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From a sale book to a short list
The sale book landed in your mailbox this week. A hundred bulls in it, maybe more. The sale starts at one o’clock Monday, and your coffee is already cold. You cannot lay eyes on a…
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Calving Ease and Picking a Heifer Bull
You lost one this spring. A first-calf heifer, up half the night, and by the time you got a chain on that calf it was too late for both of them. And the part that…
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Accuracy and the range behind it
You are leaning on the rail at a bull sale. Two bulls in the catalog both read +90 for the same weaning weight trait. On paper they are twins. But one is a proven herd…
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EPDs, Plain and Simple
This is a five-part series for a working cattleman who wants to read the numbers on a bull’s page and know what they mean, not just glance at them and hope. No schooling in math…
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The page of numbers nobody taught you to read
You are standing at a sale. The catalog is open, and every bull has a row of numbers after his name. Nobody ever sat you down and taught you to read them. So you do…
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Which $Value Fits Your Operation
Open a sale catalog and it is easy to do one wrong thing. You run your eye down the page, find the biggest dollar figure, and circle that bull. Bigger has to be better, right?…
