Beef Cattle Browsing Archives

Beef Cattle Browsing is an electronic newsletter published by Texas AgriLife Extension, Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. This newsletter is a free service and is available to anyone interested in beef cattle.

Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist Emeritus

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  • April 2012
    • What is Lean, Finely Textured Beef?
    • Developing Heifers -- Cost Vs. Performance
    • Are Methane Emissions Something New?
    • Effects of Aging on Tenderness of Beef Rounds
    • Do Rankings of RFI Stay the Same Across Time?
    • Grassfed Beef Conference
    • Recovery of Native Grasses?
  • February 2012
    • January 1 Cattle Numbers
    • Effect of Fat Content on Consumer Satisfaction
    • Factors Affecting Price of Video-Auction Calves
    • No Red Meat = Healthy Eating?
    • Effect of Initial Prostaglandin on Fixed-Time AI Pregnancy
    • Effect of Breed/Type on Live and Carcass Characteristics
  • January 2012
    • National Beef Tenderness Survey
    • Measuring Feed Efficiency
    • How Do Producers Use Veterinarians?
    • Beef Production in Australia
    • Effect of Level of Cow Supplement on Calf Performance
    • Beef Cattle Registrations
    • Efficiency and Feeding Behavior on Growing and Finishing Rations
    • Brand Re-registration
  • December 2011
    • GIPSA Changes Blocked
    • Environment vs Beef Production: 1977 to 2007
    • Effect of Lactic Acid on Dark-Cutting Beef
    • Another Market for Choice Beef
    • Does Rectal Palpation Affect Pregnancy Loss?
    • Effect of Protein Supplementation on Low-quality Forages: Cool-season vs Warm-season
    • Is Cool Dead?
  • November 2011
    • Feedyard Profit
    • Genetics of Sustained Reproductive Success
    • Comparison of Two Treatments for Fixed-Time AI
    • Hair Coat Shedding in Angus Cows
    • Distillers Grains for Growing Cattle
    • Genomics to Predict Residual Feed Intake (RFI), ADG, and Dry Matter Intake (DMI)
    • Beef Cows: 2008 vs 1920
  • September 2011
    • U.S. Beef Exports
    • Influence of Carcass Quality Grade on Palatability
    • Effect of Days of Preconditioning on Performance
    • Genomic Testing - Where is the Value?
    • Residual Feed Intake vs Beef Characteristics
    • Effect of Glucogenic Precursors on Reproduction
    • FSIS Rejects Irradiation Proposal
  • August 2011
    • Water: It's Not Just Quantity
    • Effects of RFI Efficiency in Replacement Females
    • Effect of Zilmax® on Retail Cut Yield
    • U.S. Health Management Practices
    • Developing Heifers on Two Roughage Sources
    • Effect of Climatic Conditions on Calving Incidence
    • Beef Reproduction Task Force Resources
    • Factors Affecting Price on Video Auctions
  • July 2011
    • Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course
    • Brucellosis Testing to be Stopped
    • Effect of Behavior on Performance
    • Effect of Grazing System on Production and Profit
    • Zilmax for Cull Cows
    • Record-Keeping and ID of U.S. Beef Cow Herds
    • Genetic Relationships Between Marbling, Intramuscular Fat, Scrotal Circumference, and Pregnancy
    • Is the Color of Cattle Changing
  • June 2011
    • Drought and Vitamin A
    • Predicting Breed From DNA Analysis
    • Relationships Between Efficiency and Heifer Body Composition and Fertility
    • Health and Culling Practices of U.S. Cow Herds
    • Effect of Wheat Pasture During Breeding on Heifer Reproduction
    • Economics of Preconditioning Calves Before Sale
    • Effect of Restricted Nutrition on Long-Term Cow Performance
    • Has Beef Production Become More Efficient?
    • Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course
  • May 2011
    • Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course
    • Grassfed Beef Conference
    • Heifer Development: Drylot or Not?
    • Effect of Sorghum-Sudangrass Variety and Stocking Rate on Growing Performance
    • Online Nutrition Videos
    • Comparisons of Two Programs for Fixed-Time AI of Heifers
    • Myths about Meat
    • Online Non-Ambulatory Cattle Management Training Program
  • April 2011
    • Fetal Programming of Muscle and Fat Development
    • Prediction of Fed Cattle Traits Using Genomic Techniques
    • Mortality of Beef Calves and Cattle in the US
    • DDGS for Supplementing Beef Heifers
    • Use of Rumen Temperature Boluses to Detect Disease
    • Fertilize or Supplement?
