February 2014

Transcription

February 2014

The Virginia
VOLUME 36 NUMBER 2
THE VIRGINIA CATTLEMAN–FEBRUARY 2014–PAGE 1
Cattleman
CIRCULATION 8,000
What’s Inside
FEBRUARY 2014
The Virginia Cattleman
P. O. Box 9
Daleville, VA 24083-0009
Non-Profit
Organization
U. S. Postage
PAID
Daleville VA 24083
Permit No. 8
Cattle Botulism In Virginia ........................................................................Page 7
Pricey Beef To Test Appetites .................................................................Page 17
VA Cattle Industry Convention
Harrisonburg, March 27-30, 2014................................................. Page 20 & 21
Official Publication of the Virginia Cattleman’s Association • PLEASE NOTIFY SENDER IF ADDRESS LABEL IS INCORRECT
PAGE 2–FEBRUARY 2014–THE VIRGINIA CATTLEMAN
Opportunities
What a difference a few weeks
and a new year make. In this
fast paced cattle market we are
living in now we have seen the
cutout and fed cattle set new high
water marks for price. Making a
profit is covering your expenses
and how well you do beyond
that is relative. Kind of like a
home run. It’s still a run when
it clears the fence but certainly
more exciting to talk about when
the ball travels 500 feet instead of
375. The folks working together
in the Abingdon Feeder Cattle
Association hit a 500 foot drive
on our first Tel O Auction this
year selling 21 Virginia Quality
Assured lots and easily surpassing a $1000 per head average.
The pressure just got ratcheted
up another notch. How long will
this last? That’s always a million
dollar question when you are
speculating of course and many
hope for that 500 foot home run
whenever they step up to bat
instead of planning to hit a 450
foot shot that favorable winds
may carry further. For the first
time in many years, all segments
of the cattle business from cowcalf to stocker/backgrounder to
feeder are expected to operate in
the black. That’s pretty significant when you consider the cost
of energy, cost of gain, the growing value of the dollar relative to
other foreign markets, an overall
tremendous variation in costs of
production at the farm level and
a political climate in Washington
that will likely see Congress have
to form a conference committee to
reach a bipartisan consensus as to
whether the groundhog saw its
shadow. What’s the key to a 450
shot? Market strategy. Feeder
cattle futures are also dwelling
in record high territory at $170
plus. No producer of feeder
cattle should not be considering
utilizing that market to protect
their profits at this point. Even
with a shaky grip on production
costs, nearly everyone in the business can make money selling 600
pound plus calves around $170.
Fortunately the opportunities
to buy into this price protection are simple and relatively
cheap whether that be utilizing
put options or Livestock Risk
Protection insurance. I am not a
broker and cannot give absolute
financial advice, but I can ask
that everyone look at trends and
seize the day. Take time to visit
with your Extension Agents, a
commodity broker and your Farm
Service Agency representatives to
explore risk protection. It’s hard
to imagine it will ever be cheaper
to secure price support in the
market than in the conditions we
have now.
During the week of January
13, 2014 we were pleased at VCA
to cooperate with Extension
and travel the state to host four
meetings covering topics ranging
from our industry situation and
outlook to managing challenges
associated with conception and
pregnancy. The meetings were
informative and well presented
by a variety of folks from Virginia Tech and Cattle Fax. We
are fortunate in our state to have
such knowledgeable and practical
Extension specialists. One of the
best outcomes from the meetings
was the obvious interest statewide in managing fescue issues.
Growth or reproduction, there is
tremendous concern and opportunity both for endophyte related
health issues and knowledge
needed to improve management
of cattle and fescue. We agree at
VCA that fescue is important and
there is relatively little we know
about endophyte toxicity actually
works. We understand there are
many symptoms of endophyte
toxicity but there is still much to
learn about the systemic action
of endophyte and where it can
be better managed. It’s a grass
that we certainly cannot live
without here in Virginia and we
at VCA will be heavily encouraging our Extension folks to delve
deeper into this subject. There
are tremendous capabilities at the
Southern Piedmont Agricultural
Research & Extension Center to
maintain a long term study of
fescue and beef cattle as well as
an ability to coordinate that research with application at similar
facilities at Glade Spring and in
the Shenandoah Valley.
Member benefits will be a growing area of emphasis for VCA in
the coming year as we develop
partnerships with affiliates and
academia. The meetings we had
in January across the state were a
first step in that direction to serve
our collective industry interests in
addition to marketing. We plan
to follow these meetings with
another event we feel will have
something for everyone. The Virginia Cattle Industry Convention
scheduled to take place March
27 – 30, 2014 at the Rockingham
County Fairgrounds will be such
an event. We are looking forward
to offering engaging educational
programs, giving members the
ability to participate in an important VCA business meeting and
give all producers the chance to
purchase quality Angus females
and bred commercial heifers
for the herd at home. We have
partnered with the Virginia Beef
Expo to begin a new tradition of
taking the best from that event
and the VCA annual meeting to
offer a collective event for the entire Virginia cattle industry. The
goal of this meeting is not only to
demonstrate that we are growing
our scope in Daleville but also to
provide a venue for our industry
producers and partners to gather
that highlights many things that
we collectively do well. There is
a glimpse of what’s to come in the
center section of this edition of
the Virginia Cattleman and there
will be much more in the March
paper as well as on our website.
I ask you to make plans to join us
at least one day and enjoy what
the Virginia beef cattle business
has to offer.
You have a
large stake in
what you do.
The last thing you want is a lender who
keeps grilling you for information about
your industry and your operation. You
need a lender who won’t grind your
business to a halt trying to make heads or
tails out of what you do. Farm Credit has
been financing rural America for nearly
100 years. Call us—we’re the experts.
Loans for: Livestock | Land | Farms | Equipment | Homes | Agribusinesses and More
800.919.FARM
FarmCredit.com
NMLS# 456965
TOTAL
Performance
KCF
Bennett
Absolute
Connealy
Trustmark
1
-
Connealy
Contrast
KCF
Bennett
Southside
KCF
Bennett
Stellar
->ÌÕÀ`>ÞÊUÊ£Ó\ääÊ
*,Ê£Ó]ÊÓä£{
LLF
Validation
,i`ÊÕÃiÊÕÊÛ>Õ>ÌÊ
iÌiÀ
+
KCF
Bennett
Revolution
X51
Rito 9M25
of Rita
5F56 Pred
Angus + Polled Herefords +
+ Gelbviehs + Balancers +
+ Baldies +
Featuring
KJ HVH 33N
Redeem
485T
EFBEEF
Foremost
U208
£ääÊÕÃ ÊÊÊÊnä
ÊÀi`Ê
and
KCF Bennett
Harland
X337
iÀV>ÊiviÀÃ
Angus Sale Bulls Average:
CE +10
CW +32
BW +0.2
MARB +.64
WW +60
REA +.60
YW +104
$W +41.06
MILK +28
$B +83.62
ANGUS SIRES:
KCF Bennett Absolute, Connealy Contrast,
KCF Bennett Southside, PA Power Tool 9108,
Connealy Right Answer 746, GAR Progress,
LLF Validation, Connealy Confidence 0100,
Rito 9M25
POLLED HEREFORD SIRES: Polled Hereford Sale Bulls Average:
KCF Bennett Revolution X51,
CED +3.4
REA +.54
Hyalite On Target 936, KCF Bennett Harland
MARB +.35
X337, MSU TCF Revolution 4R, HH Advance BW +2.4
8050U, EFBEEF Foremost U208, WW +65
BMI Index +$27
KJ HVH 33N Redeem 485T, YW +98
CHB Index +$36
Gelbvieh Sale Bulls Average:
SHF York 19H Y02
CE 11
Milk +30
GELBVIEH SIRES:
BW -0.1 Carcass Value +23.59
WW +79
YW +112
Feedlot Merit +39.14
KCF Bennett U271
BALANCER SIRES:
KCF Bennett U556, KCF Bennett W666,
KCF Bennett Southside, KCF Bennett Homestead,
KCF Bennett U271, KCF Bennett T297,
GAR New Design 5050, Connealy Contrast,
KCF Bennett Dynasty Y158, KCF Bennett Absolute
Balancer Sale Bulls Average:
CE 14
Milk +30
BW -1.6
Carcass Value +62.11
WW +68
Feedlot Merit +45.68
YW +114
KCF
Bennett
U556
KCF Bennett
Dynasty Y158
Catalog available upon request.
Serving the beef industry since 1944!
*AMES$"ENNETT
(434) 376-7299
0AUL3"ENNETT
(434) 941-8245
3COTT2"ENNETT
(434) 660-7268
*IM'"ENNETT
(434) 376-5760
"RIAN2"ENNETT
(434) 376-5309
$ALTON'"ENNETT
434) 664-7946
2ED(OUSE2OADs2ED(OUSE6IRGINIA
/FFICEs&AXsKNOLLCREST HUGHESNET
WWWKNOLLCRESTFARMCOM
The Virginia
Cattlemen’s Association
Affiliated with the
National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc.
P.O. Box 9
Daleville, Va 24083-0009
540/992-1009
www.vacattlemen.org
Steve Furrow ................................... President
Rocky Mount
Glenn Wheeler ..........................1st Vice Pres.
FEEDER CATTLE
Atkins
Jason Pratt .................................1st Vice Pres.
SEEDSTOCK
Atkins
Mike Henry ..............................1st Vice Pres.
INDUSTRY
Amelia
Gene Copenhaver............................ Treasurer
Meadowview
Alan Spivey ..................................... Past Pres.
Aroda
Jason Carter ........................... Exec. Secretary
Stuarts Draft
Butch Foster ....................................Fieldman
Bristol
Troy Lawson ....................................Fieldman
Churchville
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Region I
Glenn Wheeler, Atkins
Region II
Chris King, Wytheville
Region III
Barry Price, Narrows
Region IV
Forrest Ashby, Staunton
Region V
Rick Matthews, Browntown
Region VI
Steve Hopkins, Louisa
Tom Nixon, Orange
Region VII
Lin Jones, New Canton
Angus
Steve Furrow, Rocky Mount
Charolais
William Anderson, Altavista
Dairymen
Mark Sowers, Floyd
Hereford
Charles Williams, Fairfield
Simmental
Alan Spivey, Aroda
Markets
David Coleman, Amelia
Veterinarians
Dr. Bobby Franck, Montpelier
BCIA
Jason Pratt, Dublin
CattleWomen
Terri Doyle, Emporia
Cattle Feeders
Jerry Burner, Luray
Industry
Gene Copenhaver, Meadowview
County Cattlemen Assoc.
Mike Henry, Amelia
Brett Stratton, Appomattox
Ex Officio
Frank Graves
Bill Jones
VA/NCBA Director
Kevin Powell
The Virginia Cattleman
540/992-1011
540/992-4632 - FAX
published monthly by the
Virginia Cattlemen’s Association
Editor ................................ Jason Carter
[email protected]
Issued the first week of each month. Copy deadline the
15th of the previous month.
The Virginia Cattleman is sent to members of the Virginia
Cattlemen’s Association. Annual dues are $25/year or
participation in the Association’s Feeder Cattle marketing
Program. Complimentary copies are sent to various supporters of the Virginia Cattle Industry.
A Member of:
LPC
LIVESTOCK PUBLICATIONS COUNCIL
Despite All The New Selection Tools,
Calf Birth Weight Still Rules?
Burt Rutherford,
BEEF Magazine
Many years ago, when I was
what Earl Butz once described as a
lump of clay, ready to be molded, I
was a student worker with the cow
herd at the institution of higher
learning I was attending. Back
then, the folks who were trying to
mold all us lumps into something
they thought would be useful to
the beef industry were chasing
all the growth genetics they could
find. Bigger is better seemed to be
the mantra. And, within reason,
it is. However, back in those dark
ages, all we had to work with was
actual performance data—EPDs
were just coming on the scene and
a bull’s actual birth weight, 205day adjusted weight, and yearling
weight were the performance data
that ruled. As a result, calving
season became a “teachable moment” for both the molders and the
moldees. I can’t recall the numbers,
but I can vividly recall pulling a lot
of calves that year. And not just in
the heifers, although they were the
epicenter of the wreck—we pulled
plenty of calves from the mature
cows as well. Among the many
lessons we all learned was that
just because a bull had a light birth
weight didn’t necessarily mean he
was an easy-calving bull.
Fast forward more years than
I’m going to admit to. We’ve come
a long way in our understanding
of genetics and genetic interactions
in those years, and not only do we
have very solid EPDs to guide our
decisions, but a growing understanding of genomics. It was thus
with eyebrows raised high that
I looked at the results of a recent
survey that BEEF magazine did
of its readers. You’ll read a more
complete rundown of the survey
results in the February BEEF magazine, but the answers to one question caught my attention as they
sent me on a not-so-memorable
trip down memory lane. Here
are the top five responses when
we asked “Which of the following information do you require to
purchase a bull?”:
•Actual birthweight—72.9%
• Birthweight EPD—68.6%
•Calving Ease-Direct EPD—
58.5%
• Actual weaning weight—55.3%
• Weaning weight EPD—52.9%
What raised my eyebrows in this
data was the reliance on a bull’s
actual birth weight and weaning
weight in the decision-making
process of whether or not a buyer
raises a hand to bid on a bull.
Here’s why. “Of the genetic variation in calving ease, birth weight
only describes 47%,” says Bob
Weaber, Kansas State University
Extension cow-calf specialist and
one of a handful of my go-to guys
when I have a question on genetics, which is often. “So you leave
the other half on the table when
you just focus on birth weight. We
know birth weight genetics play
a role in calving ease, but birth
weight alone doesn’t describe all
the genetic variation in calving
ease. Other factors like calf shape
and muscularity play a role too.”
Weaber says it’s important to also
recognize that genetics don’t control all the variation in calving ease
or dystocia. Environmental factors
such as cow nutrition during gestation, among many others, play a
big role in a calf’s ability to express
its genetic potential. “The heritability for calving ease in Angus is 0.2,
which means 20% of the variation
in phenotype (or a calf’s actual
performance) is under additive
control; 80% is environmental,”
Weaber says. “Birthweight has a
heritability of 0.42 in Angus. So
about 42% is genetic control, 58% is
environmental.” In spite of the fact
that birth weight is more heritable
than calving ease, Weaber recommends that if you’re looking for
an easy-calving bull, focus on the
calving ease EPD. That’s because
it combines multiple traits, including the bull’s (or its sire’s) calving
ease score, among other things,
as well as its actual birth weight.
For cow-calf producers, calving
ease is the economically relevant
trait. Birth weight is an indicator
trait. Birth weight provides some
information on calving ease, but
birth weight alone doesn’t directly
generate revenue or incur costs.
“Calving difficulty or dystocia is
what gets you in your hip pocket,”
Weaber says.
The other consideration with
selecting for birth weight only
is that it has a fairly strong correlation with other growth traits,
Weaber says. Reducing the birth
weight may lead to decreased
performance at weaning and
yearling. Thus, he recommends
that if you’re selecting bulls to use
on first-calf heifers, look for bulls
with a calving ease EPD in the top
20% of the breed. In most breeds,
it is relatively easy to find calving
ease bulls with desirable levels of
growth; bulls that beat the genetic
antagonism between calving ease
and growth, he adds.
I understand why actual birth
weight and weaning weight are
attractive indicators. Those are
numbers you can wrap your brain
around. They mean something because they’re real-world. EPDs and
genomics, on the other hand, are
not numbers that intuitively make
sense without a deeper understanding of what they mean. But
in the highly complicated world
of genetics, focusing on a bull’s
actual performance data alone can
lead you into a wreck if you’re not
careful, as we learned those many
years ago.
Make Sure You’re Using Antibiotics In A Legal Manner
Mike Apley,
Kansas State University
If you’re putting a fluoroquinolone antibiotic into cattle for
