine of Iowa State College
released “A Travel Course for Animal
Husbandry Students”
1935: W.H. Black, a USDA Animal
Husbandman released “Developing
New Types of Beef Cattle for Semitropical Conditions”
1940’s - 1950’s
A.O. Rhead with the USDA measured
solar reflectivity of hair coat colors
Research started on bull gain test,
adjusted weaning weights, and how
long to feed & how to adjust.
1955: T.C. Cartwright of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station
studied thermoregulation using heat
chambers
1960’s
Research began on carcass measures,
growth of calves and milk production
of cows
1970’s
Research began into use as crossbreds,
retail yield and composition, male and
female reproduction, and tenderness
Study of Santa Gertrudis began at the
USDA Meat Animal Research Center
(MARC)
1980’s
Research focused on feedyard
performance, longevity, and hybrid
vigor
1990’s
More specific research into energy
requirements, EPDs, heparin binding
proteins, mineral utilization, and
lifetime performance
By the 1990’s, 169 research articles had
been published.
From 1990 - 2013 there were 94 more.
2000’s
Topics concerned genetic parameters:
first new tenderness values, validation
of commercially available genetic test,
and research involving the genes in the
breed that affect totl herd production.
Probably one of the seminal pieces of this series of studies was
that done by T. C. Cartwright of the then Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station at the Bluebonnet Farm (now the McGregor
Research Station) near Waco, Texas. His work (published in
1955) involved the use of heat chambers designed to provide
an ambient air temperature of 105 degrees F and 50% relative
humidity. He evaluated the respiration and heart rate and rectal
temperature of Hereford, Brahman, ½ Hereford x ½ Brahman
(F1), and a Santa Gertrudis bull and six heifers (among other
crosses). As one might expect the Herefords had higher respiration and pulse rates and temperatures and Brahmans had the
lowest. The Santa Gertrudis were intermediate and similar to
the F1. Respiration (the primary method of thermoregulation of
these cattle) of the Herefords was double that of the other breeds
regardless of whether or not they were in a heat chamber or in the field. Even
though the differences in thermoregulation were small, they would become
more important as other difficulties affecting cattle production in the tropics
(lack of improved grasses, mineral deficiencies, internal and external parasites, and diseases) were removed.
Other topics in the 50s included performance testing – bull gain tests
and adjusted weaning weights – how long to feed and how to adjust were
researched. In the 60s, carcass measures (as a result of the USDA yield grading system) were conducted and growth of calves and milk production of
cows were measured. Carcass work had been done prior to the 1960s but
little had included Santa Gertrudis cattle. In the 1970s research including
Santa Gertrudis really began with the USDA Meat Animal Research Center’s breed-wide comparison of the then available breeds. This followed with
research using Santa Gertrudis as crossbreds (not exactly why the breed was
founded originally) and more work in meat science (retail yield and composition). Novel work was done in measuring pelvic area (to reduce calving
difficulty), male and female reproduction, and finally interest in tenderness.
In the middle of the decade Santa Gertrudis cattle were involved in systems
analysis research in an attempt to aid in the prediction of what the optimal
management should be for specific genetics.
In the 1980s more research was conducted in crossbreeding but now a
strong interest developed in how Santa Gertrudis performed in the feedyard.
Longevity became important as a topic as did hybrid vigor (heterosis). Reproduction and heat stress also were researched. By the time the 90s came
around some 169 research articles had been published in the journal and
from 1990 until 2013 there were 94 more. In 1990 all the topics that had
been covered were included (crossbreeding, performance testing, milk yield,
carcass merit, etc.) but now the topics in the 52 papers were more specific –
energy requirements, Expected Progeny Difference (EPD), heparin binding
protein, mineral utilization, and lifetime performance. By 2000 the topics
concerned genetic parameters (important in EPD calculations) with some
of the first new tenderness values, validation of commercially available genetic tests and research involving the genes in the breed that affect total herd
production rather than individual animals. One thing I did notice was that
the number of authors on a given paper had increased; good research is time
consuming and expensive.
Santa Gertrudis cattle have held the interest of animal scientists and cattle
producers across the US but especially the southern states and south where
they play a major role in beef cattle production along with many of the other Eared breeds. Breeders of Santa Gertrudis, like breeders of other Eared
breeds, are working to genetically improve the performance of their breed to
match the production and marketing requirements of today’s modern beef
industry! v
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Beefmaster Headlines
Beefmaster Breeders & Youth Support West, Texas Relief Efforts
san antonio, tx (April 24, 2013) - Everything is bigger in Texas and
this was exemplified this past week when a small Texas town was faced with
a big explosion and several “big” hearts responded to help. One week ago
today the community of West, Texas was faced with a devastating fertilizer
explosion where several people perished and lost their homes. This big explosion motivated some of the “smallest” Beefmaster breeders to do something
to help the victims of West.
Members of the Junior Beefmaster Breeders Association (JBBA), whose parent group is the Beefmaster Breeders United (BBU), banded together on Sat.,
April 20, 2013 in Crockett, Texas at the East Texas / Louisiana Beefmaster
Marketing Group (BMG) sale and JBBA show to collect donations for the
West Volunteer Fire Department. JBBA members and sisters, Sarah and Micah Brock of Trinity, Texas, came up with the idea to collect money at the
sale and then contacted friends Braylee Mackie of Lott, Texas and Camrin
Byers of Henrietta, Texas who are also JBBA members to help with the effort.
“What if it was us that this happened to, we would want them to help us
too,” said Sarah Brock, a twelve-year-old with a big singing voice and even
bigger heart.
According to Anthony Mihalski, East Texas / Louisiana BMG sale manager
and auctioneer, it was a special day for everyone in attendance and a very
moving gesture by this great
group of JBBA members.
Before the sale began Sarah,
Braylee and Camrin addressed the audience and gave
a speech about their efforts
to donate funds to help the
West fire department. It was
then followed by Sarah Brock
singing a touching version of
the United States national anthem.
At the completion of the national anthem the JBBA members passed around
two cowboy hats through the sale crowd and the hats were filled with over
$1,300. This is an outstanding amount and outstanding effort by three kids
that just wanted to help a small community similar to their hometowns.
The money was counted and prepared for donation with the help of parents
Brenda Brock and Tricia Mackie.
“It was all the kid’s idea, the collection and the speech. The kids had a great
idea and Sarah really inspired people to donate with her beautiful and patriContinued on page 14
Bull Buyer’s Bill of Rights
By Mark Cowan
Bull buying season is well underway. The bond and
trust between buyer and seller in the bull business is
unique, and among the strongest in agriculture. From a
seller’s perspective, each supplier has a responsibility to
produce a product that is capable of making a positive
contribution to the beef cattle industry. It is an awesome
responsibility and taken seriously by bull producers across
the country. You will find your bull supplier is a valuable
resource and one that is often underutilized.
As a bull buyer you have certain expectations your supplier should meet.
If you ask, you may be surprised by your supplier’s ability to exceed expectations.
I. All data is accurately reported and is being used.
It is vital when you are buying bulls that you are able to accurately assess
the genetic merit of the bulls being offered. Only if all data is reported will
this occur. If only the best cattle are reported, then half of the best will ratio
below 100, and will not reflect their true merit relative to the cow herd. Long
term, it will affect the performance values of their dams and future calves. In
addition, you should be able to expect that your supplier is using the data
collected to make true genetic progress in their herd.
II. My bull supplier provides Expected Progeny Differences for comparative value.
Not only is it important for you to be able to compare the relative merit
between bulls in an offering, through weights and ratios, it is important to
be able to evaluate the merit of the bulls being offered compared to all bulls
available. The only tool available to compare bulls from different programs
and in various locations and environments, are EPDs. Data turned in by your
bull supplier and others, is compared in their breed’s National Cattle Evaluation and EPDs are reported.
