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
Quad Calves Sell
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In February of last year, Stavick Simmental near Veblen, S.D. welcomed the birth of quadruplet calves—a rare event that Mike Stavick describes as extremely lucky. Remarkably, these calves thrived and made history again this year when they were sold through the ranch’s sale ring. The odds of a cow giving birth to four healthy bull calves are extraordinarily low, estimated by some to be just 1 in 179.2 million. Having those calves mature into breeding animals makes the occurrence even more unusual. “I don’t know that there has ever been a set of quad bulls sold at a sale...