anything other than respiratory
disease, you’re breaking the law.
This class of antibiotics includes
enrofloxacin (Baytril 100®) and
danofloxacin (Advocin™). Illegal
uses would include treatment of
diarrhea (scours) or ear infections.
These drugs were approved with
a prohibition of extralabel (EL)
use because of their importance
in human medicine, and the intent to limit their uses to only
those diseases where microbial
safety has been demonstrated. The
fluoroquinolone antibiotics are
only labeled to treat and control
respiratory disease in cattle (only
enrofloxacin for control, which
means metaphylaxis, or mass
medication on arrival), for which
this use has been proven safe and
effective. Any other use in cattle
is illegal.
There is another recent rule
regarding EL use in food animals.
The antibiotic ceftiofur is in the
third-generation cephalosporin
class. You know this drug by the
trade names Naxcel®, Excenel®
and Excede®, all of which contain
ceftiofur in different formulations.
This antibiotic has been proven
safe and effective for multiple label
indications. Recently, FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine prohibited certain EL uses of this antibiotic because of the importance
of this class of antibiotics in human
medicine. Ceftiofur may be used
for diseases other than specified
on the label under the supervision
of a veterinarian, but in no cases
may the label directions for administration be altered (dose, route,
duration, frequency). Therefore,
injecting Excede subcutaneously
in the neck is illegal; it is labeled
only for injection in the middle
third or at the base of the ear. If
Excede is injected anywhere else,
the withdrawal time is so long that
there’s a chance the carcass could
be pulled and tanked — with the
client receiving zero for a $1,500
steer. There’s been lively debate
about the scientific justification
for the EL prohibitions for both of
these drug classes. Regardless of
your thoughts on this issue, these
are the regulations, and the ability
to limit uses of these antibiotics
through label specifications and
EL prohibitions is the reason our
industry still has some of our antibiotics. Just as important, it’s the
reason we may get new ones in the
future. Through my observations
of food animal veterinarians and
producers over the years, there
are some characteristics I’ve noted
among those striving to do things
WRA Vindicator
BW: -1.1 WW: +54 YW: +102 Milk: +35
right. These people understand
that:
• Their success, and that of their
colleagues and neighbors, depends
on the success of the industry as a
whole.
• This success is understood to
encompass a long-term horizon,
including future generations.
Continued on Page 38
WRA Walker
BW: -.2 WW: +72 YW: +129 Milk: +31
Apex Windy 078
BW: +3.9 WW: +72 YW: +110 Milk: +41
Cole Creek Cedar Ridge 1V
Benfield Substance
BW: -1.0 WW: +45 YW: +80 Milk: +38
BW: +1.7 WW: +63 YW: +104 Milk: +31
Benfield Reality
WRA Mirror Image T10
18th Annual Bull Sale
Saturday
BW: +.3 WW: +63 YW: +110 Milk: +28
March 15, 2014, 1pm
Rockingham Co. Fairgrounds Harrisonburg, VA
“Genetics to Build Efficient Cow Herds”
BW: -.6 WW: +54 YW: +92 Milk: +42
Our 2014 sale is highlighted by a powerful and
impressive set of ET maternal brothers to the AI
sires produced in our programs, Benfield
Substance, WRA Vindicator, Benfield Reality and
WRA Walker. These ET bulls are sired by Apex
Windy 078, Final Answer, Cedar Ridge and Regis.
Numerous other herd sire prospects will sell as
well.
For your free sale book
and DVD video preview
of the sale offering,
please contact:
As America needs to re-build cow numbers, we know
that profitable cow herds are built with maternal
genetics and not terminal high $beef genetics. We
have never sacrificed maternal efficiency and functional traits in our breeding programs. Our low input
programs have produced a group of fertile, moderate
framed, easy fleshing bulls with calving ease and true
muscle. The kind needed to build cow herds!
White Ridge Angus
Bobby Grove
(540) 850-0266
Somerville, VA
[email protected]
Benfield Angus, Deerfield, VA
Don & Juliana Benner
(540) 939-4608
[email protected]
www.benfieldangus.com
20th Annual
PRODUCTION SALE
Noon s3ATURDAYs-ARCH
!TTHEFARMs'RETNA6!
$!,4/.32)4!
2)4!0/&-02/4%'%DDF
'!2#/-0,%4%
CED +2; BW +3.6; WW +66; YW +118; Milk +24; $B +123.93
3IRE2ITO1OF2ITA&'(-s$AM2ITA/OF2ITA-/"*
Selling one-half interest in Rita 298 who currently ranks number 16 for
MB and Number 61 for $B among non-parent females.
CED +2; BW +2.4; WW +60; YW +96; Milk +27; $B +112.41
3IRE'!2%',0ROTEGEs$AM2ITA-OF2ITA&(0RED
This member of the Dalton donor program offers one of the outstanding
tabulations to sell this spring and records a WR 1@111. Sells due
2/8/14 to AAR Ten X 7008 SA. A November 2012 daughter by Rito 9Q13
5F56 GHM also sells.
CED +5; BW +2.7; WW +48; YW +92; Milk +37; $B +100.69
3IRE3UMMITCREST#OMPLETE0s$AM'!20REDESTINED
Complete 141 posts ultrasound ratios IMF 106 and REA 105. Her dam,
a donor at Bricton Farm, is a flush sister to GAR Progress and records
a WR 2@109, aYR 2@102, an IMF 17@108 and a REA 17@99. Bred
12/12/13 to AAR Ten X 7008 SA.
2)4!9/&2)4!&%-!AMF-NHF
2)6%2"%.$2)4!4AMF
+#&-)33/"*%#4)6%4DDF
CED +13; BW +.7; WW +56; YW +92; Milk +32; $B +80.07
3IRE2ITO%-!OF,%MBLAZONs$AM2ITA&OF)&$
A balanced-trait daughter of the top-selling female at the Wehrmann
Angus Dispersal and current Number 4 $B and number 6 REA proven
dam, Rita 5F56. Rita 9Y23 posts a BR 3@91 and a WR 3@100. Due
1/27/14 to AAR Ten X 7008 SA.
CED +7; BW +2.2; WW +57; YW +109; Milk +31; $B +81.86
3IRE#ONNEALY/NWARDs$AM'!2%84
This maternal sister to US Premium Beef records a WR 3@113, a YR
2@112 and a REA ratio 7@101. Also selling six embryo sired by GAR
Prophet and six embryos by Connealy Consensus 7229. Two sons
sell as Lots 69 and 70. Sells bred to AAR Ten X 7008 SA.
CED +7; BW +.9; WW +55; YW +101; Milk +29; $B +72.82
3IRE33/BJECTIVE44s$AM+#&-ISS#ENTENNIAL0
A proven and productive daughter of Objective bred in the Knoll Crest
Farms performance program. Miss Objective T371 records a BR 3@97,
a WR 3@104, a YR 3@103, IMF 3@101 and REA 3@102. Sells bred to
Baldridge Waylon W34.
Photo of the dam of Rita 298
Also selling a select
group of Bulls and
Commercial Females!
A. Douglas Dalton Jr. & Family
Dennis Eastin, Manager
1473 Daltons Farm Lane
Gretna, VA 24557
(434) 941-8757
[email protected]
www.daltonsonthesycamore.com
Visit our website
www.daltonsonthesycamore.com
for updated information and videos.
SALE
MANAGED
BY:
131 Robin Ct.
Howell, MI 48855
517-546-6374
www.cotton-associates.com
Cattle Botulism Kills Feeder Cattle In Virginia
Dr. Dee Whittier,
Extension Veterinarian, Cattle
College of Veterinary Medicine,
VA Tech
A recent outbreak of a devastating disease on a Southwest
Virginia stocker farm reminds us
that a disease called botulism can
be a real threat. In the stocker
outbreak of botulism 35 steers
that had been well managed and
were completely healthy before
the outbreak died!
The botulism bacteria is related
to the blackleg one. They both
produce a very potent poison,
frequently called a toxin. They
both grow in areas where there is
little oxygen. They both survive as
spores for many years in the soil.
Botulism has been reported to
kill many species of animals and
birds. Cases have been documented in people, chickens, horses,
wildlife, goats, sheep, reptiles
and fish.
For a long time it was believed
that the bacteria only grew in
protein rich substances, especially
meats and dead animals, and then
caused disease and death when
these are consumed. Now it is
understood that the bacteria can
grow in other foods and feedstuffs
under the right conditions, that it
may actually grow in the digestive tracts of animals after the
spores are consumed and that it
can grow in infected wounds on
rare occasions.
The botulism toxin causes paralysis of muscles and the clinical
signs and death are related to this
effect. Affected cattle are typically observed initially as being
depressed with heads and ears
down. However, they have normal temperatures and still try to
eat, different from the most common sick cattle presentation with
respiratory disease. As the disease
progresses it becomes obvious that
cattle cannot swallow well, become increasingly weak and then
go down. With high doses of the
toxin, animals may die in hours.
Cattle that have less toxin in their
system may be down for days
before their respiratory system
finally fails and death occurs.
Of course, finding the source of
the bacteria/toxin and removing
it as soon as possible is crucial
to reduce losses. Any source of
feed that could contain dead animals should be highly suspected.
Examples of ways to have dead
animals in feeds might be poisoned rodents or wildlife baled
into round bales. In Australia,
where botulism is quite common,
animals deficient in phosphorus
may chew on dead animals or
bones and ingest the toxins from
this source.
It would seem that, once the
offending feedstuff has been removed, cattle deaths would soon
cease. In fact, this is seldom the
case. Animal deaths continue
for up to two weeks after the
feedstuffs have been removed.
Whether toxins continue to leave
the rumen for this long period
of time or whether spores in the
digestive tract grow and produce
toxins inside the cattle is not
known.
It is now obvious that botulism
can grow in ensiled forages under
certain conditions. In several
instances ensiled cereal haylages
(baleage) has been the source of
the disease. It is not well understood why botulism bacteria
and toxins would be in these
feedstuffs. Is there something
different about cereal haylages
than grass hays? Is the ensiling
Continued on Page 8
SAVE ON SPRING TETANY PREVENTION AND CATTLEMAN’S MINERALS
SPRING TETANY PREVENTION
Spring Grass Tetany season is just around
the corner. Adding a feed or supplement
that is high in magnesium to your herd’s
diet can aid in preventing cattle loss.
125 Lb. 12% Hi-Mag Tub
200 Lb. 12% Hi-Mag Tub
33.3 Lb. Hi-Mag Block
33.3 Lb. 20% Hi-Mag Breeder Block
50 Lb. Cattleman’s Hi-Mag Mineral
Purchase any of these products between February 1 and
March 28, 2014 and receive special pricing. See your local
dealer for details.
SPECIAL FINANCING AVAILABLE
ON CATTLE FEED AND SUPPLIES
*Offer ends 5/31/14. Subject to approved credit on John Deere Financial multi-use account, a service of John
Deere Financial, f.s.b. Offer limited to qualifying products. After promotional period, interest charge will begin
to accrue at the regular John Deere Financial multi-use account rate. Available at participating merchants. For
Agricultural and Commercial use. Merchants use plan #22446 which is valid through 5/31/14.
MINERAL SAVINGS TIME
$1.25 off per bag
OR
$50 off per ton
on qualifying
Southern States®
Minerals
Mineral Savings Time discount good January 20 through March 7, 2014.
Questions or Comments: 888-221-8987
[email protected]
Botulism
Continued from Page 7
process different in baleage resulting in conditions that allow
the spores to grow and the toxin
to be produced? Is ensiling not
complete because haylage is too
wet or too dry? Is there more soil
contamination with soils containing spores on fields drilled with
cereal crops than established hay
fields? All of these questions
remain unanswered.
Treatments for botulism have
had limited success. Substances
that absorb toxins such as charcoals and absorptive clays may
have some value. Cattle that
are not severely affected might
benefit from supportive care including drenching with water and
electrolytes and gruels to provide
nutrition.
Vaccination is practiced quite
extensively in Australia to prevent the disease. No cattle botulism vaccine is available in the US.
There is, however, one USDA approved horse botulism vaccine.
A number of outbreaks of botulism in cattle have occurred in the
mid-Atlantic US. All reported
cases have occurred in cattle eating harvested feed rather than
grazing (different from Australia
reports). These have been seen in
dairy cows, beef cows and stocker/Backgrounding settings.
The outbreak in Southwest Virginia was associated with groups
of calves consuming triticale baleage. Eventually a test revealed
the presence of the toxin in these
ANGUS MEANS BUSINESS.
%VIPMEFPIFYWMRIWWTEVXRIVMWHMJ½GYPX
XSGSQIF]%XXLI%QIVMGER%RKYW
%WWSGMEXMSR®EXIEQSJWOMPPIH6IKMSREP
1EREKIVWGERKYMHI]SYVSTIVEXMSR
XS[EVHWYGGIWW
'SRXEGXER%WWSGMEXMSR6IKMSREP1EREKIV
XSPSGEXI%RKYWKIRIXMGWWIPIGXQEVOIXMRK
STXMSRWXEMPSVIHXS]SYVRIIHWERHXS
EGGIWW%WWSGMEXMSRTVSKVEQWERHWIVZMGIW
4YXXLIFYWMRIWWFVIIHXS[SVOJSV]SY
David Gazda,
Regional Manager
Chuck Grove,
Regional Manager
1985 Morton Rd.
Athens, GA 30605
706.296.7846
[email protected]
1919 Goshen Rd.
Forest,VA 24551
434.525.4687
[email protected]
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Kentucky
Ohio
Tennessee
3201 Frederick Ave. • St. Joseph, MO 64506
816.383.5100 • www.ANGUS.org
8SWYFWGVMFIXSXLIAngus JournalGEPP
;EXGLThe Angus ReportSR6*(8:1SRHE]QSVRMRKWEX'78
© 2013-2014 American Angus Association
bales. The bales were very well
made and prior testing indicated
good ensiling with pH’s in the 4
to 5 range. A very efficient rake
might have resulted in more soil
contamination than is desirable.
Does the risk of botulism sug-
gest that making baleage from
cereal crops (rye, wheat, barley,
triticale, etc.) should be curtailed?
Presently, the incidence of botulism has not been high enough
to justify this recommendation.
However, the disastrous nature
of an outbreak will give some
producers pause. The best recommendations that can currently be
made are to avoid contamination
of baleage with soils and to handle
baleage so as to encourage a rapid
ensiling process.
Botulism is an uncommon problem in cattle that usually has
disastrous outcomes. Producers
should watch cattle for depression
without a fever and act quickly
when suspicious signs are seen
in cattle.
NO
NO
NO
CONFINING
HANDLING
New delivery system for
effective control of horn flies
The first-of-its-kind delivery system, the VetGun, provides precise dosing
with the pull of a trigger. The topical insecticide, AiM-L VetCaps, can be
applied from as far away as 30 feet with no handling or stress to you or
your cattle, saving you time, money and labor. AgriLabs.com/VetGun
STRESS
Text “VETGUN” to 283342 to see the video.
developed by
www.smartvet.com
distributed by
www.agrilabs.com
Check with your animal health supplier for availability. AgriLabs and AiM-L are trademarks of Agri Laboratories Ltd.
VetGun is a trademark of SmartVet. © 2014 All rights reserved. AIML031050P327AVB
WITH SEASON-LONG CONTROL,
will look so good
LONGRANGE with 100 to 150
days of parasite control in a
single dose.1
A pasture full of thicker, slicker cattle is a beautiful
sight. Get the look with LONGRANGE – the first
extended-release injection that gives you 100 to 150
days of parasite control in a single dose.2
Break the parasite life cycle and see the performance
benefits all season.3,4 Ask your veterinarian for
prescription LONGRANGE.
TH E NE IG H BO R S WIL L STAR E.
Only LONGRANGE has the THERAPHASE™ formulation.2
40.0
PLASMA CONCENTRATION (ng/mL)
YOUR CATTLE
4.0
Therapeutic Concentration 1.0 ng/mL*
1.0
0.5
0.4
Therapeutic Concentration 0.5 ng/mL*
0
25
50
75
100
TIME POST-TREATMENT (DAYS)
125
150
Pharmacokinetic studies of LONGRANGE in cattle indicate that effective plasma
levels remain for an extended period of time (at least 100 days).2
*Plasma concentrations between 0.5 and 1.0 ng/mL would represent the minimal
drug level required for optimal nematocidal activity.
For more information, visit
Available in 500 mL, 250 mL and 50 mL bottles.
Administer subcutaneously at 1 mL/110 lbs.
theLONGRANGElook.com
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION: Do not treat within 48 days of slaughter. Not for use in female dairy cattle 20 months of age or older, including dry dairy cows, or in
veal calves. Post-injection site damage (e.g., granulomas, necrosis) can occur. These reactions have disappeared without treatment.
1
2
