The Casual Cattle Conversations Podcast: The Value of Crossbreeding in a Modern Economy
Thursday, January 9, 2025
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The Value of Crossbreeding in a Modern Economy
January 6, 2025 | Written By Shaye Koester
The challenge of navigating input costs is a familiar one to ranchers across the country. While there are numerous approaches to managing inputs, one that can’t be ignored is genetic selection. Genetic selection impacts efficiency, longevity, and performance in your cow herd and calf crop. It’s the foundation of your herd and operation.
A proven genetic selection strategy cow-calf producers can leverage to increase the value of cows and calves while increasing efficiency is strategic crossbreeding. Crossbreeding can be beneficial for operations of various sizes with different marketing goals. However, ranchers must have a similar mindset about crossbreeding to be successful no matter how different their operations are....
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