III. My bull supplier is able to explain the meaning of the various
EPD values and offers council in their use.
There are many EPD values being reported by many different breed associations. Your bull supplier should be able to explain the various EPDs,
their meaning in your program and their merits. In many instances bigger is
not always better. Many traits are antagonistic and you should be aware of
the consequences. For example, Yearling Weight EPD and mature cow size
are highly correlated, how big is too big in your program? Milking ability,
especially if carried to the extreme, or if nutrition becomes a limiting factor,
is highly antagonistic to reproductive performance.
IV. My bull supplier is aware of my program and goals and is willing
to assist in selection of bulls that fit my goals.
Part of the bond and trust between buyer and seller is the sharing of goals
and information that becomes a two way street. Your producer should be
attuned to your needs and assist you in selecting bulls to meet those goals.
They raised the bulls you are buying, and in many cases, their dams and
grand dams. They can identify the bulls with the complementary traits you
seek, and keep you from getting into wrecks when working with multiple
antagonistic traits, better than anyone else.
V. My bull supplier is using all applicable technology to help accomplish my goals.
There are many tools available today to assist you in accomplishing your
goals. Ultrasound technology is useful in evaluating carcass traits, diagnosing
pregnancy status and sexing pregnancies. Feed efficiency is being measured
and tested, if you are using this in your operations. DNA technology is becoming more and more useful as additional markers are identified.
VI. My bull supplier is industry current.
Your bull supplier should be aware of the industry, trends in supply and
demand, and market forces at work shaping long term trends. They should
be aware of the technology available and adapt the useful tools when the
cost and return justify the investment. In other words, when the amount of
meaningful information and data produced by the technology and its value
equals the cost, they should invest in the technology.
VII. My bull supplier develops his bulls with their longevity in mind.
Your bull supplier should provide an environment and plane of nutrition
that allows the bulls to express their genetic differences for growth, while
providing them with adequate exercise. The bulls should be well developed
while maintaining their athleticism and cleanliness of joints.
VIII. My Bull Supplier has a comprehensive heard health program.
The health of your bull begins with the health of the cowherd. From a
regular deworming program to a preventative vaccination program, your bull
provider should maintain good herd health. You should be assured that your
bull purchase will not introduce disease into your program.
IX. My bull supplier stands behind his bull in case of product failure.
No bull supplier ever plans to have a bull he sells go bad. But as sure as
death and taxes, some bulls will fail. Your supplier should recognize this fact
and assist you in rectifying the problem.
X. My bull supplier is breeding cattle that fit my long term goals.
You should examine your long term goals. You should examine the long
term goals of your supplier and be comfortable that you can build a long term
bond and trust with that supplier as you continue to develop your program.
As a bull buyer, by asking your supplier for their help and assistance, you
will gain a valuable resource and improve your accuracy when selecting bulls.
Remember, ask! v
The
Versatility
of Santa Gertrudis
By John Ford
Executive Director of Santa Gertrudis Breeders International
Santa Gertrudis females have long been known
for their versatility and outstanding maternal
traits. The Santa Gertrudis F1 female is highly
prized among commercial cattlemen and demand
for these productive females often outpaces supply.
Santa Gertrudis influenced females are quickly be-
coming the commercial females of choice across
the United States. The versatility of the Santa
Gertrudis breed insures that it is a compatible and
profitable cross with a wide variety of breeds and
the results are a highly marketable feeder and an
extremely valuable F1 replacement female.
National Steer
Feedout
Over 1,000 head of purebred
Santa Gertrudis steers tested
Average daily gain: 3.49 lbs
Warner-Bratzler Shear Force:
6.25 lbs
Texas A&M
University
Ranch to Rail
Purebred Santa Gertrudis
steers had net profit of
$100.87/head, compared to
minus $50.29 for 1,334 steers
representing other breeds
and crosses
Kansas & Texas Trial
In Kansas 116 steers had
average daily gain of 3.84 lbs
In Texas 58 steers had average
daily gain of 3.93 lbs
West Texas A&M
University
90 purebred steers harvested,
graded 77% choce or
premium choice
Commercial cattlemen understand today’s volatile business environment
demands females that are productive for an extended period, females that
wean a heavy healthy calf in the most challenging of environmental conditions, and females flexible enough to fit into a wide variety of breeding
schemes from the Carolina Coastal Plains to the rugged and arid Southwest.
Santa Gertrudis influenced females fit the bill and cattlemen that infuse Santa Gertrudis genetics into their programs quickly find that they have made a
profitable and sound business decision.
There is no doubt that the breed’s outstanding maternal qualities are
worth bragging about and throughout the years a majority of Santa Gertrudis Breeders International promotional efforts have focused on maternal
performance. However, the breed’s efficiency as feeders and outstanding carcass traits highlight the fact that Santa Gertrudis cattle are competitive and
profitable in every sector of the industry. The recently concluded National
Steer Feedout emphasizes the fact that Santa Gertrudis are efficient feeders
that produce high quality lean carcasses. Over 1,000 head of purebred Santa
Gertrudis steer were tested in the feeding trial, the average daily gain was
an extremely acceptable 3.49 pounds and the average Warner-Bratzler Shear
Force (tenderness) measurement of 6.25 pounds was well under the 7 pounds
considered tender, proof that the final product is consumer pleasing. A Texas
A&M University Ranch to Rail feeding trial, found that purebred Santa Ger-
trudis steers had a net profit of $100.87 per head, compared to minus $50.29
for 1,334 steers representing other breeds and crosses.
116 purebred Santa Gertrudis steers fed in a 133 day Kansas test had an
average daily gain of 3.84 pounds, while 58 purebred Santa Gertrudis steers
gained 3.93 pounds per day in a 163 day Texas trial. Earlier this year in a
quality study conducted by West Texas A&M University, 90 purebred Santa
Gertrudis steers harvested at a Texas Panhandle plant graded 77% choice
or premium choice. Santa Gertrudis breeders have been focused on carcass
quality for a number of years. The collection of ultrasound data has been
and remains a common practice for numerous breeders. Thanks to stringent
selection practices it is not uncommon to find bulls with IMF (intramuscular
fat) scan percentages in the 4.00 – 5.50 range. The data is undeniable and
it supports the fact that Santa Gertrudis cattle produce a highly desirable
carcass with consumer pleasing results.
Cattlemen are taking notice and it is evident by the 5% increase in purebred registrations experienced by Santa Gertrudis Breeders International in
2012. Cattlemen looking for added heterosis, exceptional maternal traits,
profitable feeders and consumer-pleasing results need to look no farther than
Santa Gertrudis. v
Continued from page 8.
otic national anthem. It was a special day,” said Mihalski.
Beefmaster female that was donated for the relief fund sold for $1,700.
J.D. and Dixie Laird of Four Forks Beefmasters in Groesbeck, Texas also
participated in the outpour of support for the West relief fund. Four Forks
donated to the West Volunteer Fire Department the money from the sale of
a Beefmaster female sold during the BMG sale. According to Mihalski, the
As of today, the JBBA members have contacted the West fire department to
let them know the funds have been collected and the package enclosed with
money order and a thank you letter has been sent to their relief fund.
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Feed Efficiency Testing for Summer 2013 Starts Soon
navasota, TX - The Genetic Development Center in Navasota, Texas is
hosting a Summer 2013 feed efficiency test that is just around the corner.
They will be accepting bulls and heifers June 10-12, 2013 for entry into their
third feed efficiency. Eligible age ranges to enter the feed efficiency test are
September 1 - December 15, 2012 born calves.