®LONGRANGE and the Cattle Head Logo are registered trademarks, and TMTHERAPHASE is a trademark, of Merial.
©2014 Merial Limited, Duluth, GA. All rights reserved. RUMIELR1213-F (01/14)
3
4
Dependent upon parasite species, as referenced in FOI summary and LONGRANGE product label.
LONGRANGE product label.
Morley FH, Donald AD. Farm management and systems of helminth control. Vet Parasitol. 1980;6:105-134.
Brunsdon RV. Principles of helminth control. Vet Parasitol. 1980;6:185-215.
Beef Buzz
Virginia Beef
Industry Council
Launches New
Website
The new VBIC website will be
launched on February 10th. The
web re-design has been in the
works since late last summer. The
NCBA web design team has done
a great job of meeting our website
needs for the various audiences
that will be visiting the page:
producers, consumers, educators,
youth, retail, and foodservice to
name a few.
New features to the site include
a recipe search engine, weekly
“Beef Bits” updates, and a page
about the history and significance
of the beef industry in Virginia.
Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about various beef
choices, meal-planning, and nutritional information. They will
also be able to submit recipes for a
chance to be featured on the home
page & social media.
The Cattlemen’s Corner page
will continue to provide Checkoff
forms, in addition to new links
& information regarding BQA
and MBA (Masters of Beef Advocacy) programs. Each month
VBIC hopes to feature a beef producer with an article and/or short
video of their operation and the
significance of raising consumer’s
favorite protein.
The Website Launch Party will
begin with the start of the page on
February 10th and run through
February 28th. This promotion
will focus on a “Virginia is for
Beef Lovers” theme to tie in with
Valentine’s Day and heart health.
The BOLD diet will be featured
as a way for consumers to lower
cholesterol with a diet of lean beef.
Through events and social media,
VBIC will encourage people to
visit the page and take a brief survey to be entered for a beefy grand
prize giveaway. This will increase
traffic to the site and create awareness about resources available
from the Virginia Beef Industry
Council, thus inspiring beef sales
across Virginia. You may visit the
website at www.vabeef.org.
Beef Promotion
Update
A Monthly report on your
Checkoff Dollars at work
from the Virginia Beef
Industry Council
February 2014
Beef! It’s What’s For Dinner!®
www.vabeef.org
Celebrate Heart
Health Month
With Beef
Anne Jones, Director of
Industry Communications
February is Heart Health Month
and the Virginia Beef Industry
Council (VBIC) encourages everyone to celebrate by enjoying
a mouth-watering steak. Yes, it’s
true – lean beef can be a delicious
part of a heart-healthy diet. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular diseases,
including stroke, are the No. 1
cause of death in the United States.
With such staggering statistics,
it’s more important than ever for
Americans to understand how to
make informed dietary choices
while still enjoying the foods they
love – such as lean beef.
Lean Beef is heart-healthy because it:
1. Is A Nutritional Powerhouse:
On average, one 3-ounce serving
The prototype for Virginia Beef Industry Council’s newly re-designed webpage, www.vabeef.org.
The Website Launch Party will begin on February 10th and run until February 28th.
Virginia Beef Council • P.O. Box 9 • Daleville, VA 24083 • 540.992.1992
7th Annual Spring
Production Sale
Saturday • March 8, 2014 • Noon
Gaffney, South Carolina
GCC LS Masterlock 833T
SAV Final Answer 0035
Vin-Mar O'Reilly Factor
Duff New Edition 6108
Duff Stimulus 856
Offspring From These Great Females Sell!
Stucky Eisa Erica 7429
SAR Rachel 4101
Selling More Than 100 Head!
Service-Age Calving-Ease Bulls
Service-Age Growth/lbs Bulls
Commercial Angus Females
IW 407 2031 of Gridmaker
OCC Dixie Erica 743L
Bill Sarratt – Owner
Cody Bright – Manager
845 Boiling Springs Hwy
Gaffney, SC 29341
864/ 580-9005
Cody 864/ 706-0697
For your free reference sale booklet, contact anyone in the office of the Sale Managers, TOM BURKE/KURT SCHAFF/JEREMY HAAG, AMERICAN ANGUS HALL OF FAME at the
WORLD ANGUS HEADQUARTERS, Box 660, Smithville, MO 64089-0660. Phone (816) 532-0811. Fax (816) 532-0851. E-mail: [email protected] • www.angushall.com
Value Is 2014 Buzzword
A new calendar year may have
arrived, but value is still on the
minds of those who produce,
purvey and purchase beef. On the
production side, tight cattle supplies and continued strong export
demand led the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) to recently
reduce its projection of total redmeat production for 2014 and
estimate that beef production will
remain about the same as 2013, a
year that saw record beef prices at
the midyear point. “We have the
lowest total U.S. cattle herd since
the early 1950s, and will have to
reach further inside the fed-cattle
supply to get grind for hamburger.
It will be a slow, long rebuilding
process, so therefore we’ll have
very tight supplies,” notes John
Ginzel, livestock and meat analyst with the Chicago-based Linn
Group, explaining that higher prices will accordingly come into play
in 2014 and likely beyond.Mike
Miller, SVP for global marketing
and research for the Centennial,
Colo.-based National Cattlemen’s
Beef Association (NCBA), says the
nature of the industry means that
relief is already on its way, even if
it isn’t immediately apparent. “In
order to grow, we have to shrink a
bit more. We’re working through
that process, and we have a lot of
signals that the producers are beginning that process,” he explains,
adding that the supply situation
should ease noticeably within 18
months to two years. Concurrently, while there have been glimmers of good news in the housing
market, the stock market and a
budget deal in Congress to avert
an-other government shutdown,
the U.S. Commerce Department
reported in late 2013 that overall
consumer spending is hovering
around a relatively anemic growth
rate of 1.5 percent. In a Reuters
poll released in mid-December
2013, the country’s top economists
predict that the U.S. economy will
grow 2.6 percent during the 2014
calendar year .Even with some
welcome news in both supply and
demand — including lower feed
prices, a slow rebuilding of the
beef supply, and higher consumer
confdence — value remains a
top-of-mind issue and a driver
of purchase intent. In addition
to looking at other proteins like
chicken and pork, many shoppers
are browsing the meat case for
diferent beef choices. “People are
buying less expensive cuts of the
animal for affordability,” observes
Burt Flickinger, retail analyst at
the Strategic Resource Group, in
New York.
To Flickinger’s point, ongoing
interest in, or concern about, value
has translated to behavior at the
meat case. According to a consumer research study published in 2013
and funded by the Beef Checkof,
lower-priced proteins like chicken
breast and ground beef are the
most frequently consumed cuts
of meat. The study found that
nearly seven in 10 respondents eat
chicken (72 percent) and ground
beef (67 percent) at least once a
week. The study’s other fndings
underscore the popularity of
ground beef: 86 percent of respon-
dents report eating ground beef
for weeknight dinners. Ground
beef tends to be purchased in fresh
form, with 75 percent of survey
participants saying they prefer to
buy fresh versus frozen ground
beef. In addition, many shoppers
(56 percent) report buying ground
beef in bulk form, some of which
Buzzword
they can freeze at home for later
use. Even within the ground beef
subcategory, value is on the minds
of consumers, at least in terms of
purchase behavior. According to
research published by NCBA, sales
are highest of value-priced beef in
the more affordable 70 percent to
77 percent lean segment. Industry analysts say ground beef is a
longtime favorite in any economy,
but note that the high beef prices
in the marketplace in the past year
have made it even more of a staple.
“Ground beef is still a leader, because of its versatility and the fact
that there are price considerations
to make when feeding a family,”
remarks Gary Morrison, market
reporter for the meat industry publication Urner Barry’s Yellow Sheet,
based in Bayville, N.J.Flickinger
agrees. “People are moving more to
grinds,” he observes, adding that
the ground beef category is also
affected by general supply-and-demand factors. “Before there was a
drought and prices started moving
higher, people would trade up to
ground sirloin, but now we’re seeing trades from ground sirloin to
ground round and ground chuck.
”At the same time, though, there’s
burgeoning demand for leaner
ground beef. The Checkoff funded
study, for example, shows that the
third-highest sales of ground beef
come from the 90 percent to 95 percent lean subcategory. “Most of the
trends we’ve seen over the last few
years are toward leaner varieties of
ground beef,” Miller notes. As interest in lean beef grows at a time of
tight supplies, lean finely textured
beef (LFTB) is an option to provide
consumers with lean beef that’s
affordable and available. “The
inclusion of that product probably
enhanced the value proposition
for most retailers,” adds Miller.
On the Cutting Edge of Beef Value
In addition to ground beef, beef
producers and retailers are delivering value to consumers through
other beef products. Like ground
beef, some of those beef cuts
have long been popular among
shoppers for their value-related
attributes. For example, according
to the Checkoff funded study on
beef consumption, sirloin and top
round steaks are eaten two to three
times a month, similar to chicken
tenders, chicken thighs and rotisserie chicken, whereas higher-end
cuts like ribeye and tenderloin are
consumed about once a month. In
recent years, the beef industry and
processors have responded with
new value cuts. Nearly four years
ago, NCBA’s Beef Innovations
Group introduced new cuts from
the beef round to help processors
and retailers maximize yield and
add versatility with cuts of lean
steaks and roasts like the Round
Petite Tender, San Antonio Steak
and Santa Fe Cut, among others.
Additional more recent concepts for
main meals include beef tenders (3ounce strips of tender beef), dashin-the-pan steaks (thinly cut steaks
that cook quickly), and a boneless
beef filet (a thin, lean and tender
beef chuck akin to a boneless skinless chicken breast.)Miller says the
industry refers to underused cuts
as “opportunity cuts” and notes
that such products represent a
point of differentiation for grocers.
“Progressive retailers are always
looking for that opportunity to create value. And because we have so
many different cuts and varieties,
there are always new opportunities
to present to retailers,” he remarks.
As 2014 begins, increasing beefs
value proposition remains a focus
for many in the gate-to-plate chain.
So is determining what, exactly,
value is for today’s shopper. “Value
is made up of a lot of different
things. Some consumers focus on
one aspect of it, and others focus
on the value balance,” says Miller
of simultaneous consumer interest in price, convenience, ease of
use and taste. “As we work on the
entirety of beef, we work to make
sure we are thinking of all of those
aspects.
Cold Temps Slow
Livestock Harvest
Extreme cold temperatures
impacted livestock movements
throughout the country in early
January. USDA’s estimated daily
slaughter for cattle was only
110,000 head, down 20,000 (about
15%) from the first week of the
year and 15,000 from 2013. Hog
slaughter was impacted even more
with the daily estimate coming in
at 323,000, 116,000 or 26% lower
than week one and 105,000 lower
than one year earlier. The difference in impact is primarily due
to geography: A larger numbers
and share of hog slaughter plants
are located in the Corn Belt where
temperatures were double digits
below zero for much of Monday.
We know of only one hog plant that
was closed on Monday but many
operated on reduced schedules
due to livestock availability. The
cold will not have much impact
on hog performance as a very high
percentage of growing pigs are in
climate-controlled buildings. The
extreme cold would have a larger
impact on cattle performance simply due to their being outside but
very cold and dry is far better, in
most cases, than cold and wet.
Is Your Operation Business First Or Family First?
Heather Hamilton-Maude
‘I want you all to make a decision. You have to decide: Do you
want to be a family-first business,
or a business-first family?” says
family business consultant and
farmer Jolene Brown. Brown has
consulted with more than 400
farm and ranch families, helping
them create, protect, fix and/or
transition their family businesses.
She provides insight into the
most common mistakes families
make, and solid suggestions for
improvement and success.
“Ninety percent of people are
a family-first business,” she says.
This concept is characterized by
such comments as:
• I think there’s a will, but I’m
not sure.
• The kids all got along fine
until they got married.
• We just operate based on tradition and assumption.
• We were lucky — and in the
right place at the right time.
“We need more than luck when
it comes to family business assets.
If you want to be a family-first
business, that’s OK, but the business better be a hobby,” she says.
However, for those looking to
build a legacy that will support
more than one family along the
way, she highly encourages choosing to be a business-first family.
So what is ‘business-first’?
Brown says a business-first
family doesn’t demean the family,
or mean that the business is more
important than the family. Rather
it indicates that members honor
the family so much, that they
work to get the business right.
“Just because you were born together doesn’t mean you should
work together. Acceptance in a
family is unconditional. Acceptance in a business is conditional
and not a birthright,” Brown
says. She notes that if a person is
angry, addicted, arrogant, lazy, or
can’t seem to hold a job anywhere
else, he or she shouldn’t be hired
into the family business, either.
“Another important question that
must be answered by the senior
generation is, ‘Do they really want
the business to continue?’ If they
do, then they’ve just agreed to
replace themselves.”
She advises that everyone in
the operation should start in the
business as labor, and from there
move into management and then
leadership. Then, at the pinnacle
of the process, the leader becomes
labor once again. “This does not
mean the next generation wants
to turn you out to pasture. This
means you have trained them so
well that you now trust them to
lead, and you give them your support. You’ll always be the mentor
and wise master with experience
to share.”
However, she warns against
starting this process with the
mindset of needing cheap labor,
or with the dream of bringing
the kids back home. Rather, she
explains, at the time the kids are
added to the operation, a concrete
plan resulting from discussion of
compensation that is fair to everyone, current and future personal
and business goals, and future
transitions and expectations,
should be discussed and implemented. Brown further notes that
money certainly does matter. In
addition to ensuring the business
is financially viable and providing
fair compensation to those joining
the business, it’s also critical for
the senior generation to solidify
their financial security. “You have
to take care of yourself. Your kids
don’t have to start where you are
C O T T O N W O O D
Greg W. Keeler
(formerly Kline Commercial Realty)
o. 540.437.3650
c. 540.478.5232
h. 540.886.3727
[email protected]
1954 Evelyn Byrd Avenue • Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Cottonwood.com
Commercial
Specializing in
marketing farms in the
Shenandoah Valley
and Central Virginia.
Whether you are
buying or selling, give
me a call. I can assist
you with selling your
farm or help you
locate the property
you are looking for.
today — after all, you didn’t. But
