The Cattle Business Weekly
For cattlemen, by cattlemen is this podcast bringing you the latest in cattle industry headlines straight from the news desk of The Cattle Business Weekly in South Dakota. It's a dose of what's happening in markets, on the ranch and in Washington, D.C. It's news about everything that impacts a cattle operation's bottomline (aka profit). Listen to us in the feed truck, on the way to a cattle sale or on the porch with a beer! We promise you won't go away without having learned something.
The Cattle Business Weekly
American Gelbvieh Association Releases New EPDs
The American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) has released three new economic selection indexes and four new EPDs that are now available to all AGA members and stakeholders. “AGA is excited to introduce these new selection indexes to commercial cattlemen. They combine relevant traits and applicable pricing information to create tools that will assist producers in finding animals that best fit their ranch profitability model. The new EPDs bolster AGA’s impressive suite of traits that can be implemented by both AGA members and commercial producers using Gelbvieh and Balancer® genetics,” said Harold Bertz, AGA executive director. Economic Selection Indexes The new indexes...