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See if implants would work on your operation. This Progressive Cattle newsletter focuses on stocker management. Get some considerations on using implants, and learn four rules of stocker production. Blogger Jacob Geis shares a crazy calving story. Lastly, pick up some tips for starting stockers off right. 

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Understanding beef implants

James Gaspers for Progressive Cattle

Growth-promoting implants have been used in the beef cattle industry for decades. They serve to increase muscle accretion and market weight by increasing both daily gain and feed efficiency.

Research studying cattle growth and consumer safety is extensive. Prior to approval by the Food and Drug Administration, implants must meet stringent requirements in order to be deemed safe for consumers and animals. There cannot be implant residue in any edible tissues, and they cannot be toxic to cattle or cause mutations or cancerous growths.

Understand the food safety facts and how implants work.

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Estrus synchronization may be a worthwhile investment for cow-calf operators

 
There are many ways the beef industry has worked to improve efficiencies – reproduction technologies are certainly high among them. While an unfamiliar tool to many cow-calf operations, an estrus synchronization program offers many benefits to progressive producers willing to give it a try.

Stocker cattle sins and servitude

Andrew P. Griffith for Progressive Cattle

The stocker cattle business can be extremely rewarding when a producer follows all of the rules and devotes his or her time to the cattle purchased. The stocker cattle business can be extremely devastating if rules are not followed and the producer does not put in the time. What is this fool talking about? Give me a chance to explain, and I think it will all make sense in the end.

The rules of stocker cattle production: 1. buy them right, 2. keep them alive, 3. help them grow and 4. sell them better than they were bought. Producers who follow these four rules are champions of the cattle industry. Producers who find out they cannot follow these four rules generally do something else. However, to follow these four rules takes significant time, effort and often patience to be successful.

4 rules of stocker cattle production

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The great imbalance

calf pulling equipment Jake Geis for Progressive Cattle

Here in the Midwest, we are the kings of small talk. I would venture to guess, nowhere else in the world does weather comprise the beginning, main subject and closing matter of nearly every conversation a person has during the day. I have no idea what you folks in mild climates talk about – probably religion and politics.

But, even the ever-changing weather gets to be old news at times, and at that point people search for a new topic. Being a veterinarian, most folks want to ask how calving is going. I’m probably the worst person to ask, because unless it’s my own calves, everything I see is fairly horrible. If it wasn’t, why would they call me?

"When I cut into her side and grabbed feet like fence posts, I gasped."

Tips for manual and hydraulic squeeze chute safety

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Valuable starting tools for stocker supplements

stocker calves Progressive Cattle Editor David Cooper

The maintenance factor for steers and replacement females is a constant mathematical formula with several variables. The biggest final question: When am I going to supplement and what will I use?

Those factors were spelled out at the 2020 Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, held online in early August, in a presentation by Dr. Jason Banta on cow and stocker nutrition. Banta, an associate professor and Texas AgriLife Extension beef specialist, used several questions sent in by participants before and during the online presentation.

Five factors to help start stockers off right
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