neither can they start where you
started,” Brown says. At the time
of a person’s retirement, she says
financial advisers suggest a minimum of 50% of income be derived
from sources other than the family
business. “If you don’t have that
in place, you’ll micromanage the
next generation to death because
they’re dinking with your secu-
rity. And if they screw up, you
won’t have anything to live on.
You want the next generation to
take risks on money they can afford to lose,” she notes.
If the business owners and leaders agree that additional family
members, namely the next generation, can and should be incorporated from a financial perspecContinued on Page 16
SMITH REASOR,
AUCTIONEER
REASOR SIMMENTALS
276-620-3123
[email protected]
“Upcoming Auctions”
2/22 VA Tech Surplus Property Auction- Blacksburg
3/29 G&E Premium Assured Heifer Sale- Gretna
AMS Changes Yields To Compute Beef Cutout Values
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing
Service changed this week the cut
yields that it uses to compute its
estimates of the beef cutout values.
For those who may not be familiar
with a “cutout” value, it represents
the weighted average of all of the
prices of the various wholesale
beef cuts (loin, rib, chuck, round,
trimmings, etc.) where the weightings are the portion of the carcass
(ie. yield) of each particular cut.
So, changing the yields can change
the cutout value even if the prices
of all of the components stay constant. This change will add about
$2/cwt to both the Choice and
Select grade cutout values. We
Business Or Family
tive, Brown suggests measuring
each individual being considered
against these six questions:
1. Number one is, if you want
to come back to the farm or ranch
and work, what do you bring to
the business? Are you a great mechanic, herdsman or geneticist?
Are you energetic and worthy?
2. Does the business need those
attributes?
3. What does it cost the business
to hire you? Do you expect health
insurance or other fringe benefits
— what are you going to cost the
business, and does that cost equal
your worth?
4. Have you worked for someone else for 2-3 years prior to
working in the family business?
5. Does the person who wants
to join the business still live at
home? If so, say no to employment until they live under their
own roof.
6. Does Mom still do the potential employee’s laundry? If yes,
then don’t employ them.
For the younger generation,
Brown suggests they be kind,
courteous and respectful, and
work to exceed expectations and
add tremendous value to the business. If the senior generation truly
wants the business to continue, the
result will be an intentional and
gradual movement through the
ranks of laborer, manager, leader
and next owner. “If you’ve been
kind, courteous, respectful and
exceeding expectations for six
years, and nothing has changed
from the day you started, run and
go work somewhere else. Hope
is not a good business strategy,”
adds Brown.
Upon agreeing to bring members of the next generation onboard, Brown stresses that a conversation isn’t a contract. “If it’s
not in writing, it doesn’t exist,”
she says. A young person can’t
bank his or her future on a spoken
promise; even among family, it
pays to get things on paper. She
cites these three “lies” as the most
commonly told:
• Work hard and someday this
will all be yours.
• I’m going to retire.
• Don’t worry about your brothers and sisters; they have their own
jobs and aren’t interested in this
business.
Last but not least, Brown underscores the importance of an exit
strategy, including what triggers
it; who has the option to buy and
in what order; how assets will
be appraised; and a clear definition of payment terms (including
interest rates). All these should
be laid out and signed in a legal
document. “I believe that before
transitioning ownership of assets,
you should already have skin in
the game, an education that is
relevant of this industry, full-time
believe it is the first major change
since 2008. Some minor tweaks
are made more often. Recall that
a similar shift happened for the
pork cutout last January when
packers provided updated yields
as part of the new mandatory
wholesale pork reporting system.
That was the first change for pork
yields since 2005.
Every packer — and every
plant, actually — computes its
own cutout value based on its
own actual cut yields and the
prices that it gets for the various
products it sells. The cutout value
is the single most important determinant of how much a packer will
bid for cattle on any given day.
USDA tries to estimate an average cutout value across packers
by using “average” — or, at least,
representative — cut yields and
reported prices. Under mandatory
price reporting, those reported
prices should be the same as
Relationships Built To Last
Our business has been built on providing rural America with
innovative financial products delivered by knowledgeable and
experienced agricultural specialists.
Ranked Among the Top Agricultural Lenders in the Country.*
Our Agricultural Lenders are available to serve you.
$ELQJGRQ+DUULVRQEXUJ
&KULVWLDQVEXUJ6WDXQWRQ
/\QFKEXUJ %ULGJHZDWHU
:\WKHYLOOH 5LFKPRQG
-RKQVRQ&LW\71 :LQFKHVWHU
First Bank
& Trust Company
Agricultural Lending Division
ZZZÀUVWEDQNFRP
*February 2013 American Banker. Based on year-end 2012 FDIC reports.
Member FDIC
Instant Savings! Bring in this
ad for a special discount
during the month of May.
packers’ actual selling prices since
USDA can audit packers records
to make sure the reported prices
are accurate. The trick, then, is to
use yields that are close to the ones
seen by packers in their plants.
But cattle and technology and
cutting methods change over time
so USDA has to adjust the yields
periodically to keep its estimated
cutout “representative” of the beef
value seen by packers.
One question about this change
is “How does it square with the
Zilmax situation?” Cut yields for
cattle fed Zilmax are higher than
for those not fed Zilmax but the
product was withdrawn in August so average yields now would
differ from those seen in plants
before that date. Our sources
indicate that USDA has adjusted
these yields to represent the current situation. Will USDA make
another adjustment if Zilmax reenters the market?
Pricey Beef Is Set To Test Appetites
Kelsey Gee and Jacob Bunge,
The Wall Street Journal
U.S. cattle prices jumped to a
record in early 2014, setting up
a fresh hit of sticker shock for
consumers at the grocer’s meat
counter. Meatpackers paid the
highest cash prices on record for
live, slaughter-ready cattle in the
major producing states of Kansas,
Nebraska and Texas. That led
traders to bid up futures prices,
which already had been rising as
retailers increased beef purchases
for the holidays and the meat industry grappled with tight cattle
supplies after prolonged drought
in parts of the U.S. Great Plains.
Analysts said the higher cattle
prices likely will be passed along
to U.S. consumers in the next few
months. That would boost freshbeef prices at retail that surged
to a record $5.014 a pound in
November, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, a 26%
increase over five years ago.
Higher beef prices could further pinch per-capita U.S. consumption of the red meat, which
has slumped 25% in the past
three decades as Americans have
turned to less-costly meats or
avoided animal protein for health
and other reasons. Some analysts
said they expected consumers, as
well as some retailers, to resist the
higher costs as they face continued economic headwinds. The
USDA estimates retail beef prices
will climb 2.5% to 3.5% this year.
That would be up from about 2%
last year but below some earlier
increases, including a 10.2% jump
in retail beef prices in 2011.
U.S. cattle owners are commanding higher prices because
supplies have shrunk after roughly three years of drought in parts
of Texas, Kansas and other big
cattle-producing states. Many
ranchers reduced their herds in
recent years as the searing heat
and lack of rain parched pastures
and increased the cost of feed,
including hay and corn. The
tight supplies are squeezing companies across the beef-industry
supply chain. In recent months,
for instance, feedlot operators,
who fatten cattle for slaughter
and sell them to meatpackers
like Tyson Foods Inc. and Cargill
Inc., have paid ranchers record
prices for young beef cattle. A
big U.S. corn crop in 2013 has cut
the cost of the grain roughly 40%
in the past year. For now, that is
further reducing the cattle supply,
because the lower costs make it
more affordable for ranchers to
hold on to cows and breed more
calves to try to take advantage
of higher prices for feeder cattle.
“You look at what calves are
Virginia
Cattle Company
Radiant, VA
540/672-1760
Graded Feeder Cattle Sale
Every Tuesday10:30 a.m.
Tel-O-Auction Hook-up Available
Board Cattle and
Private Treaty Sales
Also Available
Gary Vance
540/622-4889
bringing at the sale barn, and it’s
definitely turning some eyes,”
said Micah Steinbrink, who raises
about 900 head of cattle in Loomis,
Neb., and is working to expand
his herd. “People who are in the
business already see this as an opportunity to expand if they have
the resources to do so.”
A big question for cattle traders,
meatpackers and grocery chains is
whether U.S. consumers will be
willing to pay higher prices for
Echo Ridge Farm’s
“Spring Turnout” Bull Sale
Friday, April 4th
Selling 40 Angus Yearling Bulls
Echo Ridge Farm
The Pratt Family
461 Nicks Creek Rd.
Atkins, VA 24311
(276) 759-6147
www.EchoRidgeAngus.com
Keeney’s Corner
ABC Genetics Private Treaty bull sale beginning Feb. 20, 2014
After thirty years, we have reached the final segment of our journey on the road to greater
consistency and predictability in maternal parent stock. As a reflection of this accomplishment, there
is no longer a reason to have a public auction; all of our bulls are the same price and priced relative
to April live futures; currently 1500 x $1.30 = $1950. While some phenotypic differences will always
exist in a breeding line, the genotype is such that no recognizable difference in breeding value exists
in our bulls. Our selection priority has been for the maternal components of improved profitability;
fertility {a 96% preg rate on all 250 spring calving 2013 females}, fewer problems, and efficiency of
production by breeding and utilizing complimentary types in commercial production.
Our bulls are for sale exclusively to commercial producers; the only thing a registered breeder
could accomplish with our cattle is dilute any prepotency. An understanding of closer breeding and
of the need to separate selection into maternal/paternal lines as done by competing meat species is
imperative to appreciating our program. Those still clinging to traditional phenotypic selection may
come early and privately sort until satisfied; but rest assured that the last bull chosen in a pen has the
same potential breeding value. All bulls will pass a breeding soundness test; any further guarantees
are in the price and the pedigree is in the name Keeney Angus. The sale begins Feb 20, 2014; bulls
can remain here until May 1, 2014 at the purchase price. We sell bulls over a number of states; and
help arrange delivery at cost. Volume discount. Further information and cattle breeding discussion
can be found at www. keeneyscorner.com.
Keeney Angus
5893 Hwy. 80 West • Nancy, Ky. 42544 • 5 mi. W of Somerset on Hwy. 80
606/636-6500 • e-mail: [email protected]
www.keeneyscorner.com
Beta-Agonists, The Environment And Cattle Fatigue
Kansas State University Extension
In agricultural production, maintaining
a level of excellence that includes environmental sustainability, animal welfare
and food safety, while keeping food affordable for consumers is top-of-mind for
many farmers and ranchers, as well as
the researchers looking to help them find
solutions to ensure this level of excellence.
As consumers shop at their local grocery
stores and markets, they might notice that
beef products are double or triple the price
of other protein sources, and rightfully so,
might hold beef to an even higher standard
of excellence, said Dan Thomson, Kansas
State University veterinarian, professor and
director of the Beef Cattle Institute. “Beef
is one of the purest, most wholesome and
most humanely raised forms of protein that
we produce worldwide,” Thomson said.
“As a beef industry, we are being asked
day in and day out to take a holistic view
of technology.”
The use of beta-agonists in cattle feeding
is among the modern feedlot technologies
making waves in the beef industry. K-State
researchers, including Thomson, are among
the many researchers who are examining
how beta-agonists affect cattle performance
and how the feed supplement might cause
cattle, particularly in the summer months, to
be slow-moving and stiff-muscled once they
arrive at packing facilities. “We’re going to
learn more about the last 30 days on feed,”
Thomson said of research on beta-agonists.
“Do we have heat stress mitigation plans
in place at the feeding facilities? Are we
pushing that boundary of having too heavy
weight carcasses? Are we using low-stress
cattle handling techniques? How far away
from the load out facility are the fat cattle
being moved? Are we shipping them during
the afternoon in the heat of the day, or are
we shipping them at 2 a.m.? Are the truckers
trained to properly transport these animals?
How long do they wait at the slaughter facility? All of these different risk factors are
going to have to be bundled in.”
Feedlots have used beta-agonists, a cattle
feed supplement approved by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) and considered safe from a food safety perspective, to
improve the cattle’s natural ability to convert feed into more lean muscle. Zilmax, formally known as zilpaterol hydrocholoride,
is one of only two beta-agonists approved
for cattle feeding on the market. However,
Merck Animal Health, manufacturer of
Zilmax, voluntarily suspended sales of the
product last September when major U.S.
meat packer Tyson announced it would stop
buying cattle fed Zilmax due to an animal
welfare concern, which questioned if the
product affected the ambulatory ability, or
movement, of cattle. Thomson said that
because the slow-moving cattle reports were
more consistent during the summer months,
he has questioned how heat stress and feeding beta-agonists might together create what
he calls “cattle fatigue syndrome.”
“This isn’t a new phenomenon,” Thomson
said. “We’ve seen this in other species. The
swine industry 15 to 20 years ago discovered
pig fatigue syndrome. It occurred about the
time they started feeding beta-agonists at a
very high level to pigs. Market hogs would
arrive at the plant, and they were stiff,
open-mouth breathing, had blotchy skin,
muscle tremors and were going through
stress.” Thomson said many in the swine
industry started calling these pigs “NANI”
pigs, meaning non-ambulatory, non-injured.
“So these pigs show up (at the packing facility), and they don’t have any clinical signs
of injury besides that they don’t move,”
Thomson said. “(Researchers) did diagnostic tests to look at the difference between
non-ambulatory pigs and pigs within the
same truckload that were able to move. They
found elevated serum lactate and creatine
phosphokinase (CPK) levels, which are both
indicative of depletion of muscle glucose or
muscle damage in these big, heavily muscled animals.” Regardless of beta-agonist
use in feeding pigs, Thomson said, the swine
Appetites
beef. If some turn to other meats, as has
occurred in the past, cattle prices could
retreat. Last year, some consumers pushed
back at higher beef costs. Beef sales volumes fell 0.7% in the 52 weeks that ended
Oct. 26 from a year earlier at 18,000 grocery
stores, supermarkets and other retail outlets
tracked by market-research firm Nielsen
Co. Rising prices have turned strip steaks,
rib-eyes and other prime cuts of beef into
“luxury items,” said Brett Hundley, an
analyst with BB&T Capital Markets. “That’s
