As the spring selling season finally comes towards its end, Angus producers across Australia and New Zealand are already looking to their autumn offerings, so have you done everything youContinue reading “Angus ESSENTIALS – Setting yourself up for catalogue production”
Category Archives: Bull Buying
Understanding Structural Soundness EBVs
Two EBVs published in the TransTasman Angus Cattle Evaluation that are often not well understood are the EBVs relating to structural soundness, being Claw Set and Foot Angle EBVs. ThisContinue reading “Understanding Structural Soundness EBVs”
Weekly Genetics Review: Watch your feet
Spending time assessing the feet and leg structure of bulls ahead of sale can be one of the most effective long-term investments into a herd’s future.
The ability of bulls to move freely, and to achieve regular and repeated matings across several joining seasons directly impacts on a herd, not to mention providing a return on investment in the first instance.
AngusPRO Education Module – 16 September
The AngusPRO bull sales kicked off to a strong start this week, with Totaranui selling 82 bulls at an average of $3840 and Waitangi selling 78 bulls at an average of $3966.
The latest Angus ESSENTIALS webinar – running a successful AI program – has been hugely popular and it’s well worth taking the time to watch it in the full
Selecting Your Next Angus Bull
Choosing your bull is an important task, with many things to think about before you make your selections. Whether you are selecting bulls from an auction, a sale, or fromContinue reading “Selecting Your Next Angus Bull”
AngusPRO Education Module – 1 September
We’re just a fortnight away from the first of our yearling sales now and the catalogues are in the post. The sale catalogue page on our website is being updated daily as new additions come to hand, and the links to all the angus.tech sale listings are there also.
We thought this was a good time to take you back and recap some of the breeding fundamentals we’ve been looking at over the last 18 months, so there’s plenty of information for you to look at in your own time.
Angus ESSENTIALS – Angus SELECT
Angus SELECT is a suite of tools available for cattle breeders to drive improved profitability, by using the database to find Angus genetics most aligned with breeding goals and objectives.
AngusPRO Education Module – 15 August
Calving is in full swing for most of our AngusPRO members now, and with the use of products such as HD50k by Zoetis, we can learn so much about this next generation from a single DNA sample.
It’s certainly a busy time, with Waitangi and Totaranui kicking off the yearling sales on September 13th. The catalogues will be in your mailboxes any day but please make sure you contact individual studs directly if you’d like a catalogue from a stud you’re not on the regular database with.
Genetics: Cow weaning rate and its impact on production costs
Farm profitability is determined by multiple factors. In a beef breeding business, factors such as survival and growth of calves through to sale weight are considered among the major influences.
Critical to these two areas is cow weaning rate (CWR) which is defined as number of calves weaned per cow joined annually.
Utilising Angus genetics to bend the curve
The term “curve bender” has been loosely used in the industry for some time to explain the effect of selecting for increased growth while maintaining birth weight in breeding decisions.
The term refers to bucking the trend or the expected result when selecting just on growth, which given the correlation between growth traits would simply lead to heavier cattle from birth through to maturity.