The Genetic Development Center (GDC) is a state of the art bull and heifer
development facility boasting the largest and most advanced individual feed
intake system in the southern United States. The only one of its kind in the
south, the GDC can deliver individual feed efficiency data to producers while
still growing and developing their animals like a regular gain test. The proven
individual feed intake technology of
GrowSafe Systems Ltd provides accurate feed efficiency data as well as tradi-
tional performance and gain measurements. Also located on the property are
Sexing Technologies’ ET and IVF embryo facilities, as well as their custom
semen sorting division.
They ask that producers who are sending animals complete the Summer
2013 Entry Info Form and send it back to the Genetic Development Center
via mail, email or fax. The contract and field sheets will need to be completed
and are due upon animal arrival. The entry form helps the center get a general
head count and the contract/field sheet gives us detailed information about
each animal to have on our files (ranch tag, date of birth, registration #).
For more information or to visit the facility please contact the Genetic Development Center directly at (936) 870-3960 or geneticdevelopmentcenter.
com. They do encourage interested producers to visit the facility!
Brahman Headlines
Education, Association Involvement & Scholarships
mercedes, tx (May 4, 2013) - “The theme for the first RGV Brahman
& F-1 Associaton Field Day was education, association involvement and
scholarships. The event was held on May 4th and was hosted by the RGV
President Mike England and his family at their farm near Mercedes, Texas.
It was dedicated to his late ag teacher, mentor and fellow Brahman breeder
Pete Abrigo whose family was on hand to coordinate the silent auction which
raised over $6,000 to kick off the RGV Scholarship fund and add to the Pete
Abrigo Memorial Scholarship Fund. We want to THANK all of the donors,
bidders, buyers and field day participants ” states Carlos X. Guerra.
“The weather was perfect for a great crowd of both young and old Brahman
breeders, Brahman juniors, Brahman enthusiasts, commercial producers and
their families from Texas, Louisiana and Mexico. The food was provided by
the Valley’s own Benny and James Cano who together with their families
served up a delicious Brahman carne guisada with authentic Pan de Campo.
The Canos are big time supporters of our youth and are always VOLUNTEERING to help. Several RGV breeders had top quality Brahman (mostly
polled) and F-1 cattle on display in the same barn and pens that Crickett
England’s family has used for their Brahman cattle for the past 60 years”
added Guerra.
“Chris Shivers talked
about what all ABBA offer it’s members. Cary
Crowe with Trans Ova
talked about all the in
and outs of ET and IVF.
Javier Moreno discussed
Mike England & Pete Abrigo Family
how ET has helped his
program succeed. Mike England talked about his successful F-1 program.
Carlos X. Guerra Jr. touched on the programs that the RGV Brahman & F-1
Association has established. Danny Acevedo visited with everyone about
his success in feeding out Brahman steers. Carlos X. Guerra moderated the
program and also talked about the History and Future of RGV Brahman
cattle. He also gave the crowd some interesting marketing tips. Many questions were asked and everyone enjoyed and learned from the program” states
Mike England.
The RGV Association appreciates the coverage given the event by Yvonne
Charanza of the Brahman Review and Carl Lambert of the Brahman Journal.
For more information please contact Mike England at 956 330 0916 or [email protected] or Carlos X. Guerra Jr. at [email protected].
Lee Forrester Memorial Scholarship to Presented at 2013 All American
houston, tx - The Lee Forrester family and American Junior Brahman
Association are pleased to announce the addition of the Lee Forrester Memorial Scholarship, a $500 scholarship to be presented each year to the grand
champion showman at the “All American” National Junior Brahman Show.
Showmanship was very important to Forrester, who was one of the few twotime grand champion showman award winners at the “All American.” He
also served as an AJBA director and friend to many AJBA Members.
Members of the Forrester family will present the grand champion showman
with an award certificate at the time of their championship, with the schol-
arship being funded at the time of
the winners high school graduation.
Scholarship contributions may
be sent to the ABBA office with a
check designation to the Forrester
Memorial Scholarship.
For more information on this or
other scholarships available through
AJBA, please contact the Houston
headquarters at 713-349-0854.
ABRI Offers Breed App
ABRI, the firm that handles the ABBA registry, is now offering an app for
breed organizations. You can download the app from Google Play store for
Android phones or iTunes for iPhones by searching “INSolutions” under
app name.
INSolutions allows individual users to instantly access detailed information about registered animals
from a complete electronic herdbook for ABBA and
other breed organizations.
The cost is $2 which goes to ABRI to help cover development cost.
The app enables users to access a number of different services, including sale catalogs, semen catalogs,
animal searched, and member searches.
INSolutions is an add-on to the successful Internet Solutions web-based service that has been developed in Australia by the Agricultural Business Research Institute for application within the livestock industry.
Brangus Headlines
GENETRUST at Suhn Cattle Co. 20th Anniversary Bull Sale
Eureka, KS (March 26, 2013) - An unexpected snow storm that left roads
blocked Sunday morning brought much needed moisture and did not deter
either registered or commercial breeders from attending the 20th Anniversary Sale of Suhn Cattle Company, a partner in the GENETRUST marketing
alliance. The day of the sale, March 26th, found roads passable and a packed
crowd of cattle enthusiasts evaluating the offering. Comments from the buyers that this was definitely the most impressive and uniform set of bulls ever
presented at Suhn Cattle Company.
The sale began with Lot 75, Suhn’s Foundation 331Z28, a bull bred by Vernon & Vicki Suhn, Suhn Cattle Company, Eureka, KS. He was by GR Swift
209W3 a son of the high IMF producer, Lambert of Brinks, and out of a full
sister to the great maternal sire, Suhn’s Next Step 331R7. This extraordinary
standout is big boned, deep ribbed with top end performance and a great
disposition. With rankings in the top 4% for yearling weight, top 5% for
rib eye area and the top 10% for weaning weight he had captivated the eye
of many. The bidding was intense from ringside, DVAuction and via the
telephone. The winning bid was captured by Double W Ranch, David and
Nada Wood, Houston, TX for $66,000 for ½ interest and possession.
The second high selling individual was Lot 164, Suhn’s Rembrandt 919Z8.
His sire, Suhn’s Advantage 331T5, is a member of the ABS Global
Brangus Sire roster, and
his dam is a daughter
of Suhn’s Next Step
331R7. Rembrandt not
only ranks in the top 5%
of the breed for yearling
weight, top 10% for
weaning and scrotal plus
Lot 75, Suhn’s Foundation 331Z28 - High selling lot
a top 20% for REA but
was also impressive with
his eye catching phenotype. This herd sire prospect was purchased for $35,000 for ½ interest and
possession by TJM Ranch, Jack and Peggy Moore, Kerrville, TX.
The next high selling lot attracted considerable attention due to the by-law
change passed by the International Brangus Breeders Association membership. This rule change allows top-crossing Ultrablacks back to 7/8ths Brangus
and those resulting animals being registered as Brangus. This Ultrablack bull,
Lot 148, Suhn’s-RYR Fusion 894Z5, was one of the first to be offered at
public auction that fit this criterion. Bred by Suhn Cattle Company, he was
purchased by Robert Yates Ranch, Hamptonville, NC for $20,000.
The Ultrablack bulls continued to draw a lot of attention as in past years.
This year’s Ultrablack offering included over twice as many bulls as we have
sold in the past years. Nevertheless, this did not diminish the strong demand
that we have seen rapidly building from our customers. Another highlight
Ultrablack bull was bred by Dale and Nancy Kirkham, Eureka, KS and sold
for $15,000 to GENETRUST partner, Randy Schmidt, Schmidt Farms,
Texarkana, TX. Lot 96, KB Dakota Gold 402Z2 combined great ratios in
his contemporary group; plus, impressive phenotype of thickness of topline
and rear quarter coupled with outstanding base width.
Buyers represented thirteen states from Florida to California. Averages for the
Brangus bulls selling was $5,343 and the Ultrablack averaged was $5,518.