always a dangerous component in today’s
market, where the consumer remains soft,”
he said. “We may have to tweak our [retail]
prices, but margins are always a balancing
act,” he said. “You may put something on
sale, which gives you lower margins, but
you make it up with higher [sales] volume.”
Analysts said beef prices will stay high for
several more years because of the time it
takes to bring cattle to market. Calves take
about nine months to deliver and then are
fed for 12 to 18 months before slaughter.
industry went from having about a 250-lb.
average out weight to a 300-lb. average out
weight on market hogs. So the hogs had
more weight to carry around at the packing
facility. To see if beta-agonists played a role
in the movement concerns, researchers did a
series of tests on market hogs that were not
fed beta-agonists. They put some through a
stressful situation prior to shipping them to
slaughter, while the others did not experience any stress. “They were able to recreate
the same syndrome that we’re now seeing
in some cattle,” Thomson said. “Generally,
physical stress, whether they were on a
beta-agonist or not, showed clinical signs
of fatigue in these market hogs.” Still, the
swine industry has since cut the dose of
beta-agonists in feeding by about 75 percent,
Thomson said.
The beef industry has a really good
start on understanding what cattle fatigue
syndrome is, Thomson said, but the reason
more research must be done is that, like the
NANI pigs, the syndrome has shown up
in cattle that were fed a beta-agonist and
cattle that were not fed a beta-agonist. “In
our research, when we’ve looked at cattle
that are not stressed and they’re on one of
the beta-agonists on the market, we’ve not
seen anything but an increase in heart rate
by about 10 beats per minute and no difference in lactate or CPK levels,” Thomson
said. “However, we have to understand
that when we have seen the issues with this
fatigue cattle syndrome at packing facilities,
it’s during the summer months when we
have heat stress.”
Moving forward, Thomson said the
industry needs to better-understand the
clinical and physiological responses of
beta-agonists in cattle, if dosages in cattle
feeding rations might need to be altered and
if there is a potential genetic component to
it as well.
February Beef Herd Management Advisor
Scott P. Greiner &
Mark A. McCann
Extension Beef Specialists,
Virginia Tech
[email protected] ,
[email protected]
The outlook for the cattle business is exciting. The combination
of lower feed prices and potentially
record cattle prices are enough to
excite anyone’s imagination. Is it
the time to expand the cow herd
or cash in on high prices? There
has never been a better time to take
advantage of enterprise budgets
as a tool. Enterprise budgets can
provide a summary of annual production costs, and make it easier to
identify the factors which impact
your bottom line in both the cost
and revenue columns. Specific
items such as the cost to develop
replacement heifers can be evaluated. By combining budgets with
key assumptions it is possible to
consider the adoption of certain
management practices in terms of
their costs and potential returns.
Good examples would be the addition of a timed AI program or
perhaps revisiting the economics
of creep feeding in the light of
grain costs and calf prices. History
has taught us that grazed forages
are our best value for the cow. The
addition of clovers to pastures, strategic weed control and stockpiling
are management options worthy of
consideration in the upcoming year
to reduce reliance on harvested forages and feedstuffs and decrease
annual feed costs.
Spring Calving Herds
(January-March)
General
• Prepare for calving season by
checking inventory and securing
necessary supplies (ob equipment,
tube feeder, colostrum supplement,
ear tags, animal health products,
calving book, etc.)
• Move pregnant heifers and
early calving cows to calving area
about 2 weeks before due date
• Check cows frequently during
calving season. Optimal interval is
to check calving females is every
4 hours.
• Utilize calving area that is
clean and well drained. Reduce
exposure to scours by moving 2-3
day old pairs out of calving area
to separate pasture (reduce commingling of newborn calves with
older calves).
• Identify calves promptly at
birth. Record birth weight, calving
ease score, teat/udder score, and
mothering ability of cow.
Nutrition and Forages
• Evaluate growth of yearling
heifers with goal of reaching 6065% of mature weight by breeding. Depending on forage quality,
supplementation maybe needed to
meet weight gain target.
• Feed better quality hay during
late gestation and early lactation. If
quality is unknown, submit sample
for nutrient analysis (local extension office can assist). Target quality
is 11-12% crude protein and 58-60%
TDN. Supplement protein and/or
energy as needed.
• Frost seed clovers mid to late
month. Four lbs red clover and
2lbs of ladino is recommended.
Best success will be achieved by
choosing areas with little or no
plant residue.
Herd Health
• Ensure colostrum intake first
few hours of life in newborn calves.
Supplement if necessary. Newborn
calves need 10% of body weight in
colostrums first 24 hours of life.
• Provide selenium and vitamin A & D injections to newborn
calves
• Castrate commercial calves
at birth
• Monitor calves closely for
scours, have treatment supplies
Complete
Working Facilities
for Cattle and
Bison
Heavy, rugged construction – Built to last!
Quality Equipment at Competitive Prices
New ”Rancher” Hydraulic
Squeeze Chute
Information or Brochures:
Peter Hostetler • 1-540-810-4605
on hand.
• Evaluate lice control program
and consult your veterinarian for
recommendations.
Genetics
• Make plans for spring bull-buying season. Evaluate current herd
bulls for progeny performance and
soundness. Establish herd genetic
goals, and selection criteria for AI
sires and new herd bulls. Order
semen.
• Collect yearling performance
data (weight, height, scrotal, ultrasound) in seedstock herds.
Fall Calving Herds
(September-November)
General
• Monitor cows closely during
breeding season for signs of returned estrus. Contact veterinarian
to evaluate fertility of bull if many
cows repeat cycle. Remove bulls
for to maintain controlled calving
season (60-90 days).
• Begin planning marketing
strategy for calf crop.
• Plan to pregnancy check heifers
as soon as possible post breeding.
Nutrition and Forages
• Begin creep feeding or creep
grazing calves if desired.
• Once breeding concludes,
supplementation should be adjusted to mid-lactation nutritional
requirements.
• Frost seed clovers mid to late
month. Four lbs red clover and
2lbs of ladino is recommended.
Best success will be achieved by
choosing areas with little or no
plant residue.
Herd Health
• Monitor calves closely for
health issues, particularly respiratory disease.
• Administer 7-way clostridial
vaccine and respiratory vaccinations (especially if killed products
are used; booster dose given at
Division of Ashby Herd Health Services, Inc.
2420 Grace Chapel Road
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Day/Night (540) 433-0430
1-800-296-COWS (2697)
Randall H. Hinshaw, D.V.M. (540) 246-2697
Sarah S. Whitman, M.S., D.V.M.
Obituary
President of the National Society
of Livestock Records, and was inducted in to the Hereford Hall of
Merit. He was a member of Village
Presbyterian Church. The greatest
loves of his life were his family, his
many friends, music, Virginia Tech
football, North Texas football, the
Kansas City Royals and the Kansas
City Chiefs.
434/286-2743 Office 434/286-3620 Fax
434/286-2423 Residence • Paul M. Coleman
If you are anticipating an on-farm equipment or
livestock sale, call for a free, no obligation visit.
Enjoy this Heart-Healthy Recipe, Two Steppin’ Tenderloin
Henry Hopkins
“Hop” Dickenson
Henry Hopkins “Hop” Dickenson passed away peacefully at
his home, with his family by his
side on Dec. 24, 2013. His death
followed an 18- month battle with
cancer. He was preceded in death
by his infant son, Samuel McClure Dickenson, and his parents,
Henry and Margaret Dickenson.
He is survived by his wife, Polly
McClure Dickenson. Also, his
son, Hank, daughter-in-law,
Missy and grandsons, Dan and
Joe, of Denton, Texas; his sister,
Kathryn Johnson, brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Virginia
Dickenson, all of Lebanon, Va.;
brother-in-law, Fin McClure and
his wife Sibley, brother-in-law, J.A.
“Mac” McClure, all of Staunton,
Va.; six dearly loved nieces and
nephews and 11 great nieces and
nephews. He was a graduate of
Virginia Tech. He served two
years in the Army in Germany.
He was employed by the American Hereford Association for 38
years, 24 as chief executive officer.
During his career, he traveled
to 36 countries. Considered the
originator of Certified Hereford
Beef, he was regarded as a beef
association trail blazer. He was a
driving force in bringing the two
populations of Hereford people
and the cattle they raise together
for the good of the industry. He
was responsible for introducing
total performance recording. He
served on the National Livestock
Meat Board, Agricultural Hall of
Fame, American Royal Board of
Directors, Past President of the
U.S. Beef Breeds Council, Past
Ingredients:
2 beef Tenderloin Steaks, cut 1-1/2 inches thick (about 5
to 6 ounces each)
3 cups fresh baby spinach, divided
2 tablespoons toasted sliced almonds
2 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese
1 clove garlic, coarsely chopped
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons water, divided
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup uncooked brown rice
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
2 tablespoons chopped dried cherries
Toasted sliced almonds (optional)
NEW
FORM
AT
NEW
DATE
2014
Virginia Cattle
Industry Convention
March 27-30, 2014
Rockingham County
Fairgrounds
NEW
LOCA
TION
SEE
PAGE
20-21
IN
NEW ON
ATI
FORM
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TWO STEPPIN’ TENDERLOIN:
1. Place 2 cups spinach, almonds, cheese and garlic
in food processor container. Cover; process until
coarse paste forms. With motor running, slowly add 2
tablespoons water and oil until smooth. Season with salt,
as desired. Set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 350°F. Heat ovenproof, nonstick
skillet over medium heat. Place beef steaks in skillet and
brown 2 minutes. Turn steaks over and place skillet into
preheated oven; cook 13 to 18 minutes for medium rare
to medium doneness, turning once.
3. Meanwhile, combine rice, remaining 1 cup water and
salt, if desired, in medium saucepan; cook according
to package directions. Chop remaining 1 cup spinach.
During last 5 minutes of cooking, add chopped spinach
to pan and continue to cook. Remove from heat, add
cherries and 1 tablespoon pesto to rice; stir to combine.
4. Remove steaks from oven when internal temperature
reaches 135°F for medium rare; 150°F for medium
doneness. Remove steaks from pan; tent loosely with
aluminum foil. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Temperature
will continue to rise about 10°F to reach 145°F for
medium rare; 160°F for medium doneness.
5. Serve steaks over brown rice with remaining pesto.
Garnish rice with additional almonds, if desired.
2014 Dublin Feeder Cattle
Fall Sale Schedule
March 12, 2014
All Breed Steer/Heifer
All Sales held at Pulaski Livestock
Market Dublin, VA
540-674-5311
Sale time 7:30 p.m.
For Info Contact:
Joe Meek
540-674-6080 H
540-674-5311 O
Dublin Feeder Cattle Assoc.
P.O. Box 370
Dublin, VA 24084
KNOLL CREST FARM
JAMES, PAUL, JIM, BRIAN BENNETT
17659 RED HOUSE RD.
RED HOUSE, VA 23963
434-376-3567 OFFICE
434-376-7008 FAX
JAMES BENNETT - 434-376-7299
PAUL BENNETT 434-376-5675
JIM BENNETT 434-376-5760
BRIAN BENNETT 434-376-5309
MAPLEWOOD FARM
MOUNTAIN LION MEADOW
OAK CREEK FARM
JOHN AND KAREN FLEISHMAN
DANIEL AND ELIZABETH
5442 Daniel Cupp Road
Dayton, VA 22821
John - 540-421-9511
Daniel - 540-383-1688
[email protected]
TODD, LYDIA, LAYLA AND LILLY SCOTT
1191 Spring Mill Road
Concord, VA 24538
434-665-1224
434-993-2502
BILLY AND JACKIE KOONTZ
25840 Independence Road
Unionville, VA 22567
540-854-6567
[email protected]
POTTS CREEK FARM
JASPER & ALICE
PERSINGER, JR.
2917 POTTS CREEK ROAD
COVINGTON, VA 24426
540-747-3261
[email protected]
ROLLING HILLS FARM
HARRY & BARBARA
KNABE
2074 Gravel Hill Rd.
DILLWYN, VA 23936
(434) 983-3110
2.2 MI. EAST of
U.S. 15 on 617
420 NORTH HAYFIELD RD.
WINCHESTER, VA 22603
Sid & Dorothy Rogers
HOME - 540-888-3134
CELL - 540-539-3352
[email protected]
FAUQUIER FARM
DIAMOND “W” FARM
6470 BEVERLYS MILL ROAD
BROAD RUN, VA 20137
HOME 540-347-4343
OFFICE 540-347-7188
NORTHERN VA area
CATTLE FOR SALE
[email protected]
Saturday, April 19, 2014 • 11:30 AM
Virginia Hereford Association Spring
Bonanza Sale @ 11:30 AM
Ken & Doris Worley
25052 Rich Valley Rd.
Abingdon, VA 24210
276-944-3458
cell: 276-356-3458
[email protected]
DEER TRACK FARM
CEDAR PLAINS FARM
R.E. BALTIMORE, OWNER,
MANAGER, FIELD HAND
150 Cartersville Ext.
Cartersville, VA 23027
(H) 804-375-3071
(O) 804-399-7409
3320 Deer Track Rd.,
Spotsylvania, VA 22551
BOB SCHAFFER
540-582-9234 (FARM)
[email protected]
www.deertrackfarm.com
“All Cattle Made In America”
“Virginia Finest”
Performance Tested Bulls for sale.
COTTAGE HILL FARM
HICKORY SPRINGS FARM
MIKE TAYLOR
20 Cottage Hill Road
Petersburg, WV 26847
JOHN BRASUK
RT. 2 BOX 211-A
FAIRMONT, W.VA. 26554
304-363-5918
[email protected]
[email protected]
304-257-1557 (home)
304-668-0580 (cell)
Rockingham County Fairgrounds
Harrisonburg, Virginia
NORVUE FARM
JACK SHEEHAN
4442 Factory Mill Rd.
Dabneys, VA 23102
Telephone: 804-556-4947
email: [email protected]
BAY BROOK FARM
Many cattle producers consider black baldies to be the BEST
commercial cows in the industry.
More fertility, productivity, longevity, docility, profitability
RODNEY & BARBARA PHILLIPS
4277 FACTORY MILL ROAD
DABNEYS, VA 23102
804-556-3810
[email protected]
“Hereford Bulls for sale
at all times.”
DUNROVIN
DON & SHEILA RICHARDSON
3473 DUNROVIN FARM
CROZET, VA 22932
434-823-4438
e-mail: [email protected]
attractive, thick cattle with
great carcass traits using
DR WORLD CLASS
COMPLETE (A TOP 774 SON)
FROGTOWN ACRES
JERRY & REBECCA FUNKHOUSER
417 Frogtown Lane
Edinburg, VA 22824
Home: 540-984-8833
Jerry Cell: 540-333-1019
Rebecca Cell: 540-333-1019
email: [email protected]
MEADOW RIDGE
FARMS, INC.
DOUG & MELISSA HARRISON
2184 Hillyard Drive
Broadway, VA 22815
540-896-5004
[email protected]
PIONEER FARMS
ROCK MILLS HEREFORDS
STONE RIDGE MANOR
CHARLES, MEREDITH AND
OLIVIA WILLIAMS
485 Hereford Crossing
Fairfield, VA 24435
[email protected]
540-460-8803
PAUL AND KIM NOVAK
240 THUNDER VALLEY LANE
Castleton, VA 22716
540-937-5553
[email protected]
DAN AND SETH SNYDER
654 COLD SPRING ROAD
Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-642-9199
[email protected]
WILLINGHAM FARM
Daron Culbertson
P.O. Box 91
Remington, VA 22734
540-270-2185
[email protected]
“In memory of Alton Willingham”
Advantages Of AI vs. Natural Service
Kasey Brown, associate editor, &
Shauna Rose Hermel, editor
Reprinted with permission
from www.appliedreprostrategies.
com/2013, an event coverage site
provided by the Angus Journal
Artificial insemination (AI) gives
breeders many advantages in terms
of management, economics and
genetic improvement, said Scott
Greiner, professor and beef cattle
extension specialist with Virginia
Tech. He spoke to more than 170
attendees at the 2013 Applied Reproductive Strategies in Beef Cattle
(ARSBC) Symposium in Staunton,
Va., Oct. 15-16. “There are lots of
reasons to AI, and we’ve spent
this conference … talking about
those benefits,” Greiner said. AI
and estrous synchronization help
enhance reproductive efficiency,
jump-start non-cycling cows to
start cycling, shorten breeding
and calving seasons, increase the
average age of calves and their uniformity at sale time, increase pay
weights, improve management of
cows and calves, and improve the