    • Sodium Consumption in the US
  • March 2011
    • Performance of Calves Sired by Hereford, Angus, Brahman, Boran, Tuli, and Belgian Blue
    • Supermarket Consumer Trends
    • Rumen Temperature, Parturition, and Estrus
    • Cowherd Supplemental Feeding Practices
    • Effect of Sorting and Production System for Finishing Steers
    • Effect of Calf Separation on AI Pregnancy Rate
    • Climax Tax on Red Meat?
  • January 2011
    • What's Ahead for the Beef Cattle Industry?
    • Is Efficiency the Same While Growing and Finishing?
    • Confinement vs. Pasture and Traditional vs. Natural Finishing of Early-Weaned Calves
    • Red and Processed Meat vs. Breast Cancer
    • Effect of Hide Color and Sex Condition on Carcass Traits and Value
    • Effect of Body Condition and Forage Type on Cow Performance
    • Effect of Liver Abnormalities on Carcass Merit
  • December 2010
    • Stress-Free Cattle Handling
    • Trichomoniasis Regulations Changes
    • Effect of Sure Breed-Type on Steer Progeny Carcasses
    • Consumer Perceptions of Safety of Beef and Other Animal Protein
    • Feeding Wet Distillers Grains with High or Low Forage
    • Factors Affecting Price Paid for Central-Tested Bulls
    • Genetics of Calving Day and Age at First Calving
    • Effect of Red and Processed Meat on Prostate Cancer
  • November 2010
    • National Meat Case Study, 2010
    • Colostrum vs. Colostrum Replacements/Supplements
    • Factors Affecting Certified Angus Beef Acceptance
    • Progestin-Based Systems for Estrus Synchronization
    • Comparison of Enhanced Cow, Non-Enhanced Cow, and USDA Select Beef Cuts
    • How Important is Feed Efficiency to Bull Buyers?
    • Who Do Consumers Think is the Most Credible Source for Information on Animal Care?
  • October 2010
    • Red Meat and Colon Cancer
    • Factors Affecting Beef Cow Economic Returns
    • Welfare Standards for Beef Cattle Production
    • Dried Distillers Grains for Growing Calves
    • Fetal Loss from Pregnancy
    • Size, Behavior, and Reproduction of Different Genetic Types of Heifers
    • Projected Profit from Beef Cows
  • September 2010
    • Eating Meat Caused our Brains to Enlarge?
    • Carcass Traits of Tropically-Adapted Breeds
    • Current Cooking Habits of Americans
    • Effects of Vitamin E on Beef Cows
    • It's Grain Feeding of Cattle that Causes E. Coli Problems
    • Energy Source Vs. Cow Performance
    • Effect of Sire RFI on Progeny Performance
    • Mid-Year Cattle Numbers
  • July 2010
    • Are Organic Foods Nutritionally Better?
    • Heterosis Effects on Live Performance and Carcass Merit
    • Distillers Grains: Corn Vs. Sorghum
    • Effect of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) in AI For Cows
    • Temperament Vs. Performance
    • Effect of Meat-Based Nutrients on Cancer Risk
    • Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course
  • June 2010
    • Grain-Fed or Grass-Fed Ground Beef: Which is Healthier?
    • How do Cattle Change During Feeding?
    • Variables Affecting Ovarian Status
    • Breed Effects on Live Performance and Carcass Merit
    • USDA Yield Grade: Problems and Shortcomings?
    • Effect of Hide Color on Calf Price
    • An Index to Assess Environmental Stress in Animal
  • May 2010
    • McDonald's and Free-Range Eggs
    • Effect of Zilmax® on Composition and Palatibility
    • Long-term Performance of Cows in Arid Conditions
    • Grass-Fed vs Grass-Supplemented vs Feedlot
    • Reproductive Tract Score to Predict Fertility and Production
    • Genetics of Heifer Rebreeding
    • Natural vs Conventional Feeding
    • Should we return to "Greener" Production Systems?
  • April 2010
    • United Nations Report on Livestock Emissions of Greenhouse Gas Found Faulty
    • Normal vs. Late Weaning
    • Heritability of Bovine Respiratory Disease
    • Effect of Biological Type on Postpartum Activity
    • Fertilize, Supplement or Neither?
    • Is Feeding Behavior Related to Efficiency?
    • When is the Best Time to Inseminate Cows?