Volume buyers were Frosty Tipton, Winnemucca, NV; Wayne Ammons,
Roveline, LA; and the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
106 Brangus bulls averaged $5,343
38 Ultrablack bulls $5,518
IJBBA Announcements
The NJBS and Futurity Entry Booklet is available for download on the
http://junior.gobrangus.com/ along with entry deadlines.
IJBBA is now accepting applications for the IJBBA’s premier leadership posi-
tions! Applications are available by contacting Tyler Dean via at [email protected] or by phone at (405) 867-1421.Deadline for both applications
to be returned to Tyler is June 20, 2013.
Data Due
All data for the next Brangus National Cattle Evaluation needs to be in the
herdbook by 6:00 a.m., Monday, July 8. If you are wanting the office staff to
enter the data, they need to have it no later than June 17 to ensure they have
adequate time to enter it.
Santa
Gertrudis Headlines
SGBI Names 2013 Officers & Board
Curtis Salter of Milton, Florida was elected President of Santa Gertrudis
Breeders International during the annual membership meeting held in Corpus Christi, Texas April 18th – 20th. Salter owns and manages a purebred
and commercial cow calf operation in the Panhandle of Florida. Prior to
assuming the role of president, Salter served as Vice President of Marketing and Promotion. During his tenure as Vice President, SGBI expanded its
outreach efforts increasing their presence and involvement with state cattle
associations and ag related expos on a national level. Elected to serve on the
Executive Board were: Vice President of Performance Gary Harding, Warner,
Oklahoma, Vice President of Marketing and Promotion, Cheryll Grangier,
Brenham, Texas, Vice President of Membership, Bud Clark, DeSoto, Mis-
Executive Director Highlights Association Success
Santa Gertrudis Breeders International Executive Director John Ford provided membership with an overview of association activities during the annual
membership meeting held in Corpus Christi, Texas, April 18th – 20th. Ford
reported that purebred registrations increased 5% during 2012 and purebred transfers rose 2.8%. He attributed the growth to increasing demand for
Santa Gertrudis genetics from the commercial sector as well as the return of
customer services to the Kingsville, Texas headquarters after a 5 year absence.
Ford noted that an improved marketing strategy that includes the use of
social media, web sources, and a targeted print media campaign also played a
role in the growth. In addition to an increase in registrations, Ford reported
souri, Secretary-Treasurer, Deanna
Parker, Cave City, Kentucky, Vice
President of Long Range Planning, Wes McDaniel, Alpharetta, Georgia, and Vice President of Youth
Activities Tom DuBois, Jewett, Texas. In addition to the Executive Board,
elected to serve on the Board of Directors were: Pat Stults, Texas, Warren
Harris, New Mexico, Gene McCarter, Tennessee, Yancey Strait, Texas, Darrell Pitchford, Texas, David Alderson, Tennessee, Darren Richmond, Georgia, John Denson, Georgia, Wylie Taliaferro, Texas, Debbie Gautz, Missouri,
and John Kiker, Texas.
that there was an upward trend in membership during the last quarter of the
fiscal year.
SGBI ended the 2012 fiscal year in a sound position exceeding budget projections. Ford credited the profitable performance to a number of business
decisions made by the Board of Directors in 2012 including the return of
customer services to Kingsville, contracting Livestock Genetic Services for
pedigree and genetic evaluation services, and the partnership with BluePrint
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SGBI Performance Committee Moves on Improved Evaluation Tools
Earlier this spring the Santa Gertrudis Breeders International Performance
Committee instructed John Genho, Livestock Genetic Services, to move forward on a proposal to incorporate genotypes into the breed’s EPDs. Genho
is to assist the committee with the identification of 100 sires for genotyping
with a 50K High Density Chip. The committee will be evaluating sires that
SGBI Releases 2013-2017 Long Range Plan
Wes McDaniel, Vice President of Long Range Planning, has announced that
the 2013-2017 SGBI Long Range Plan is now available. The plan is titled
SGBI Road Map for Success. The document is a culmination of two years
of work by SGBI Membership, the Long Range Planning Committee, and
industry professionals. Assistance in developing the plan was provided by
New Web Site Launched
Santa Gertrudis Breeders International has launched a new web site designed
to better serve members and promote the many positive attributes of the
breed. The site was designed and is being managed by Encore Visions of
have high accuracy EPDs, are frequently found in current pedigrees, and
bulls that cover portions of pedigrees not covered by sires already genotyped.
The committee also began collecting data and reviewing information for the
development of a performance index that can be easily utilized by commercial producers.
Texas A&M University Kingsville-King Ranch Institute of Ranch Management. The 5 year document focuses on improving member and customer
profitability, sustainability, and satisfaction. Copies of the 2013-2017 Road
Map for Success can be obtained by contacting Santa Gertrudis Breeders
International, 361-592-9357.
Haskell, Texas. The updated site allows members to easily access records,
data, and information. It also provides information on up-coming events,
performance data, show results and sale results
Industry News
59th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course Schedules Aug. 5-7 in College Station
college station - The 59th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short
Course is scheduled Aug. 5-7 at Texas A&M University in College Station.
Weather outlook and a cattle market outlook are two of the featured
topics to be discussed during the general session scheduled Aug. 5.
“A lot of producers are wanting to know how long this current market
cycle will last and how to go about herd expansion strategies in the
future,” said Dr. Jason Cleere, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
beef cattle specialist in College Station and conference coordinator.
“The long-term outlook is one of the many topics that will be featured
in the 22 different cattleman’s college sessions at the short course.”
The famous Texas Aggie Prime Rib Dinner will be held as part of the
59th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course activities. (Texas A&M
AgriLIfe Extension Service photo by Blair Fannin)
The short course has become one of the largest and most comprehensive
beef cattle educational programs in the U.S., Cleere noted.
The cattleman’s college portion provides participants with an opportunity to choose workshops based on their level of production experience
and the needs of their ranch, Cleere said.
“These concurrent workshops will feature information on introductory
cattle production, retiring to ranching, management practices in the
areas of forage, nutrition and reproduction, record keeping, genetics,
purebred cattle, landowner issues and much more,” he said.
Senate Rejects Bid to Let States Run Food Stamps
In addition to classroom instruction, participants can attend one of the
popular demonstrations on the morning of Aug. 7.
“There will be demonstrations on fence building, chute-side calf working, cattle behavior, penning and Brush Busters,” Cleere said. “These
provide an opportunity for ranchers to see beef cattle production practices put to use.
“The goal of the short course each year is to provide the most cuttingedge information that is needed by beef cattle producers. We think we
have information for everyone to take home and apply to their operations.”
Participants can receive a Texas Department of Agriculture private pesticide applicator’s license during the short course and can earn at least
seven pesticide continuing education units if they are already licensed,
Cleere added.
An industry trade show will be held during the event, featuring more
than 110 agricultural businesses and service exhibits.
Registration is $160 per person and includes educational materials, a
copy of the 600-page Beef Cattle Short Course proceedings, trade show
admittance, admission to the prime rib dinner, lunches, breakfasts and
daily refreshments.
Registration information and a tentative schedule will be mailed to previous participants in May, but can also be found on the short course
website at http://beef.tamu.edu. Producers can also register by contacting Cleere’s office at 979-845-6931.
~AgriLife TODAY
washington (ap) - The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican bid to turn the federal food stamp program over to the states.
decide how to use the money, with certain restrictions. The Senate rejected the amendment 60-36.
The current program, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, or SNAP, is administered by the Agriculture Department and
federal dollars are unlimited as long as recipients qualify. The program
cost $78 billion last year, more than double the price in 2008.
The total amount of the grants would have been capped at between
$46 billion and $54 billion a year over 10 years. Inhofe said the change
would make the farm bill, which long has set policy for domestic food
aid as well as agriculture programs, “into a farm bill and not a charity
bill.”