herd’s genetics, said Greiner.
“As we look at making genetic
change in beef cattle, there’s really
four critical areas,” said Greiner,
pointing to accuracy of selection,
selection intensity, genetic variation
in the trait and generation interval.
“How quickly we can change genetics and how effectively we can
do that are influenced by these
things. One of the big reasons to AI
is the opportunity to use proven,
high-accuracy bulls, said Greiner,
describing accuracy as the correlation, or relationship, between the
true breeding value of a bull and
what his estimated breeding value
is. “In a perfect world, that relationship is 1,” he explained. “That
means with 100% confidence,
or correlation of 1, that we truly
know what that bull’s breeding
value is. That never happens. We
can approach that, but we never
know with 100% confidence.” On
the other end of the spectrum is 0,
which Greiner called equivalent to
randomly picking a number and
putting it down on paper. Yearling
bulls with a performance pedigree
generally have accuracies of 0.050.30. AI sires that have been widely
used in numerous herds may have
accuracies of 0.9 and greater.
Greiner explained that the industry deals in Beef Improvement
Federation (BIF) accuracies, which
are more conservative than true accuracies and should give us greater
confidence in the predictive power
of the EPD. Accuracies have value
in showing us how much an individual’s values might change with
more data added from additional
progeny and additional herds,
Greiner noted. Breed associations
publish possible change values that
can be used to establish a range in
Fig. 1
which the true EPD would fall.
Greiner said he finds it useful to
plot that possible change on the
percentile table as depicted in Fig.
1. The circle encloses the range in
which the proven bull’s probable
true birth weight EPD would be
expected to occur two-thirds of the
time. The box indicates the range
in which the lower-accuracy bull’s
probable true accuracy would
be expected to fall. Whether he
changes favorably or unfavorably,
the high-accuracy sire is going to
be a calving-ease sire. Not so for
the unproven bull.
“Keep in mind that from a statistical standpoint the chances are
equal that the young bull will get
better in terms of calving ease and
lower birth weight,” he emphasized. “That chance is equal to him
getting poorer from the context of
being a heavier-birth-weight bull.”
:($7+(5$%,/,7<
720$7&+$1<
(19,5210(17
®
W
L
H
F
Little Windy Hill
Farms
QUALITY
GELBVIEH,
BALANCER AND
ANGUS CATTLE
6916 Peppers Ferry Road
Max Meadows, Va 24360
Doug & Sue Hughes
H 276-637-3916
[email protected]
Cell 276-620-4271
www.crystalyx.com l 800.727.2502
The addition of WeatherAll® Protection to CRYSTALYX®
BioBarrel® helps to better match container degradation rate
under wet conditions. Eliminate labor and costs associated with collecting and
returning steel barrels or disposing of plastic containers. It’s effective, simple and
can make everyday hassles and frustrations disappear, just like the BioBarrel®.
Degradability. Durability. Weatherability.
Virginia Simmental Association
MEMBER APPLICATION
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP - $35 PER YEAR
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP - $15 PER YEAR
MEMBERSHIP NOT ENTITLED TO VOTE
OR HOLD OFFICE
JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP - $10 PER YEAR
MEMBERSHIP UP TO 21 YEARS OF AGE
FULL ADDRESS______________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
ASA MEMBERSHIP #_____________________________________
TELEPHONE #___________________________________________
E-MAIL ADDRESS _______________________________________
SIMMENTAL INTERESTS (I.E. FULL BLOOD, PUREBREDS, BLACKS,
REDS, CROSSBREEDING)
________________________________________________________
FARM NAME_______________________________________________
PERSONAL NAME__________________________________________
JUNIORS NAMES___________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
RETURN TO:
VIRGINIA SIMMENTAL ASSOCIATION, INC.
4311 BLUEGRASS TRAIL, BLAND, VA 24315
PHONE 276-688-6188
[email protected]
___________________________________________________________
www.virginiasimmental.com
VIRGINIA
SIMMENTAL
ASSOCIATION
Kathy Penley, Secretary
4311 East Blue Grass Trail
Bland, VA 24315
276-688-6188
540-922-3592
[email protected]
AI
There is also a chance that he would
fall out of that 67% confidence-interval box. Greiner said accuracy
is influenced by data — both the
quantity and the quality of data
submitted, including pedigree, individual performance and progeny
data; heritability; and genomics.
Greiner shared a table showing
how the number of progeny records
influence accuracy for traits of low,
moderate and high heritability. As
heritability goes up, fewer progeny
are needed to achieve higher accuracy levels.
Genomics are now being applied
in several breeds to enhance EPDs,
Greiner noted. Genomic results are
incorporated into EPDs as a correlated trait through national cattle
evaluation, adding information and
Angus, Greiner said most of the
traits for which there are genomic
tests explain between 35% and
49% of the genetic variation of
the trait. That means that for most
traits, genomic results would be
similar to having eight-20 progeny
records (depending on the trait).
That can increase the confidence
level in buying unproven yearling bulls. Regarding selection
intensity, Greiner noted that a
significant number of proven sires
are superior to breed average for
multiple traits. These proven bulls
can be used as AI sires to provide
genetic reach with confidence and
predictability. AI also helps manage genetic antagonisms, Greiner
said. Several traits are antagonistic
to each other, like calving ease
and growth, growth and mature
size, marbling and carcass fat, and
marbling and ribeye area. Calling
enhancing the accuracy of the EPDs
cattlemen are already using. “How
much the genomic result impacts
accuracy is dependent on several
factors,” said Greiner. “One of those
is how much of the genetic variation
does that genomic test explain in
the trait itself.” The more variation
it explains, the larger its influence
on accuracy. Using examples from
them “curve benders,” he noted
that several proven sires have
favorable combinations of these
antagonistic traits.”
Some producers worry that
AI will reduce genetic variation,
but Greiner offered a different
view. AI gives the opportunity
to select multiple sires of differing pedigrees but similar genetic
merit, so pedigrees can be diverse
without compromising uniformity
in genetic quality. Additionally, he
noted that AI helps a crossbreeding program by requiring fewer
bulls and fewer breeding pastures.
Additional benefits include simplification of natural-service sire
selection in AI herds. For instance,
if a maternal sire is used to AI heifers, a higher-birth-weight-EPD,
terminal sire can be purchased
as a cleanup bull, generally at a
lower price point. The advantage
of AI calves being born earlier in
the season, in a tighter group with
better genetics interact to add value
to AI-sired calves, noted Greiner,
sharing documented added value
shared by commercial cattlemen
Tim Sutphin (at the 2010 ARSBC
Symposium) and Terry Slusher
(earlier during this symposium).
In terms of non-EPD traits such as
udder scores and other phenotypic
traits, the AI companies have in
place systems to help evaluate and
rate bulls.
In conclusion, Greiner noted,
“Every great proven bull was once
a young, unproven bull — every
single one of them. We need to
11th Annual
Saturday April 5, 2014 • 1:00 PM
Virginia Angus Association
Virginia Angus Breeders Page
Felicia G Roberts Office Manager
Felicia G.
Roberts,
Office
Manager
Buddy
Shelton,
President
P.O. Box 209 Fishersville, VA
P.O. Box 209 Fishersville, VA
1IPOFt'BY
1IPOFt'BY
Email: [email protected]
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
www.vaangus.org
Website: www.vaangus.org
All Cattle Available by Private Treaty!
CSF Cattle Company
7725 North Lee Highway
Raphine, VA 24472
&6 )it]geraOG, 2wner 54447
&hanFe 6nyGer, HerGVPan 5427
[email protected]
Family
owne
& operat d
ed
come
We wel t
your visi
Hill Crest Farm
Poor House Angus
Jerry & Connie Hall
PO Box 528
Upperville, VA 20185
540-364-2875
Fax: 540-364-3315
Cell: 540-454-1512
The John Rucker Family
2394 Deleplane Grade Rd.
Delaplane, VA 20144
540-364-2875
Cattle Available by Private Treaty
Watch for our consignments in Virginia Sales
We MEAT your needs!!
We MEAT your needs!!
W
d !!
Family Business
Since 1960
703 Woodman Rd.
Rock Mount, VA 24151
PLEASE MAKE A NOTE......
PLEASE MAKE A NOTE......
Virginia Angus Association will hold our
Annual Meeting on Saturday, February 2, 2013
at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Staunton, VA
Virginia Angus *iIt Sale is ASril 1, 2013 at the
Rockingham Co. Fairgrounds, Harrisonburg, VA.
Consignment forms are available on our website
at www.vaangus.org. They have also been mailed
with the 2013 membership dues.
NOM,NAT,ON 'EA'L,NE 212013
Form will arrive with dues
Looking Forward
to Seeing You at
Angus
Gift Sale
UPCOMING EVENTS
March 8 - 10
MAJAC Show - H’burg, VA
March 14
Southside Assoc. Ann Mtg, Keysville, VA
March 16
March
28, 2014
March 23
Whitestone
Farm Pasture Performance Sale
at Rockingham
Aldie, VA
March 23
Fairgrounds
BCIA Southwest Performance Tested Bull Sale
Culpeper, VA
March 2
Jason Thurman
540-493-4813
Steve Furrow
540-520-4804
James D. Bennett
(434) 376-3567
Jim G. Bennett
(434) 376-5760
Zach, Dara & Dalton Tucker
211 Four Locust Lake Lane
Keysville, VA 23947
(434) 735-8161 * (434) 736-9407
[email protected]
www.fourlocustangus.com
ngus
The Program with A Plan
The Plan with A Purpose
The Arehart’s
2835 Shutterlee Mill Rd.
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 885-8732
Cell (540) 290-2240
Cell (540) 290-4251
Bulls & Heifers available
Private Treaty
Annual Spring
Bull & Female Sale
Last Friday in April
Annual Fall
Bull & Female Sale
First Friday in November
Quaker Hill Farm
Charles and Lee Rosson
572 3oinde[ter Road LoXisa, VA 2
)arm 54.7.45 Charles 54.4.52
[email protected]
www.TXaNerhillfarm.com
Headquarters for Hindquarters Sale, Harrisonburg, VA
Echo Ridge “Spring Turnout” Bull Sale
Atkins, VA
John Thurman
540-493-6025
rehart
**Look for Edgewood Bulls in the BCIA
Sale or call us to visit and look at our
On Farm Private Treaty Bulls!**
Edgewood Angus
The Pete Henderson Family
Mailing Address:400 Angus Lane, Williamsburg, VA 23188
Farm Address: 28225 King William Hwy., West Point, VA 23181
Pete·s &ell: 5 88024 Sete#hendersoninF.Fom
Paul S. Bennett
(434) 376-5675
Brian R. Bennett
(434) 376-5309
ANGUS FARM
“Serving the Beef Industry Since 1944”
17659 Red House Rd.
Red House, VA 23963
2f¿ce 44 )D[ 44 Private Treaty Female Inquires Welcomed
Dennis J. Pearson
8459 March Wales Road
Warrenton, Virginia 20186
(540) 326-2222
Email:[email protected]
Website: www.soldiershillangusfarm.com
Clean Management Review For Beef Board
Michael Fielding,
The Meating Place
A management review of the
Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) by
the Livestock, Poultry and Seed
Program of USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS) verified
that the Beef Board is operating
within the provisions of the Beef
Promotion and Research Act and
Order and in line with all applicable Federal laws, regulations
and policies. “In our management
review of CBB, we noted no reportable findings,” according to the
AI
keep that in mind and certainly
there’s a need to test those young,
exciting bulls, get them proven and
then put them to work.” Greiner
spoke during Wednesday’s ARSBC session focused on genetic
and management tools to get the
most from reproductive efforts.
report from the AMS Compliance
and Analysis Program staff. “Our
review showed that CBB adhered
to the AMS Guidelines for Oversight of Research and Promotion
Programs, as well as its own policies.” The review was completed
per USDA requirements that AMS
conduct management reviews of
all commodity boards every three
years.
“As secretary-treasurer of the
Beef Board, I review finances of
the Board on a monthly basis,”
said Jimmy Maxey, a cattle feeder
in Fresno, Calif. “Having seen all
Visit the Newsroom at www.appliedreprostrategies.com to listen
to his presentation and to view his
PowerPoint slides and proceedings
paper. This comprehensive coverage of the symposium is compiled
by the Angus Journal editorial
team. The site is made possible
through sponsorship by the Beef
Reproduction Task Force.
TWISTED WIRE
DESIGNS
Customized Embroidery
Let Us Personalize Jackets, Windbreakers, Sweatshirts,
or Hats for You and Your Farm
(276) 780-0452 • Chilhowie, VA -Shipping Available
Don’t Just Buy a Bull….
Invest in a Program
Buy or lease a Roseda Black Angus bull and
Buy or lease a Roseda Black Angus bull and become a
become a partner in an innovative branded beef
partner in an innovative branded beef program. Roseda
program. Roseda Farm will purchase your Roseda
Farm will purchase your Roseda sired calves at comsired calves
competitive
a premium
petitive
pricesat
plus
a premiumprices
basedplus
on your
level of
based on your
ofkeeping.
management
andatrecord
management
andlevel
record
Bulls start
$1200
keeping.
Bulls atstart
at $2000 with
bull leasesconat
with
bull leases
$500/season.
For information
$800/season. For information contact:
tact:
Dean Bryant
Roseda Farm
410-472-2697
www.roseda.com
[email protected]
of the policies and procedures at
work in protecting our checkoff
investments, I have confidence in
the systems we have in place, so I
can’t say that I am surprised by the
results.” As part of the financial
audit, AMS selected a sample of
60 total disbursements – totaling
$9.84 million – for fiscal years 2011,
2012 and 2013 for review, as well
as supporting documentation, account coding, proper approvals,
amounts of disbursements and
appropriateness per the disbursements policy. In addition, the team
also performed a walkthrough of
a monthly cost allocation for the
National Cattlemen’s Beef Asso-
ciation, which is the Beef Board’s
largest contractor. Additional
areas of review included: risk assessment; accounting and financial
management; cash receipts and receivables; disbursement and payables; insurance and fidelity bonds;
contract compliance; promotional
REBUILD FOR ALL
THE RIGHT REASONS.
Angus Means Business: Demand for Quality is Up
The next couple of years will see unparalleled
opportunities to expand your cow herd.
But considering the investment it will take to rebuild
numbers, why make it a risky proposition?
Angus females are the industry’s best-known risk
VIHYGIVWEPPS[MRK]SYXSVIFYMPH[MXLGSR½HIRGI°
not guesswork.
They’re backed by the industry’s largest and most
comprehensive genetic-evaluation program, providing
you with unmatched capabilities to expand your herd
with precision, reliability and peace of mind.
Plus, the Angus breed does a better job of helping you
balance calving ease, growth and quality.
The wholesale beef demand index was developed by Kansas State University to accurately estimate demand
F]EGGSYRXMRKJSVGLERKIWMRTVMGIWEPIWZSPYQIMR¾EXMSRERHTSTYPEXMSR)EGL]IEVMX´WI\TVIWWIHEWERMRHI\
or percentage value relative to the base index value of 100.
Since 1990, registered Angus cattle have shown a rapid
genetic increase in weaning weight and yearling weight
accompanied by a documented improvement in
calving ease, while offering milk genetics to match a
variety of environments.
And, Angus females have proven that consistent, reliable
maternal genetics can be accompanied by improved
carcass merit. That’s opened the door to valuebased marketing opportunities for producers who’ve
embraced the quality revolution.
3201 Frederick Ave. • St. Joseph, MO • 64506
www.ANGUS.org
To subscribe to the%RKYW.SYVREP ®, call 816.383.5200.
Watch The %RKYW6ITSVX on RFD-TV every Monday morning at 7:30 CST.
© 2013-2014 American Angus Association®
Want proof?
Consumer demand for 'IVXM½IH%RKYW&IIJ ® has grown
