Brangus-Cross Wins HLSR Carcass Contest

The International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) is excited to announce that a Brangus-cross was named Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) Carcass Contest Champion on April 25. Jordan Adams, a high school junior of Clear Creek FFA, in League City, Texas, exhibited the Brangus and Charolais crossbred steer. Brent Cromwell purchased the steer’s sire, DDD…

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Some Thoughts on Body Condition Scoring of Cows

by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Livestock Specialist Joe C. Paschal, PhD. As far as technologies go, body condition scoring is one of the most useful and least expensive. No computers, no scales – heck, you don’t even have to pen your cows to apply it. Although body condition was certainly used before the 1960s, I…

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