A proposal by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., to a wide-ranging farm bill
would have converted the program into grants to states, which could
Food stamps have come under renewed scrutiny as the program’s costs
have ballooned in recent years. Many Republicans have favored changing the SNAP program into grants, though the idea has never gained
much traction in Congress.
Last year more than 47 million people used SNAP. The numbers have
risen rapidly because of the economic downturn, higher food prices and
expanded eligibility under the 2009 economic stimulus law.
Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, who heads the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, said Inhofe’s plan
would mean “devastating results or millions of families who are trying
to feed their children.”
The Senate farm bill would cut the food stamp program by $400 million a year, or about half of 1 percent. The Senate rejected a Republican
amendment to increase that cut and a Democratic amendment to decrease the cut Tuesday.
without heating bills small amounts of heating assistance so they automatically can qualify for higher food stamp benefits. The House also
would eliminate giving people automatic food stamp benefits when
they sign up for certain other programs.
Resolving the differences on food aid will be key to passage of the fiveyear farm bill that lawmakers are attempting to push through for the
third year in a row. The legislation costs almost $100 billion annually
and would set policy for farm subsidies, other rural programs and the
domestic food aid.
The Senate is expected to consider several more amendments to the
farm bill this week, including cuts to government-subsidized crop insurance.
The House version of the farm bill would cut $2 billion a year, or a little
more than 3 percent, from the domestic food aid.
The Senate passed a similar farm bill last year, but the House did not
consider it. The House Agriculture Committee approved its version of
the farm bill last week and the full House is expected to vote on the bill
this summer.
Both the Senate and House bills would target states that give people
~Capital Press
NFU Outlines Farm Bill Priorities for House Committee on Agriculture
National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson sent a letter
to members of the US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, outlining priorities, such as funding programmes, research and
farmer protection, ahead of the scheduled 2013 Farm Bill markup.
“NFU is pleased that the House Agriculture Committee is taking up the
2013 Farm Bill,” said Mr Johnson.
“We are encouraged by the language included in the commodity title
that provides protections to family farmers when disasters strike and
during times of long-term price collapse. We oppose any modifications
that would undermine the integrity of the Price Loss Coverage program.”
Also outlined in the letter are the following positions:
• NFU supports Rep. Walz’s amendment (number 3) to provide $800
million of mandatory funding to the farm bill energy title.
• NFU opposes Rep. Conaway’s amendment (number 5) that would
undo certain Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) protections for farmers.
• NFU supports Rep. Enyart’s amendment (number 12) that would
encourage the U.S. Air Force to develop a program providing competitive grants to existing biofuel research centers.
• NFU opposes Rep. Goodlatte’s amendment (number 17) to dismantle the sugar program.
• NFU opposes Rep. Austin Scott’s amendment (number 20) to
eliminate Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements for
livestock and poultry.
• NFU supports Rep. Courtney’s amendment (number 51) to restore
mandatory funding to the National Organic Program.
• NFU opposes Rep. Goodlatte’s amendment (number 56) to remove
stabilization programs from the dairy reform language in the committee’s draft.
• NFU supports Rep. Noem’s amendment (number 67) that would
allow Rural Energy for America Program funds to be used for the
installation of blender pumps.
• NFU supports Rep. Costa’s amendment (number 69) to restore
funding to the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program.
• NFU opposes Rep. Lujan Grisham’s amendment (number 83) to
prohibit the slaughter of horses for human consumption.
“NFU urges House leadership to take the bill to the full House floor as
soon as possible so that a five-year farm bill can be accomplished prior
to the approaching September 30 deadline,” added Mr Johnson.
~TheCattleSite News Desk
Heat Stress During the Dry Period Affects Calves Too
Research from the University of Florida shows that calves exposed to heat
stress before birth have lower birth weights and compromised immunity.
Cows that experience heat stress during their dry period produce less
milk, write research staff at Penn State University.
They are also more prone to disease, and are more difficult to breed back
than cows that do not suffer from heat stress just prior to calving.
These negative impacts of heat stress on cows are well known. But what
about calves these cows are carrying? Previous research has determined
that calves born to cows that experience heat stress have lower birth
weights, and colostrum IgG content has been shown to be reduced as
well.
A recent study conducted at the University of Florida offers some new
insight into calves born to cows that experienced heat stress during the
dry period. This study was published in the December, 2012 issue of the
Journal of Dairy Science.
For this experiment 34 dry cows were housed in freestall barn for 45 days
prior to calving and were exposed to ambient environmental conditions
or provided with cooling from fans and sprinklers.
Measurements of rectal temperatures and respiration rates as well as reduced feed intake during the dry period and lower milk production during the subsequent lactation confirmed that the cows that were not cooled
did indeed experience heat stress. All calves were weighed at birth, and
subsequent measurements were evaluated on heifer calves only (n=21).
Calves born to heat-stressed dams weighed 13 pounds less at birth and 28
pounds less at weaning than calves born to dams with access to cooling.
Average daily gain from birth to weaning was not different for the two
groups of calves. Body weight and withers height from weaning through
7 months of age were not impacted by heat stress.
In this study colostrum IgG content was not affected by heat stress. However, calves born to heat-stressed dams were less efficient in absorbing IgG
from colostrum and had lower serum IgG concentrations for the first 28
days of life than calves born to cooled cows, indicating reduced passive
transfer of immunity.
Calves exposed to heat stress before birth also had a compromised T-cell
response, as measured by the number of monocytes in circulation at 7,
28, 42, and 56 days of age. The response of B-cells was evaluated at 4
weeks of age by an ovalbumin challenge and did not differ between calves
in the two groups. Effects of heat stress on B-cell function before this
time cannot be determined from this study.
These results confirm that calf body weight can be significantly impacted
by heat stress during the final weeks of gestation. In addition, both passive transfer and cell-mediated immunity were compromised in calves
exposed to heat stress.
With summer just around the corner, now is the time to evaluate cooling
strategies for all the animals in your herd; don’t forget about those dry
cows.
~TheCattleSite
New Discovery Makes Detecting Johne’s Disease Easier
USDA scientists have got round the issue of inaccurate Johne’s disease
testing by finding an antibody that specifically reacts to the Johne’s
bacterium.
Before a disease can be treated, it must first be identified. But that’s not
always easy, especially in the case of Johne’s disease, which affects cattle,
sheep, goats, deer, and other ruminants.
Johne’s disease—also known as “paratuberculosis”—is a costly, contagious disease that causes diarrhea, reduced feed intake, weight loss,
and sometimes death. Annual estimated losses to cattle producers range
from $40 to $227 per infected animal. For the U.S. dairy industry
alone, losses exceed $220 million each year.
For years, scientists have been hampered by the fact that any antibody—a protein produced by the immune system to fight infections
and foreign substances—used to detect the Johne’s disease bacterium
also reacted to other environmental bacteria or maybe the pathogen responsible for bovine tuberculosis. This caused false-positive test results.
“You may think cattle are infected, based on a positive antibody test
result, but they may simply have been exposed to nonpathogenic mycobacteria that’s ubiquitously present in the environment,” says microbiologist John Bannantine at the Agricultural Research Service’s National
Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa.
That problem, however, is now history. Bannantine and his colleagues
at NADC have found an antibody that’s 100 percent specific in detecting Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP)—the
cause of Johne’s disease.
“No one else in the world has been able to find such a specific antibody
that binds only to MAP strains, until now,” says Bannantine, who’s in
NADC’s Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit.
A Wild Goose Chase
After identifying the new antibody—called “17A12”—from mice immunized with MAP strain K-10, scientists decided to dig a little deeper
to determine the protein this novel antibody binds to.
Initially, researchers believed they had found a new gene encoding the
antibody-binding protein that was not originally identified in the MAP
K-10 genome. They called it “UP1” (Unique Protein 1).