by nearly 80% since 2004, and a growing worldwide
middle class is driving demand for quality.
Business Or Family
employment within the business
for three years, and a fire in your
belly for the job,” she explains. In
conclusion, Brown says that while
she doesn’t believe parents owe
their children a business, there are
four key things she does believe
that children are owed by their
parents:
• First, morals and values, and
an understanding of what is right
and wrong.
• Second, an opportunity for an
education. Note, however, that I
did not say you had to pay for it.
• Third, develop and discuss
legal plans for your estate, as
well as business ownership and
management transfer, and a buysell agreement. My opinion is your
will is your own business, unless
you said yes to wanting the business to continue and the assets of
your estate affect the continuation
of the business. At that point it cannot be private anymore. You must
let the rules of the game be known.
Your kids don’t have to like them,
but they deserve to know them.
• And, fourth, your kids deserve
a listing of details beyond the will,
such as what you want done with
your body upon death, where
important documents are located,
passwords to accounts, etc.”
Heart Health Month
of lean beef is only 154 calories yet
a naturally rich source of 10 essential nutrients – including protein,
iron, zinc and B-vitamins.
2. Can Be Part of a Heart-Healthy
Diet:
Research shows naturally nutrient-rich lean beef can be an
important part of a heart healthy
diet and when trimmed of visible
fat, lean beef can be a part of a low
saturated fat diet and does not increase heart disease risk factors.
3. Contains Healthy Fat:
Half the fat in beef is monounsaturated, the same heart-healthy
kind found in olive oil.
One-third of the saturated fat
in beef is stearic acid, which has
a neutral effect on blood cholesterol levels and is the same fat
recognized in chocolate for its
benefits.
4. Packs a Protein Punch:
Beef is an excellent source of
protein, a powerful nutrient that
Advisor
preweaning) to calves.
• Evaluate lice control program
and consult your veterinarian for
recommendations.
Genetics
• Make plans for spring bullbuying season. Evaluate current
herd bulls for progeny performance and soundness.
helps strengthen and sustain bodies and hearts.
A substantial body of evidence
shows protein can help in maintaining a healthy weight, building
muscle and fueling physical activity – all of which play an important role in a healthful lifestyle
and disease prevention.
5. Offers More than 29 Choices:
With more than 29 lean cuts
of beef, including favorites like
Flank steak, Tenderloin, 95 percent lean Ground Beef and TBone, it’s easy to find a variety
of delicious, heart-healthy beef
options for your next meal.
Brown acknowledges that personal relationships are tricky. “Just
like you, the more I have to deal
with people, the more I like cows!
Yet it is the people that make beef
production happen — not just
today, but into the future. Let’s
honor the family by doing the
business right, beginning now.”
“Distributor for both Virginia and North Carolina”
1J;OF>CHA#KOCJG?HN is a full service farm
equipment dealership in Southside Virginia
that has been in business for over fifty years.
We carry numerous product lines in order to
match the right product to your needs.
5B?NB?LSIOH??>;NL;=NILCGJF?G?HN
ILMNI=ENL;CF?LQ?bFF<?AF;>NIB?FJ
1.3*"',%
#KOCJG?HN!IGJ;HS
0/"OXs#LOVER6!
&!8
QQQMJ;OF>CHA?KOCJG?HNH?N
Flowing Spring
Gelbvieh
Money Making Mathematics:
2+2=5
6235 Lee Hwy.
Atkins, VA 24311
CHARLES E. ATKINS,
OWNER
(276) 783-6100
Add as much as $1,000 over the life of a
crossbred cow with planned crossbreeding.
HETEROSIS IS YOUR KEY TO PROFITABILITY
2157 Black Lick
Rural Retreat, VA 24368
Judith A. Sweeten
Registered No. 48890
Home: 276-228-6347
Cell: 401-714-6812
SOUTHFORK
FARMS
GELBVIEH &
BALANCER CATTLE
Nathan and Sue Ellen Haver
969 Little River Rd.
Goshen, Va. 24439
Gelbvieh
x British
cow with a
Balancer®
sired calf.
LITTLE WINDY HILL
Farms
Doug & Sue Hughes
6916 Peppers Ferry Road
Max Meadows, VA 24360
H 276/637-3916
O 276/637-4271
Triple D
Registered Gelbvieh
Red and Black Polled Bulls
13052 Ivor Rd., Sedley, VA 23878
Willie Diggs 770/591-3454
Alan Diggs 757/653-0174
Milton Diggs (Home) 757/859-6118
Milton Diggs (Cell) 757/328-8459
Email: [email protected]
www.wd-trid.com
Treble W Ranch
Registered Gelbvieh Cattle
17462 Fenton Drive
Abingdon, Va. 24210
Dr. Daryl Wilson/Tyler Wilson
(276) 676-2242
Joe & Gwen Wilson
(276) 628-4163
540-997-5376 540-997-5358 (Fax)
866-580-5335 (toll free)
email- [email protected]
[email protected]
®
Balancer is a Gelbvieh x Angus or Red Angus registered hybrid.
James D. Bennett
(434) 376-3567
Paul S. Bennett
(434) 276-5675
17659 Red House Road
Red House, Virginia 23963
Office (434) 376-3567
Fax (434) 376-7008
Jim G. Bennett
(434) 376-5760
Crossbreeding is smart and easy.
Handfula
Gelbviehs
www.GELBVIEH.org
Black, Polled, Purebred &
Balancer Gelbvieh Cattle
Stephen, Vivian, Megan &
Caitlin Fanning
7287 East Blue Grass Trail
Bland, VA 24315
(276) 722-2034
(276) 620-0054
To find a Gelbvieh or Balancer® breeder near you
contact a member of the Gelbvieh Breeders of Virginia
Brian R. Bennett
(434) 376-5309
LAST CALL
GTomELBVIEH
Lavelle, DVM
2984 Peppers Ferry Rd.
Wytheville, Va. 24382
(O) 276-223-4488
(H) 276-223-0104
Gelbvieh Breeders
of Virginia, Inc.
2157 Black Lick Road
Rural Retreat, VA 24368
President: Nathan Haver - 540-997-5376
Vice President: Tom Lavelle - 276-223-4488
Secretary: Joe Wilson - 276-628-4163
Treasurer:Judith Sweeten - 276-228-6347
REGISTERED POLLED
GELBVIEH
C.H. Morris & Sons
928 Morris Road
Appomattox, VA 24522
Roger L. Morris
(434) 574-6592
(434) 315-4294
President’s Message
Steve Furrow
Mid-January I had the opportunity to attend the Virginia Agribusiness Council’s Annual Banquet for the first time and would
like to share some of the take
home points with you. Virginia
Agribusiness Council advocates
for the business interests of the
diversified industry of agriculture
and forestry. Agriculture and Forestry is the #1 industry in Virginia
and equates to almost $70 billion
annually. Every year they hold a
banquet to recognize their partners
and friends.
Virginia Cattlemen’s Association
was a sponsor for the banquet and
I put on a coat and tie and headed
to Richmond. My biggest concern
about heading to Richmond was
finding a place to park. I cannot
tell you the number of times I have
past my destination in Richmond
only to learn that the next turn
around was a one way street headed in the wrong direction. Upon
arrival, I was pleasantly greeted at
the Richmond Raceway by a host
of parking attendants that pointed
me in the right direction and
managed to calm the butterflies
that had been so active as I ap-
proached the city.
One of the unique features of
the banquet is the reception prior to
the meal. In addition to providing
a chance to catch up with friends,
colleagues, and policy makers, you
have the chance to sample some
local Virginia’s Finest fare. Possibilities included fresh oysters, crab
cakes, and ham biscuits. Fresh
baked bread, cheeses, seasonings, and sauces gave the palate
a diverse atmosphere. Helping to
wash it down were options of wine
and milk. For those unwilling to
branch out, a soda bar was close by.
My favorite was the fresh baked
garlic roll, but a slice of crab cake
pie was a close second.
Another unique feature on the
evening was the opportunity to
sit and dine with a policy maker.
I had the pleasure of getting to
dine with Delegate Danny Marshall from the 11th district. His
district is the city of Danville and
surrounding area, which is not
too far from my home. As it turns
out, Delegate Marshall carved
his livelihood out of the concrete
business in the Danville area. He
understands a thing or two about
running a business and trying to
maintain a family business as he
worked with his father and brother.
When we discussed some of the
challenges in the cattle business it
was obvious he understood some
of our obstacles with increased
regulation and bureaucracy. One
of his main challenges is helping
to create jobs and reduce the red
tape associated with attracting new
businesses to his area. I believe
we have a friend with Delegate
Marshall.
I often wonder how I can be
more effective when I visit with
legislators in Richmond and Washington D.C., so I asked Delegate
Marshall how someone could be
effective in their approach to an
elected official. He responded
with two suggestions: 1- Have
your thoughts organized and on
paper. Bullet points with only the
need to know information. Bring a
copy for yourself and one for them.
2- Know your legislators. Developing a relationship with them is a
critical piece toward being heard.
He did not tell me anything that I
have not considered in the past, but
he did reinforce the importance of
those ideas. He solidified my belief that we need to have someone
advocating for our livelihood and
that need remains constant.
As I drove home from Richmond, the lasting feature of the
evening was the realization of the
size of the world we live in and no
to find out more information call
*** Consign your LOAD LOT Cattle with US!!! ***
Get our weekly market report & graded cattle prices emailed to you - Send a request
to [email protected] or our website at www.wythelivestock.com
REGULAR LIVESTOCK AUCTIONS EVERY THURSDAY @ 1:00 P.M.
Graded sale every Thursday
Please visit our website to get our 2014 Goat & Sheep Sale Dates
THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS!!
Buddy Shelton • 434-251-7149
Graham Winn • 434-251-1766
George Winn • 434-489-4458
Mike McDowell • 434-575-4850
Auctioneer • Smith Reasor • 276-620-3123
For the first time…
For the first time in human
history, income is set to surpass
population growth as the dominant driver of change in the global
food system. While the global
population is estimated to jump
from 7 billion people to 9 billion in
the next four decades, the rate of
population growth is slowing. At
the same time, individual incomes
are rising in many parts of the
developing world. That growth
will spark demand for richer, more
nutritional diets.
Clean Management Review
materials; recordkeeping and
information collection; and travel
and expense reimbursements.
In addition to the management review, the compliance
and analysis team from USDA
President’s Message
matter how busy our lives may
become we are blessed to have
people like Katie Frazier, her staff
and the VA Agribusiness Council
as our advocates. They get up
each day and serve as advocates
for our way of life and the pursuits
of our interests. We hear about all
the negatives and obstacles associated with agriculture today, but as
I listened to Governor McDonnell,
Delegate Marshall and others talk
about the impact the Council has
made and witness the record attendance at the banquet, I begin
to get a feeling of hope. Join me
next year at the VA Agribusiness
banquet and take in the features
gathered information while at the
CBB offices to address the Office
of the Inspector General’s (OIG)
recommendation for development
of supplemental audit procedures
for future CBB reviews. The information gathered will be used to
develop those procedures.
Double J Livestock LLC
WEEKLY BUYING STATION MON & THUR
4176 Silling Rd., Dayton,VA
for yourself. For information about
the VA Agribusiness Council, check
out their website at www.va-agribusiness.org.
If my ramblings above appear
to be scattered and random statements, remember these next two.
The Virginia Cattlemen’s objectives
are to promote the profit potential
of Virginia’s cattle industry, provide a voice to the legislature on
state and local issues and provide
educational opportunities for the
public. If we, VCA staff and Board
members, can be of service please
let us know.
HIGH ROAD
LIVESTOCK
PHOTOGRAPHY
& VIDEO
MARTIN MACQUEEN
www.highroad.photoreflect.com
101 Pioneer Road • Covington, VA 24426 • 540.965.2199
540-879-BULL (2855)
Direct Agents for
Slaughter & Feeder Cattle Sales
STEERS STEERS STEERS
WE NEED 800 - 950 LB. BEEF AND
HOLSTEIN STEERS
JBS FED Cattle Buying Station
Grade and Yield Your Fed Cattle HERE.
Call For Details!
Mike Allen • 540-476-4680 - Load Lots
James Housden • 540-476-0269 • Feeder/Fats
Barry Wilkins, Jr. • 540-607-6032 • Feeder/Fats
YOU WORK HARD
YOUR SUPPLEMENT SHOULD TOO.
You work hard for a living and know the importance of a dollar. You need a supplement that works for
you 24-7, rain or shine without breaking the bank. ULTRALYX® Nutritional Supplements provide local
cattle producers with the quality and nutrition you need in a supplement at an affordable price.
www.ultralyx.com l 1-888-478-5450
‘Where’s The Beef?’ Turns 30
FoxNews.com
It’s hard to believe that 30 years
ago this month, Wendy’s first
aired its iconic “Where’s the beef?”
ad. The commercial, which first
debuted on the small screen on
Jan. 10, 1984, featured three whitehaired women examining a hamburger. As they rave about the
large and fluffy hamburger bun,
one woman, Clara Peller, addresses
the obviously small hamburger
patty paired with the bun.
“Where’s the beef?” she demands during the ad. The phrase
caught on and was eventually
printed on a slew of merchandise,
including T-shirts and bumper
stickers. Recently, Wendy’s began
using the phrase once again in
2011 to promote their Hot N’ Juicy
burgers.
Extended-Release Injectable Parasiticide
5% Sterile Solution
NADA 141-327, Approved by FDA for subcutaneous injection
For the Treatment and Control of Internal and External
Parasites of Cattle on Pasture with Persistent Effectiveness
CAUTION: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
INDICATIONS FOR USE
LONGRANGE, when administered at the recommended dose volume of 1 mL per 110 lb (50 kg) body weight, is effective in
the treatment and control of 20 species and stages of internal and external parasites of cattle:
Gastrointestinal Roundworms
Cooperia oncophora – Adults and L4
Lungworms
Dictyocaulus viviparus – Adults
Cooperia punctata – Adults and L4
Cooperia surnabada – Adults and L4
Haemonchus placei – Adults
Grubs
Hypoderma bovis
Oesophagostomum radiatum – Adults
Ostertagia lyrata – Adults
Ostertagia ostertagi – Adults, L4,
and inhibited L4
Mites
Sarcoptes scabiei var. bovis
Trichostrongylus axei – Adults and L4
Trichostrongylus colubriformis – Adults
Parasites
Durations of
Persistent Effectiveness
Gastrointestinal Roundworms
Cooperia oncophora
Cooperia punctata
100 days
100 days
Haemonchus placei
Oesophagostomum radiatum
120 days
120 days
Ostertagia lyrata
Ostertagia ostertagi
120 days
120 days
Trichostrongylus axei
Lungworms
100 days
Dictyocaulus viviparus
150 days
DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
LONGRANGE® (eprinomectin) should be given only by subcutaneous injection in front of the shoulder at the recommended
dosage level of 1 mg eprinomectin per kg body weight (1 mL per 110 lb body weight).
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Withdrawal Periods and Residue Warnings
Animals intended for human consumption must not be slaughtered within 48 days of the last treatment.
This drug product is not approved for use in female dairy cattle 20 months of age or older, including dry dairy cows.
Use in these cattle may cause drug residues in milk and/or in calves born to these cows.
A withdrawal period has not been established for pre-ruminating calves. Do not use in calves to be processed for veal.
Animal Safety Warnings and Precautions
The product is likely to cause tissue damage at the site of injection, including possible granulomas and necrosis. These
reactions have disappeared without treatment. Local tissue reaction may result in trim loss of edible tissue at slaughter.
Observe cattle for injection site reactions. If injection site reactions are suspected, consult your veterinarian. This product
is not for intravenous or intramuscular use. Protect product from light. LONGRANGE® (eprinomectin) has been developed
specifically for use in cattle only. This product should not be used in other animal species.
