LIMOUSIN
Today
Limousin Today – Profit Tomorrow • Official Publication of NALF
®
August 2017 • Vol. 1, No. 11
Features and News Features and News, cont.
Hunt Limousin Ranch Named
BIF Seedstock Producer of Year......................................12 Can Storage of Vaccine Affect its Efficacy? ................33
Ochsner Presented BIF Ambassador Award..............14
Adopting Technology through
AI to Make Genetic and Profit Gains.............................16
Strategic Use of Heterosis................................................18
Factors Affecting Feed Yard Profitability.....................20
BeefTalk: Wean Early and Save
25 Percent of Pasture Forage..........................................24
Transferred Registrations
Add Value to Seedstock Purchases...............................26
LIMS - Whole Herd Data Submission
by Progressive Breeders....................................................29
Earn $25 or More per head
from Preconditioning.........................................................30
Considerations of Buying Feeder Calves.....................34
Superior Livestock Auction’s
Early 2017 Premiums Released.......................................37
Op-Ed: Response to a Vexing Cattle Market..............40
Adding Value to Feeder Calves.......................................41
In Every Issue
NALF Contacts.........................................................................4
Limousin Happenings....................................................... 43
Sales & Events....................................................................... 44
Advertiser Index................................................................... 47
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and NALF members to buyers and stakeholders of the beef industry.
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