“In 2005, we sequenced the genome of a MAP cattle strain, and then
annotated it—finding all the genes and identifying where they start and
where they stop,” Bannantine says. “But the 17A12 antibody bound to a
protein encoded by a gene that was not annotated in the MAPgenome.
This was unusual, but we were excited about finding a potentially new
gene.”
To confirm this unusual finding, Bannantine developed additional
monoclonal antibodies to the UP1 protein. Only one of these new antibodies reacted with the native protein produced by MAP. It also happened to bind to the same area of the protein as the initial antibody—
17A12.
monoclonal antibody, and we saw this as confirmation that UP1 was
real, even though it wasn’t annotated in the genome,” Bannantine says.
Finding the Right Protein
But some of the data just didn’t add up. After additional experiments, it
turned out that UP1 was not a real gene after all.
“It completely blew my mind. I had never had a day in the lab like that
where there was such a revelation,” Bannantine says. “When we first
got the results contradicting UP1 as a real gene, it was scary because
we thought we had made some big mistakes. Then slowly all the pieces
started to fit together, and we knew what we actually had. It was incredible.”
Although UP1 was not a gene, it had an epitope—a portion of a molecule to which an antibody binds. This epitope mimicked a similar
epitope in the real gene.
In fact, Bannantine says, out of the seven amino acids that make up
the epitope in UP1, one amino acid was different from the real epitope
encoded by MAP1025, a gene that was annotated in the MAP genome.
With this new discovery, scientists not only found the real antibodybinding protein, but could now focus on the reason why the new antibody was so specific to MAP.
Solving the Mystery of Specificity
A sequence analysis showed that the MAP1025 gene was present in the
non-MAP strains, which did not explain why the antibody was specific
to M. paratuberculosis and not to environmental contaminants. To find
the answer, Bannantine sequenced MAP1025 from several paratuberculosis and non-paratuberculosis strains.
He found a single nucleotide change in the sequence encoding the epitope. This change affected the first amino acid out of the seven that
make up the epitope, which is what created the specificity of M. paratuberculosis, Bannantine says.
Researchers can now accurately detect the Johne’s disease pathogen and
know for certain that it’s not a contaminant.
“We finally have a specific antibody to detect live mycobacteria in the
tissues or feces of cattle. This could never have been done before,” Bannantine says.
Scientists have received a patent for the new antibody and are moving
forward to develop diagnostic tests that will confirm the presence of the
Johne’s disease bacterium.
“We can now use this antibody to enrich the bacterium when it is present in low concentrations, such as in unpasteurized milk samples,” Bannantine says. “Improved testing and diagnostics is really the big benefit
of this antibody.”
By Sandra Avant, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
~TheCattleSite
“When we expressed the UP1 proteinin E. coli, it reacted with the
Poll Shows Strong Support for Country of Origin Labeling
Survey results, released by the Consumer Federation of America, show
that a large majority of Americans continue to strongly support mandatory country of origin labelling for fresh meat
The Survey also revealed that the majority also strongly favour requiring meat to be labelled with even more specific information about
where the animals were born, raised and processed.
Ninety per cent (90 per cent) of a representative sample of 1000 adult
Americans favoured, either strongly or somewhat, requiring food sellers to indicate on the package label the country of origin of fresh meat
they sell.
This high level of support for country of origin labelling is similar to
the results of previous polling on the issue.
Eighty-seven per cent (87 per cent) of adults favoured, either strongly
or somewhat, requiring food sellers to indicate on the package label the
country or countries in which animals were born, raised and processed.
Similarly, ninety per cent (90 per cent) of adults favoured, either
strongly or somewhat, requiring food sellers to indicate on the package
label the country or countries in which animals were born and raised
and the fact that the meat was processed in the US.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed changing its
country of origin regulations to provide consumers with this additional
information in response to a World Trade Organization (WTO) challenge by Canada and Mexico.
“These results demonstrate that U.S. consumers continue to strongly
support country of origin labeling and want even more detailed information about where their meat comes from,” said Chris Waldrop, Director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of America.
“We urge the Administration to finalize its proposal and provide consumers with this additional information. The WTO should accept USDA’s changes to the COOL regulations as satisfactory.”
The survey results have been welcomed by the US National Farmers’
Union.
“The survey results are a further indication of what we have known for
some time: Consumers overwhelmingly want to know more about the
origins of their food, and farmers and ranchers want to provide this
information,” said NFU President Roger Johnson.
”These findings, coupled with the recent withdrawal of two shortsighted amendments to the Senate and House’s respective farm bills
that would have negatively impacted Country-of-Origin Labelling, are
promising indications that country-of-origin labelling is vitally important and here to stay.”
Study Reveals Poor Storage Conditions for Health Products
In a case study involving beef producers in Idaho, researchers found
less-than-ideal refrigeration conditions for animal health products at
retailers and on-farm.
Idaho beef producers and animal health product retailers participated
in a study to gather data on the handling and management of animal
health products.
In the study, published in the latest issue of the journal, Professional
Animal Scientist, by B. Glaze of the University of Idaho and others,
data loggers were placed in 176 refrigerators (129 belonging to producers and 47 with retailers), recording temperatures in 10-minute intervals for a minimum of 48 hours.
The approximate age, type and location of the producers’ refrigerators
were recorded, along with where the products were stored in the refrigerator. An inventory of each producers’ refrigerator was taken, with
expired and opened products recorded.
Almost one-third (31 per cent) of the producers’ refrigerators maintained the recommended temperature range of 2 to 7°C for more than
95 per cent of the time and one-third (33.3 per cent) of the producers’
refrigerators maintained the recommended temperature range less than
five per cent of the time.
Thirty-four per cent of the retailers’ refrigerators were within the recommended temperature range for more than 95 per cent of the time
and 17.0 per cent were in the range less than five per cent of the time.
In addition to temperature readings and refrigerator characteristics being documented, surveys of producers and retailers were also conducted. The producer surveys showed 93.8 per cent of producers used the
neck area of beef cattle for injections, 87.6 per cent mixed modified-live
vaccines as needed and protected them from sunlight, whereas 93.8 per
cent kept vaccines in a cooler.
The retailer surveys showed 44.0 per cent had thermometers to monitor
refrigerator temperatures, and 41.0 per cent did not monitor their refrigerators. Sixty per cent of retailers trained their employees to handle
animal health products and 67.0 per cent trained their employees to
answer questions about animal health products.
Reference
Fife T.E., J.B. Glaze Jr., K.S. Jensen, N. Rimbey, S.L. Kane, S.D. Baker,
J. Church, S.J. Ette, D. Gunn, G. Keetch, S. Nash, S. Williams and R.L.
Ruiz. 2013. Case Study: Handling and management of animal health
products by Idaho producers and retailers. Professional Animal Scientist
29(3):313-320.
Overcoming Breeding Challenges on Fescue Pastures
A large number of Kentucky beef producers have spring-calving cow
herds that graze fescue pastures.
The biggest concern with these pastures is their high endophyte levels.
High endophyte levels can cause a multitude of problems in cattle, including reduced reproduction performance.
“Getting a high percentage of cows bred in May, June and July to calve
in March, April and May can be a challenge,” said Roy Burris, beef extension specialist for the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
Research and Extension Center in Princeton. “I personally prefer fall
calving for that reason, but I also believe that we can have successful
breeding performance in the spring.”
Burris believes there are some keys to getting a high percentage of cows
pregnant for a spring-calving season.
“The most general problem, in my opinion, is that the winter feeding
program isn’t adequate to support required body condition for early
rebreeding,” he said.
Cows should enter the breeding season in good body condition, Body
Condition Score 5, which doesn’t always result from many producers’
winter feeding programs.
