The wealthy seed stock men and women who continue to produce cattle without reproductive and maintenance qualities are keeping the beef and dairy industry alive as it is with their money. The quality, production and style of seed stock shows up at the commercial level in about two years after the purchase of a bull. Breeding for carcass and milk requires out crossing within a breed without regard to other important factors. It is a must to know your cattle so you can match and mix the gene pools and make breeding for reproduction and maintenance a priority. Breeding for reproduction and maintenance automatically gives you the carcass and milk needed.
Hybrid corn has thirty percent less quality than open pollinated corn.
Beef and dairy cows have been relieved of thirty percent of their reproductive responsibility in the last twenty-five years. Thanks to hybrid breeding. When you lose early maturity, reproduction and maintenance suffers most, quality leaves and production and performance are on the wrong side of twelve months. Big cattle come at the expense of late maturity. Late maturity depresses reproduction, quality and production and increases maintenance.