Search results for query: *

Depends on your goals. Sorghum Sudan and Pearl Millet will produce more pounds of beef per acre....but Im a polyculture guy, and like to plant mixes. Add to those some sunn hemp, crabgrass, and a little buckwheat and your have yourself some salad bar beef. The cowpea stockpiles reasonable...

If you don't mind moderating growth a touch, Buffalo Creek T189 nice n easy has been a home run here for daughters with good hair, feet, and udders. Easy fleshing...but not overly big. My 54p daughter had a little too much power for my program and fell out. T189 and his son, Red Hill Medal...

Considering doing guided hunting in future...but presently nothing passive. Row crops, cattle, and timber. Waiting for the carbon markets to mature before stepping in them.

Good luck Mike. Let us know how the breeding goes. Being from the SE, hair coat is an interest to me.

Agree with the above comments. Many of them make good terminal grass finishing type offspring. Fewer bloodlines will leave you daughters that might make it to your your grandma pen. This is admittedly more second hand than first hand experience...but I've been in quite a few herds.

Been planting annual mixes for the past 9 years down here in GA, experimenting with different blends. Most of my annual acreage is clean till that I oscillate between summer and winter annuals, so take my recommendations with that consideration. I've tried overseeding bahia/bermuda pastures...

Echo has a fascinating pedigree. I believe the story goes that he hid the bull because he looked like such a dud because of inbreeding depression, but yet served his purpose well. Larry knew what he was doing. I believe the colored tags were based on his three groups: strictly maternal...

While I didn't know Larry personally, I know of his program and the influence it has had on the good black cattle left in the country. My close friend Ed Oliver visited Larry one time (I believe they had developed a mutual admiration through correspondence) and they become such good friends...

Old line Angus cattle prefer the environment that they were bred in for a 100 years (temperate climate with mild summers), but if you select them long enough they will adjust. My registered black program are adapting and wean solid calves that finish and marble on grass, but I am also cross...

I will caveat my statement by saying that I have limited first hand experience with Ohlde bred cattle, although I own a few. His name in a pedigree will represent from a true maternal style cow (OCC Homer) to verging on the terminal without huge frame (OCC Anchor). My bloodlines come through...

I get about 50 sale catalogues a year. First thing I do is open them up and see how many cattle in the breeding tree have their own names in the pedigrees. I throw 45 or more directly in the trash. Besides buying the Senepol bulls a couple years ago for a cross breeding program, haven't...

I've had the privilege of traveling to quite a few herds across the country. I love seeing folks operations, talking genetics and forages, and taking home some nugget. Having imported cattle over the years, I have certainly had some successes, but nothing will move your herd forward like...

Mr. Lowe and his son are honest, no-nonsense, hard working folks, and breed with purpose and vision. I haven't sampled their genetics, but have spent a day touring their herd. They are one of the few breeders left carrying forth the original Graham Angus genetics in those pedigrees. I would...

From my experience, the farther you go back, the less likely those cows will work below a certain latitude. They don't appreciate South Ga. We've had a tick of George of Swiftbrook and Ballot of Belladrum, Jipsey Early, Dunloise Red Native and some older Wye bulls 1-2 generations back in the...

Girls are quite consistent and look nice. Gizmon, how do you develop your heifers post weaning?

SA....tell me about muscle bound? Was this what created what you describe as stiff legged in hips and rear legs? And is this the reason you got rid of the bulls? What did you cross the bulls with?

Composite means that a lot of the heterosis has already been captured. If you keep outcrossing you will continue to expand the possibilities of what happens at every mating. I'd breed to a FB and save daughters and see how they do. I really like a bull I've bought a few daughters on from...

Mostly have bull pics because that's what I'm marketing typically...but I'll snap some next time I can.

The answer probably depends on what other traits you are trying to promote, and how you market your cattle. Tell us more.