“It seems that we sometimes try to ‘rough ‘em’ through the winter and
hope that spring grass will straighten them out,” he said. “That is a sure
formula for delayed breeding or open cows.”
Burris said spring-calving cows really need to conceive early in the breeding season, preferably before late June, for best results. The UKREC
conducted a trial several years ago where they separated similar cows
into three breeding periods of 45 days each on high-endophyte fescue.
Cows exposed to bulls from June 19 to Aug. 4 had a pregnancy rate of
only 59 percent. The average maximum daily temperature reaches 90
degrees Fahrenheit by June 20 at the UKREC. The elevated temperature, coupled with the endophyte present in most fescue pastures, likely
contributed to that decreased performance.
“We have also measured the alkaloid levels in high-endophyte fescue
at this location,” Burris said. “The primary culprit in toxicity of highendophyte pastures seems to be ergovaline. After our July 10 measurement, the ergovaline levels dramatically increased. So this toxicity,
coupled with high temperatures, appears to mean that breeding will not
occur at acceptable rates in July, August and September. Therefore, we
believe cows need to be pregnant by the end of June for best results.”
He explained that ergovaline levels differed greatly by pasture and that
could make it possible to avoid the “hot” pastures, those with higher
endophyte levels, during the summer months, especially during breeding and heat stress.
There are several other keys to a successful breeding season. Obviously,
fertile bulls are extremely important and breeding soundness evaluations are essential. Producers should supply a complete mineral supplement on a year-round basis. If producers use artificial insemination,
they will need to manage the details of artificial insemination and estrous synchronization protocols.
“In the short run, don’t let cows lose body condition as the breeding
season nears,” Burris emphasized. “Lush, watery grass might not support regaining condition after calving, peak milk production and rapid
rebreeding. Do whatever it takes to get ‘em bred and bred early.”
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Fuel Costs to Drop this Summer
Consumers should enjoy a summer driving season without unusually
high gasoline prices and probably lower than they were last summer,
says a Purdue University agricultural economist.
Wally Tyner , specialist in energy economics and policy, expects prices
in the Midwest to be between $3.50 and $3.90 a gallon, with prices in
the South and Southeast in the range of $3.15 to $3.55.
“That certainly could change if something unforeseen happens, but I
don’t expect prices over $4, except on the West Coast,” he said.
Gas prices usually climb in the summer as motorists log more driving
miles for vacations and weekend getaways, and fill their tanks with more
expensive summer blend fuels. Those factors are being canceled out by
increased oil production by non-Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries nations and the move to cars with greater fuel efficiency.
As a result, crude oil prices are projected to be slightly lower this summer than in 2012, Mr Tyner said.
“We’re increasing production much faster now, and production is growing faster than consumption for the first time since 2009,” Mr Tyner
said. “That means OPEC countries - particularly Saudi Arabia - have
spare capacity and aren’t producing as much.”
North America is leading the oil boom. Technology to produce oil from
shale rock and bituminous sands has rejuvenated the U.S. and Canadian oil industries. The U.S. Department of the Interior estimates that
7.4 billion barrels of oil could be extracted from the Dakotas and Montana alone.
Another 177 billion barrels of oil are available in Canada’s oil sands,
according to the World Energy Council.
Mr Tyner expects little change in the price of renewable fuels this summer. Although ethanol production was down earlier because of high
corn prices, plenty of ethanol should be available for blending with
gasoline, Mr Tyner said. The same goes for biodiesel, he added.
Two wild cards that temporarily could push gas prices higher are refinery outages and world events. Rapid spikes in Midwest gas prices the
past few months have occurred when refining facilities in Indiana and
Illinois experienced breakdowns.
“The biggest refinery in this area is in Whiting, Ind.,” Mr Tyner said.
“They have four refining streams, and if one of those four goes out we
see a shortage of supply in this area and prices spike. As soon as that
stream comes back online the prices come back down again.”
Crude oil prices and, therefore, gas prices also rise and fall with the
world economy. If the economic growth outlook improves and demand
climbs this summer, prices could follow, Mr Tyner said.
One thing is for certain: There’s no certainty when it comes to oil and
gasoline markets.
“This year nothing has been typical,” Mr Tyner said. “Normally prices
go down in January but instead went up. Normally they go up in March
but instead went down.”
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance Announces Its Next Food Dialogue
Source: U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance
Chicago’s Kendall College of Culinary Arts is the site for The Food
Dialogues: Chicago taking place on June 19. This event, hosted by the
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), features a panel discussion
entitled, “Transparency & Food: Our responsibility to make information available to today’s consumer.”
Panelists will be announced over the next several days and will include
representatives from the retail and foodservice industry as well as farmers and ranchers.
farmers, ranchers, industry experts, pundits, media and consumers together for dynamic panel discussions on some of today’s most pressing
topics related to food and food production.
To watch content from past events, visit www.fooddialogues.com.
About U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance
WHEN: Wednesday, June 19, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. CDT
USFRA consists of nearly 80 farmer- and rancher led organizations and
agricultural partners representing virtually all aspects of agriculture
working to engage in dialogues with consumers who have questions
about how today’s food is grown and raised. USFRA is committed to
continual improvement and supporting U.S. farmers and ranchers efforts to increase confidence and trust in today’s agriculture. For more
information visit www.fooddialogues.com.
Kendall College School of Culinary Arts
900 N. North Branch St, Chicago, IL 60642
(This event will also stream live from www.fooddialogues.com)
Follow USFRA on Twitter @USFRA using #FoodD or on its Facebook
page, www.facebook.com/usfarmersandranchers.
~AgriMarketing
More information, including registration go to www.fooddialogues.com
The Food Dialogues signature events are designed to bring together
Federal Government to Increase Rural Broadband Service
Agri-Pulse reports:
A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcement made
late last week could hasten the development of rural broadband service.
That’s good news for the 18 million rural Americans currently without
access to broadband - though broadband advocacy groups note that the
federal agency still has a ways to go.
FCC released a public notice seeking comment on its rural broadband
incentive structures. Specifically, the agency is trying to find how to
best fund rural telecommunications providers serving customers who
forego traditional landlines in favor of cellphones and broadband service.
Currently, federal guidelines do not support standalone broadband service.
~AgriMarketing
AgriCapital Advises Farm Credit on Sale of Superior Livestock Auction to Nat’l Livestock Credit
Source: National Livestock Credit news release
National Livestock Credit is pleased to announce the purchase of Superior Livestock Auction, Inc. National Livestock and cattlemen from
several states have formed a limited partnership to acquire Superior.
National Livestock Credit is part of a family of livestock service companies formed in 1932 to improve the ability of producers to market
and finance livestock. When livestock producers were seeking more
competitive options, the National Livestock companies were formed to
improve the potential for profitability for those producers.
The corporate headquarters of National Livestock Credit is located in
the Oklahoma National Stockyards in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Superior Livestock Auction, Inc. was founded in 1987 and introduced
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Industry News - Continued from page 24.
satellite video marketing to the nation’s cattle industry. Superior has
grown to become the largest livestock auction in the United States,
marketing well over one million head of cattle annually.
Superior Livestock Auction, Inc. has offices located in Brush, Colorado
and Fort Worth, TX, with its auction facilities and Superior Productions’ offices located in The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic
District.
Jim Odle, co-founder and General Manager of Superior Livestock Auction, commented “I have had the privilege of meeting and getting to
know Robert York and Danny Jones from National, and I truly believe that National is the ideal ownership group for Superior Livestock
Auction. We share common goals and values and we look forward to
working with them as we move forward to continue our legacy in the
livestock marketing industry.”
Joe Lichtie, Vice President of Superior Livestock Auction noted, “This
is a perfect alliance of two industry leaders coming together. Superior
Livestock is thankful for the successful transition led by National and
Farm Credit West throughout the acquisition of Superior.
