Find heifers who eat less, produce more
Mindy Ward EARLY EVALUATION: Researchers at the University of Missouri want to identify replacement heifers that take less money to feed but produce healthy calves. Cattle producers can enroll spring-born heifers in a program that uses GrowSafe technology to monitor feed intake. There is a nominal fee. Beef producers are being sought for GrowSafe system research at the University of Missouri. Dec 14, 2020 University of Missouri Extension researchers will mine data from the GrowSafe system to help producers select breeding stock cows that eat less while producing hea...
Source: farmprogress.com