Performance Bull Sale Draws Standing-Room-Only Crowd
Average price in the latest Performance Bull Sale hit the $3,678 mark, down about $500 from a sale about six months prior.
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Average price in the latest Performance Bull Sale hit the $3,678 mark, down about $500 from a sale about six months prior.
MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — Forty-four performance and genomically tested bulls averaged $3,678 on Oct. 25 at the Springfield Livestock Marketing Center, said University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Eldon Cole.
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Researchers at University of Missouriâs Southwest Research Center are inviting beef producers to take part in a program to identify beef cows that use feed efficiently. MU Extension researchers will mine data from the GrowSafe system to help producers select breeding stock cows that eat less than other cows while producing calves with similar growth, says Reagan Bluel, interim superintendent of Southwest Center, an MU research farm in Lawrence County. Currently, most systems measure feed efficiency by pens. The GrowSafe system tracks individual feed intake and weight gain. Cows that eat ...