We couldn’t have asked for a better outcome for Superior Livestock,
our representatives, employees and most importantly our loyal customers. This venture has been a long time coming, and we look forward to
remaining the Nation’s leader in livestock marketing.”
Danny Jones, President of Superior Livestock Auction, commented
“The two companies share a common bond, a commitment to serve
the United States cattle industry with the best products and services
available. We believe that by joining forces, we can further serve the
industry.
opportunity to work with many of the representatives and employees of
Superior since we share many mutual customer relationships.
Superior Livestock Auction has become the industry leader in helping
both sellers and buyers of cattle reach their desired goals. Superior’s
innovative marketing system provides tremendous value to both sellers and buyers, not only through access to the nationwide market, but
also through efficiencies gained in reduced shipping costs, lower animal
stress, and better animal health.”
We have always viewed Superior as a company comprised of hard working people with the strongest integrity and we believe they work every
day to achieve higher profits for their buyers and sellers. We couldn’t be
more pleased to join forces.”
Robert York, President and CEO of National added, “We have admired
the business model of Superior for many years. We have often had the
The Passing of Billy Sol Estes
Agir-Pulse reports:
For more information, visit Superior Livestock Auction at http://www.
superiorlivestock.com/
~AgriMarketing
Billy Sol Estes, whose name became synonymous with defrauding
USDA programs, died May 14 at his home in DeCordova Bend, Texas.
He was 88.
Although he concocted his schemes during the Eisenhower Administration, the scandal broke during the Kennedy Administration and put
then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the late Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman in the hot seat as Congress and news media
investigated.
Estes served time in prison for what a Time cover story called “a welfarestate Ponzi,” selling non-existent fertilizer tanks to farmers and fraudulently arranging transfers of cotton program marketing allotments in
the 1950s. The scandal led several lower-level USDA workers to resign.
Estes’ schemes eventually collapsed, and in 1964 he was tried and convicted on charges related to fraudulent ammonia tank mortgages. He
was paroled in 1971 but later served four more years on other charges.
~AgriMarketing
Eco Agro Resources Launch
Eco Agro Resources is proud to announce its formation and launch
on May 1, 2013. Eco Agro Resources is an Agriculture and Chemical
Producer and marketer of the next generation of urease inhibitor and
patent pending flagship product, N-YieldTM.
David McKnight, CEO states “Eco Agro Resources is made up of 30
team members with over 100 years of agriculture and chemical experience. We have multiple lab and manufacturing locations with a home
base in High Point, NC. Our current chemical sales are projected to top
$50 million USD annually, while our global presence and patent pending technologies continue to expand.”
Ray Perkins President of Sales says, “Our flagship product, N-YieldTM
is an environmentally friendly nitrogen inhibitor solution that is used
to treat urea and UAN based fertilizers to improve the retention of
nitrogen content in soil. N-YieldTM can be used to coat either urea
granules or can be mixed with ammonium nitrate (UAN) solutions and
offers several advantages over the current brands available.”
Eco Agro ResourcesTM offers a strategic limited distribution business
model as well as co-branding opportunities. We are a previous active
ingredient supplier to leading urease inhibitor brands.
~AgNewsWire
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Advertiser’s Index
2H Brangus..........................................25
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Advanced Genetic Services, LLC...........26
Alleman Cattle Company........................3
AMS Genetics, LLC.......................15,BC
Bill Rainer Cattle Co..............................3
Briggs Ranches.............................IFC, 26
Buckner Polled Beefmaster....................25
Calyx Star Ranch..................................25
Cavender Ranches................................25
Champion Genetics..............................26
Corporron Acres.....................................5
Crochet Cattle......................................25
Dillard Land & Cattle..........................25
Doak Lambert Auctioneer.....................26
Doguet’s Diamond D Ranch.................25
Don Thomas & Sons.......................17,25
Dos Bros Ranches...................................5
Garrett Brangus....................................25
Garry Clem Brangus.............................25
Genex Cooperative, Inc........................26
Greenview Farms, Inc.............................3
Harris Riverbend Farm......................1,26
Harvey Ranch........................................3
Indian Hills Ranch...............................25
Isa Cattle Co., Inc................................25
J.D. Hudgins, Inc................................25
JLS International..................................25
Lake Majestik Farms.............................25
Lakin Oakley Auctioneer......................26
Larry Smith Livestock...........................26
Livestock Photography by Nancy..........26
M&W Cattle Service............................26
McCreary Farms...................................25
Nunley Bros. Ranches......................11,26
OvaGenix.............................................26
Pine Ridge Ranch.................................26
Quail Creek Brangus............................25
Robertson Livestock.............................26
Salacoa Valley Farms...............................9
Santa Gertrudis Breeders International..19
Santa Rosa Ranch.................................25
Skyhawk Brangus.................................25
TCR Genetics......................................26
Tommy Barnes Auctioneer....................26
Truitt Brangus Farms............................25
V8 Ranch.............................................25
Wendt Ranch.......................................26
Westall Ranches, LLC..........................25
Calendar
June
Please note that events/sales in bold have ads placed in this issue. Check them out!
1 Channarock Farms Mature Cowherd Dispersal Rockfield, KY
8 Carolinas Brahman Association Sale - Clemson, SC
22 Cottage Farm Beefmaster Southern Tradition XIII
Herd Reduction Sale - Jackson, TN
26-30 Bull’s Eye Ranch Internet Show Heifer Sale
28 MAS VIII - Wharton, TX
August
17 Southern Alliance BMG Sale - Cullman, AL
24 Southeastern BBA Convention Sale - Tunica, MS
September
7 Lasater Ranch Sale - Matheson, CO
9-10 V8 Ranch Power of Production Internet Sale
14 Southern Alliance BMG Sale - Falkville, AL
14 23rd Annual “Cadillac of Brangus” Sale - Madison,
MO
20 Nunley Brothers 12th Annual “One Ranch Raised”
- Sabinal, TX
21 Arkansas BBA Fall Sale - Conway, AR
21-22 The Elite Simmental/Simbrah Sale - Yoakum, TX
28 Live Oak BBA Fall Sale - Three Rivers, TX
October
3 Advancing the Breed III Sale - Lake Charles, LA
5 Isa Cattle Co. Performance Tested Bull Sale - San
Angelo, TX
5 J&T Farm First Production Sale - Savannah, TN
12 Ozark & Heart of America Fall Female Sale - Tulsa,
OK
12 Heart of Texas Simmental/Simbrah Association Sale
- Hearne, TX
18 10th Annual Santa Gertrudis Bull & Commercial
Heifer Sale - Bloomington, TX
19 Doguet’s Annual Production Sale - Poteet, TX
19 36th Annual Tri-Star Registered Santa Gertrudis
“Elite Cow” Sale - Bloomington, TX
19 Central Texas BBA Beef “On” Forage Performance
Bull Sale - Brenham TX
20 Southern Bull & Female Sale - Marianna, FL
25 Salacoa Valley Farms Bull & Female Sale Fairount, GA
26 44 Farms Sale - Cameron, TX
26 Carr & Others Fall Sale - Floresville, TX
26-27 Synergy VI Show & Sale - Giddings, TX
November
2 President’s Council Sale - Fort Worth, TX
2-3 GENETRUST at Chimney Rock - Concord, AR
9 Louisiana BBA Cowboy Classic Sale - Lake Charles, LA
9 Heart of Texas Beefmaster Sale - Groesbeck, TX
16 2013 World Series of Brangus Sale - Palo Pinto, TX
23 Miller Brangus Bull Sale - Waynesboro, TN
December
1 GENETRUST at Cavender Ranches - Jacksonville, TX
7 Lone Star BBA Sale - Sulphur Springs, TX
14 2nd Annual Brush Country Bull Sale - Campbellton, TX
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