When to Treat Cattle with Grubs
LONGRANGE effectively controls all stages of cattle grubs. However, proper timing of treatment is important. For the most
effective results, cattle should be treated as soon as possible after the end of the heel fly (warble fly) season.
Environmental Hazards
Not for use in cattle managed in feedlots or under intensive rotational grazing because the environmental impact has not
been evaluated for these scenarios.
Other Warnings: Underdosing and/or subtherapeutic concentrations of extended-release anthelmintic products may
encourage the development of parasite resistance. It is recommended that parasite resistance be monitored following the
use of any anthelmintic with the use of a fecal egg count reduction test program.
TARGET ANIMAL SAFETY
Clinical studies have demonstrated the wide margin of safety of LONGRANGE® (eprinomectin). Overdosing at 3 to 5
times the recommended dose resulted in a statistically significant reduction in average weight gain when compared
to the group tested at label dose. Treatment-related lesions observed in most cattle administered the product included
swelling, hyperemia, or necrosis in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin. The administration of LONGRANGE at 3 times the
recommended therapeutic dose had no adverse reproductive effects on beef cows at all stages of breeding or pregnancy or
on their calves.
Not for use in bulls, as reproductive safety testing has not been conducted in males intended for breeding or actively
breeding. Not for use in calves less than 3 months of age because safety testing has not been conducted in calves less than
3 months of age.
STORAGE
Store at 77° F (25° C) with excursions between 59° and 86° F (15° and 30° C). Protect from light.
Made in Canada.
Manufactured for Merial Limited, Duluth, GA, USA.
®LONGRANGE and the Cattle Head Logo are registered trademarks of Merial.
©2013 Merial. All rights reserved.
1050-2889-02, Rev. 05/2012
Quest
Quality
for
Bull & Female Sale
2nd Annual Bull &
Female Sale
For more information contact:
Gerry Scott 540-379-1975
Rob Farmer 540-270-3886
Every breed is known for a different quality and every commercial cattleman is looking to
combine those qualities.
Here is your chance to find that bull and cow to combine quality and pounds to your
next calf crop.
Yearling Charolais, Hereford, Angus and Red Angus Bulls
Several Charolais females, Red Angus females & Commercial Open Heifers
All bulls will be feed performance tested, ultrasounded and will have passed its
Breeding Soundness Exam
Don't miss it - Friday, April 18, 2014 at 3 pm
Rockingham County Fairgrounds
4808 South Valley Pike, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Check for update at www.crossmountaincattle.com
VIRGINIA CHAROLAIS ASSOCIATION
Our Charolais Association’s
annual membership meeting
will be held at the Virginia
Cattlemen’s Convention. Please
note that the Convention will
be in March instead of February
this year. Also, the new location
is at the Rockingham County
Fairgrounds in Harrisonburg,
VA. The meeting is set for March
29, 2014 at 1:00pm. We will
only change the meeting time
if there is a conflict. We request
that all members mark your
calendars and plan to be there as
your attendance is needed.
2013-2014
VCA Officers
Bill Thompson – President
1295 Park Avenue
Clifton Forge, VA 24422
540-968-1987
Kaitlin Smith –
Vice President
454 Old Farm Road
Lexington, VA 24450
540-463-6778
Deidre Harmon – Secretary
1445 Pipers Gap Road
Galax, VA 24333
276-233-8852
As for our spring sale, the new
Expo date is not a good date for
the VA Charolais breed this year.
Consignment forms will be sent
out when and if a new date is set.
Walt Winkler – Treasurer
124 Kindig Road
Waynesboro, VA 22980
540-943-6144
Please note that our Virginia
Charolais Association’s year
starts on January 1st each year. If
you are a past member and have
not paid your dues, please send
your payment to our Treasurer.
The Treasurer, Walt Winkler,
contact information is listed on
the left side of this page. All
active, in state members can
have a vote and a voice in our
association.
Rob Farmer –
Past President
8030 Greenwich Road
Catlett, VA 20119
540-270-3886
Chad Joines –
Southwest Director
Junior Advisor
Virginia Tech
Dept of Animal & Poultry
Science
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-557-7263
For those who might be
interested, our West Virginia
Association neighbors are having
their annual West Virginia Expo
sale on April 12, 2014. The
West Virginia Expo will be at
Jackson’s Mill, West Virginia
which is near Weston, West
Virginia
We would like to invite
anyone interested in
becoming a member of our
association to call one of
the officers listed above.
All members of the Virginia
Charolais Association are
entitled to join all the sales we
sponsor.
River Croft Charolais
Breeding
Polled-Registered
Performance Charolais
Cell 540-968-1987
Fax 540-962-7508
William and Agnes Anderson
P.O. Box 304
Altavista, VA 24517
(434) 369-5366
“Keeping the commercial producers in mind”
Charolais bulls
for the most
discriminating buyer
124 Kindig Road
Waynesboro, VA 22980
Walt Winkler
(540) 943-6144
Cross
Mountain
Cattle Co.
Robert Farmer
8030 Greenwich Rd.
Catlett, VA 201195
540-270-3886
Gerry Scott 540-379-1975
CREWS FARMS
Registered Charolais
784 Payneton Rd
Chatham, VA
Billy Crews, Barry Crews
Billy C. Crews, Brent Crews
(434) 656-2361
(434) 656-3771
A Dirt Road Diary - A Cowboy’s Heart
Steve Lucas
A cowboy’s heart is tender,
Although he won’t want you to
know it.
And he’ll go to great effort
To make sure that he’ll not show
it.
He’ll contend cowboys are stoics,
With a hearts as hard as stone.
Antibiotics
• This success is completely
dependent on the willingness of
a consumer to purchase the end
product, which is based not only
on price, but also on perceptions
related to animal welfare and
product safety.
Anyone who suggests picking
and choosing the regulations to
observe doesn’t understand these
relationships. Our willingness as
an industry to adhere to regulations
will determine if label directions,
EL use regulations and veterinary
oversight will continue to serve
as sufficient assurances to allow
approval of new tools for animal
health and to keep the ones we
have. Our responsibility includes
both being involved in the regulatory process through our veterinary and producer organizations,
and being very vocal about not
tolerating lack of adherence to the
regulations once they are in place.
If you’re told that some of these
regulations don’t need to be followed, you’re getting bad advice.
If you take that advice, you’re
breaking the law.
ROANOKE-HOLLINS
STOCKYARD
HOLLINS, VIRGINIA
Sales Every Monday
2:00 P.M.
But in truth, they’re easily
broken,
And they’ll go off to be alone,
If his advances are rejected
And he hurts deep down inside.
He won’t let you see it,
It’s called his cowboy pride.
But it won’t take long for his
heart to heal
Hard work won’t let him brood.
He might come back, but he
might not,
It all depends upon his mood
Be honest with your feelings,
Love or “Just like” is fine.
When he comes askin’ you to be
His Cowboy Valentine.
PUREBRED
GREY
BRAHMAN
BULLS
“FOR SALE
OR LEASE”
So ladies, you had best be
warned
As Valentine’s Day draws nigh
‘Bout trifling with a cowboy’s
heart
It’s just hello or goodbye.
Looking to Buy or Sell?
Our Nationwide Network of Marketing Services
Can Assist You With Your Needs
www.brubakersales.com
"VDUJPOFFSt4BMF.BOBHFNFOUt1SJWBUF5SFBUZ4BMFT
&MFDUSPOJD.BSLFUJOHt"EWFSUJTJOHt1IPUPHSBQIZ
Ken Brubaker
)BSSJTPOCVSH7"t
LFO!CSVCBLFSTBMFTDPN
BBB
Produce F1 Calves & gain
pounds + Heterosis
Bulls $2000-$2500 or lease
$500 until spring
“Will also buy calves back @ top market price”
Scott Strosnider - Stephens City, VA @ (540) 877-7182
BBB
BBB
McDonald Farms
2070 Walnut Springs Road
Blacksburg, VA 24060
540-552-2520 * 540-552-2947
www.mcdonaldfarms.com
BLACK POLLED SIMMENTAL and ANGUS CATTLE
“Our cows work for us; so our bulls will work for you!”
McIntire
Blue Ridge
Herefords
Cattle Company
FREEyour
BULLS
FOR
Increase
cow herd’s
fuelSALE
mileage
Positive contributions toward temperament, fertility and
cowherd
retention
makesfor
for Black
a strong
case
to
utilize
USDA
Line1
Bulls
Cow
Herds
P.O.
Box
103
Andy
McIntire
Heterosis in the many Black cowherds of Virginia.
Berryville, VA 22611
(540)
955-0066performance and
Complete
data
Polled Hereford
Bulls with completecarcass
performance
and carcass data for sale. Call for current date and video.
R. J.
Lester,
Axton,
VACattle
Main Anjou
• Show
Calves
• Breeding
R JTop
LESTER
•
BLUE
RIDGE
HEREFORDS
•
AXTON,
VIRGINIA
434-334-1376
- •day
• 276-650-8445
- night
Sires Distributor
Renaissance
Livestock Minerals
434-334-1376
TRIO FARMS, INC.
3070 US HWY BSN 340
Luray, VA 22835
Jerry Burner (540) 743-3446
www.triofarmsinc.com
SUPPLYING QUALITY CATTLE SINCE 1971
Y
AR
Private Treaty Sales of RO EAR
YE ND
U
U
bulls, heifers, cows & embryos ND
RO
Quality
Feeder Cattle
Graded Steers, Bulls
and Heifers Weekly
AVAILABLE NOW:
EXCEPTIONAL BULLS FOR SALE
Chris Theimer, Manager
Exceptional Simmental Bulls
and Fancy Genetic Packages
540-992-1112
3691 S. Middle Rd., Quicksburg, VA 22847 • (540) 335-1885 • [email protected]
Visit www.shenandoahvalleysimmentals.com to view bull videos
Home of “the keepin’ kind”
The Dark Side Of Veganism
Dan Murphy
There’s been plenty of chatter over the numbers game that
vegan activists like to play trying
to convince themselves and their
followers that hordes of people
are eager to jump onto the noanimal-foods-or-products bandwagon. As citizens of an affluent,
highly developed, post-modern
society, we have that luxury. We
have the luxury of choosing to go
vegan, a choice unavailable to billions of people elsewhere on the
planet. We shouldn’t demonize
such a benefit; we should instead
be cognizant of, and grateful for,
the privileged status of being
able to forego the consumption of
animal food, should we decide to
do so. But I would go further and
argue that veganism is far worse
than a mere curiosity, a plaything
with which privileged people like
to experiment. I would argue that
the vegan lifestyle is wasteful,
selfish and irresponsible.
Harsh? Not at all, not if one
honestly dissects not just the
dietary dictates but the environmental and socio-economic
consequences that would result
if billions of people were to go
vegan. Assuming we can all
agree that with seven billion-plus
people now alive on Earth, the
hunter-gather lifestyle is no longer viable. Those billions of souls
have to be fed through agricultural activity. Without being able
to use land where precipitation is
unpredictable, where soils are too
unproductive or growing seasons
are too short to raise the crops
vegan advocates insist we live
on, humanity would lose a huge
percentage of its overall food
productivity, not to mention the
loss of billions of tons of animal
manure vital to maintaining the
fertility of the acreage that is suitable for conventional farming.
I say its selfish demanding that
people everywhere go veggie for
it would deprive millions of people of the foods, the culture and
the lifestyle that have sustained
them for millennia. The nomadic
herding tribes of sub-Saharan
Africa, the native people of the
Arctic regions, the aboriginal
inhabitants across Polynesia
as but a few examples — all of
them would have to somehow
import most of their food from
afar (as if that would even be
possible), or abandon both their
HUCKLEBERRY BEEF
Production Cow Sale
1st Saturday each December
Commercial bull sales
Each spring
Out of AI sires & dams
All home bred & raised
Our young stock program makes
the difference.
For further information call:
Curtis Sowers @ 540-230-6957
Randall Nester @ 540-392-1826
Mark Sowers @ 540-230-0177
homelands and their lifestyles.
Such a development would be
hugely traumatic, but the selfishness of the vegan philosophy is
so profound that most of its disciples never even consider such a
scenario, much less express any
remorse that their extremist ideas
might actually cause more harm
than good. It’s all about making
them feel good about their moral
superiority, not about relating to
people elsewhere who aren’t in a
position to even consider giving
up all animal foods.
If the global food systems currently straining on the brink of
unsustainability are to be remedied, the challenge cannot be met
without the synergies provided
by animal agriculture. We’ve
temporarily ratcheted up the
“efficiency” of modern farming
via massive inputs of (relatively)
cheap fossil fuels. Whether that
can be maintained short-term
— much less over generations
to come — is very much up for
debate. What isn’t debatable is
the reality that all of characteristics of an ideal food production
system — efficiency, localization,
biodiversity — cannot be implemented without incorporating
livestock into the equation. Nothing converts sunlight into calories
more efficiently than livestock,
and the capture and utilization of
by-products from those animals
are central to creating a farming
model that optimizes both inputs
and outputs.
In the end, choosing veganism
is akin to choosing celibacy, in
three important ways. First, it is a
highly personal decision, one that
cannot by any stretch of logic be
considered prescriptive for society
at large.
Second, although there is merit
to both choices, neither can be
sold to any but a tiny minority of
people, no matter how vigorously
its advocates proselytize the rest
of us. And third, the basis for both
concepts runs directly counter to
the most profound biological imperatives affecting every species
on this earth. Only people willing
to voluntarily eschew reproduction, or those who consciously try
to separate themselves from the
very ecosystem that sustains us,
could embrace either celibacy or
veganism. Neither choice is natural or normal. Are there aspects of
the vegan and/or celibate lifestyle
that have merit? Of course, and
some would contend that they
represent a higher moral stance.
I’d argue that if either concept had
gained more than the tiniest sliver
of participant’s way back when,
none of us would even be here
today to argue about them.
We Feed What We Sell
Economically priced and more feed value for your money.
PERFORMANCE FEEDS
YOUR PROFITABLE FEED SOLUTION
*16% Performance Extra
*Soyhull Pellets
*Corn Gluten Pellets
Coleman Farm Supply
Appomattox, VA
434-352-7298
G E Feeds
George Winn
Gretna, VA,
434-489-4458
Lucas Farms
Joe Lucas
Blacksburg, VA
540-449-5997 - Cell
540-552-5997
*14% Performance Plus
*13% Commodity Pellet
*Bull Developer
Hominy, Cottonseed Hulls,
Peanut Hulls and other feed
ingredients
Find the Dealer nearest you:
Moneta Farm &
Home Center
Stuart Woodford
Moneta, VA
540-297-5558
Crop Production
Services
David Brankley
South Hill, VA
434-447-7603
PB Farms
Laurel Fork, VA
(704) 425-7114
Don Price
Crewe, VA
434-294-1772
R.G. Cattle Company
Randell Gearhart
Check, VA
540-651-8626
A.W. Tomlin
Madison Heights, VA
434-316-3054
Frank Walton
Amherst, VA • 434-944-1830
West End Feeds
Chris Umberger
Wytheville, VA
276-620-1821 • 294-1772
Spangler Farm Supply
Scottsville, VA
434-286-3200
Call toll free 888/777-5912
Family owned and operated
Mark Pendleton
Jason Pendleton
HuckleberryCattle.com
Non bagged bulk feed available for delivery
• MUST order a min. of 3 tons
• Call for pricing and scheduling
45 Years of Profitable Stocker Cattle Operation
Quality Breeding Stock you can count on.
Visit www.performancefeedco.com
1145 WILLS RIDGE RD, FLOYD, VA 24091

February 2014

Transcription

Similar documents

Wisconsin TEAM BEEF - Wisconsin Beef Council

http://pantip.com/topic/33863645 3 July,2015 - tsubohachi

mini expansion fodder for the cattle components rules

student buffet - Botanas Restaurant

Burly_Beef_-_bullseye quiz_7

Beef Bourguignon

BEEF BREEDS

BACKGROUNDER - Canadian Beef Industry Conference

CATTLE TRAXX

Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Northlands is one of Canada`s oldest