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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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What Is Inside a $Value
You have seen these in a sale catalog. A dollar sign, a couple of letters, and a number. $M 72. $W 58. $C 210. They sit next to the EPDs and they look like a…
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The Milk Number on a Bull That Will Never Give Milk
You are standing at the sale looking at a bull. His page has a row of numbers, and one of them is labeled Milk. Stop on that for a second. That bull will never give…
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Why You Cannot Push One Number Without Moving Another
Say you decide growth is what you want. Bigger calves, more pounds to sell. So you go through the sale book and buy the highest yearling-weight bulls you can find, year after year, and you…
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Every Number on the Bull Page
You are leaning on the fence with a sale book open, staring at a wall of columns: CED, BW, WW, Marb, $M. You know some of them. The rest just dare you to guess. This…
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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?…