    • New Animal Care and Handling Guidelines
  • March 2010
    • National ID Changes
    • Effects of Selection for Intramuscular Fat
    • Effect of Protein Level and Type on Performance and Carcass
    • Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
    • Shortening Calving Seasons
    • Can Embryonic Loss be Reduced?
    • Relationship Between Scrotal Circumference and Other Traits
  • February 2010
    • Too Many Trees?
    • Effect of Disease on Carcass Traits
    • Where Did European Cattle Come From?
    • Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Beef Quality
    • Effects of Inbreeding in a Closed Angus Herd
    • Relationship Between Residual Feed Intake and Production and Carcass Traits
    • Red Meat and Cancer
  • January 2010
    • Predicted Effects of Climate-Change Legislation
    • Are Scotal Circumference and Marbling Related?
    • Effect of Zinc Treatment on Auction-Barn Calves
    • Genetic Relationships Among Weights at Various Ages
    • Effects of Zilmax® on Beef Characteristics
    • Grass-Fed Beef Reference
    • Is Whole Genome Selection the Silver Bullet?
  • November 2009
    • Balancing Production and Quality
    • Cow-Calf Economics
    • Effect of Weaning Time on Immunity
    • Characteristics of Mexican Beef
    • Feed Efficiency of Different Genetic Types
    • Does Location in a Truck Affect Sickness and Performance?
    • Effect of Dam Nutrition on Heifer Growth and Reproduction
    • Current Breed Registrations
  • October 2009
    • Effect of Cap-and-Trade on Agriculture Financial Profiles
    • How do Growth Technologies Affect Economics and Palatability?
    • Does Processed Meat Cause Brain Cancer?
    • Bale or Stockpile?
    • Is "Excessive" Ribeye Area Always Bad?
    • Economics of AI VS Natural Service
    • Effect of Genetic-Environmental Interaction on Selection
    • Cool in Not so Cool
  • September 2009
    • Markets for Natural Beef
    • Financial Return Vs Calving Season
    • Conventional Vs Non-conventional Beef Production
    • Once Feisty Always Feisty
    • Genetic Selection for Higher Weaning Weight Without Increasing Birth Weight
    • Estrogenic Compounds in Treated Wastewater
    • Weaning Vs Yearling Scrotal Circumference
    • America's Food - What do Consumers Think and Want?
  • August 2009
    • Is Organic Food More Nutritional?
    • Effect of Body Size on Grazing Behavior and Energy Expended
    • Factors Affecting Feeding Performance and Carcass Merit
    • National ID - Through Another Route?
    • Extruded-Expelled Cottonseed Meal for Beef Cows
    • Angus-Sired Vs Wagyu-Sired Calves
    • The Battle Goes On
  • July 2009
    • Does Meat Cause Breast Cancer?
    • Comparison of F1 Brahman, Boran, and Tuli Cows
    • Relationship of Eye White and Temperament
    • High-tannin Sorghum for Cattle
    • Factors Affecting Estrous Behavior
    • Impact of Water Troughs on use of Riparian Areas
    • Whole Soybeans for Beef Cows
    • ID for Export?
  • June 2009
    • No Age Limit for Beef Trade?
    • Effect of Time of Vaccination at the Feedyard
    • Effect of Calf Weaning Age on Cow Performance
    • Are Hybrid Corns Different?
    • Economic Impact of Pregnancy Testing, Bull Testing and a Shortened Breeding Season
    • Effect of Body Condition Score on Heifer Performance
    • Annual Beef Cattle Short Course
    • Is National Animal ID Dead?
  • May 2009
    • Quality Grade -- Has it Really Declined?
    • EPA Renewable Fuel Standards
    • Calf-Fed Vs. Yearlings
    • Benefit-Cost Analysis of NAIS
    • Cow-Calf Management Practices
    • Full- Vs. Limit-Feeding Replacement Heifers
    • Publication on New Trich Regulations
    • Remote-Control Herding
  • April 2009
    • Searching for Curve Benders
    • Effect of BRD on Feedlot and Carcass Value
    • What Happened to the Choice-Select Spread?
    • Effects of Zilmax on Feeding and Carcass
    • Impact of Ethanol on Food Price and the Environment
    • What Drives Demand for Beef?
  • March 2009
    • New Trichomoniasis Regulations
    • Residual Feed Intake Inheritance
    • Growing Rations Vs. Performance and Carcass
    • Systems for Artificial Insemination
    • Effects of Cow Wintering Systems
    • Effects of Endophyte-Infected Fescue on Sperm
    • Beef Imports Vs. Exports
  • February 2009
    • Ground Beef - What & How Much
    • Early Weaning vs. Cow Performance & Economics
    • Naturally Raised Livestock
    • Energy Requirements of Bos Indicus
    • Cow Numbers & Herds Decline
    • Effect of Biobullets on Carcass Factors
    • What's the Future of Ethanol?
  • January 2009
    • COOL Marches On
    • Respiratory Disease vs. Feedlot & Carcass Performance
    • Analyzing the 2005 National Beef Quality Audit
    • Long-Term Genetic Selection Response
    • Implants vs. Genetic Potential
    • So, You Want a Bull to Add 10 Pounds of Weaning Weight?
  • December 2008
    • Is Grass-Fed Beef Better?
    • Growth, Milk or Both?
    • Effect of Distillers Grains on Odor & E. Coli
    • Estimating Age of Cattle
    • Human "Mad Cow" in Texas?
    • Effect of Selection for Growth on Body Composition
    • PETA & the Falling Stock Market
  • November 2008
    • "Curly Calf" Syndrome
    • Effect of Source & Weaning Management on Performance
    • Calf & Finished Price Spreads
    • Indirect Genetic Selection for Efficiency
    • Brucellosis Free
    • Diversity is Good
    • Animal ID Outside the U.S. 
  • October 2008
    • Product of Where?
    • Use of Human Growth Hormone for Timed AI
    • Animal ID - The Canadian Experience
    • Marbling vs. Management
    • Cow Numbers, Beef Production, & Efficiency
    • Effects of Feedlot Exposure to PI-BVD Individuals
    • Angus & Hereford AI
  • September 2008
    • COOL - What Proof Might You Need?
    • Genetic Selection for Calving Ease
    • Effects of Supplementation Frequence in Brahman Crosses
    • Use of Food Labels by Consumers
    • A "Slick" Gene?
    • Calving vs. Time of Feeding
    • Cattle are More Than Just Beef
  •  August 2008
    • COOL is About Here
    • Programs to Synchronize Estrus in Heifers
    • 2005 National Beef Quality Audit: Industry Perceptions
    • Estimating Crude Protein
    • A Vaccine for E. Coli?
    • Gin Trash & Peanut Hulls For Growing Cattle
    • Beef Exports Expected to Increase
  • July 2008
    • Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course
    • The Power of Meat
    • Effect of Ethanol Coproducts on Pregnant Heifers
    • Timing of Artificial Insemination
    • Post-weaning Growth on Pasture
    • Beef Cow Herd Size
    • Health vs Production and Product
    • Temperament vs Feed Efficiency
  • June 2008
    • Southern Calves Are Sorry
    • Treating Dry Beef Cows For Mastitis
    • Carcass Quality Bonuses Have Decreased
    • Pasture vs. Drylot Backgrounding
    • Why Do Carcasses Fail to Meet High-Quality Standards?
    • Genetic Effects on Heifer Rebreeding
  • May 2008
    • Corn-based Distillers Grains - What is the Future?
    • Effect of Body Condition on Reproduction
    • Forecasting Heat Stress in Cattle
    • Calving Season & Weaning Age vs. Maternal Performance
    • Factors Affecting Bull Breeding Performance
    • Round Bale Storage Method vs. Nutrient Content & Cost
    • Future of Beef Production
  • April 2008
    • Calf Performance From Six Sire Breeds
    • Can An Animal's Feelings Be Measured
    • Intensive Early Grazing of Growing Cattle on Rangeland
    • Forage Availability vs. Animal Performance
    • Cost of Gain vs. Cost of Cattle
    • E. Coli vs. Grain Processing, Fecal Starch, and Fecal pH
    • Is the Cattle Cycle Gone?
  • March 2008
    • National Market Cow & Bull Beef Quality Audit
    • Weaning Methods
    • NIR Prediction of Beef Tenderness
    • Preweaning Gain, Milk Production, & Udder Conformation
    • Forage Selectivity by Grazing Cattle
    • Which Beef is Greener?
  • February 2008
    • NAIS Progress & Targets
    • Predicting Heat Stress in Fed Cattle
    • Trends in Genetic Selection
    • Effects of OptaflexxTM on Palatability
    • DNA Paternity Identification in Multiple-Sire Herds
    • Twinning in Cattle
    • Efficiency vs. Feeding Behavior
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