#235 – Different For All the Right Reasons
Someone recently asked me, "What's different about Pharo Cattle Company®?" Here it is in a nutshell: For over 35 years, Kit Pharo has been selecting seedstock for real-world traits — moderate frame, grass efficiency, calving ease, and fertility. Meanwhile, the status-quo beef industry continues to...
#235 – Different For All the Right Reasons
Someone recently asked me, "What's different about Pharo Cattle Company®?" Here it is in a nutshell: For over 35 years, Kit Pharo has been selecting seedstock for real-world traits — moderate frame, grass efficiency, calving ease, and fertility. Meanwhile, the status-quo beef industry continues to...
#224 – Maternal or Terminal
Our pre-sale speaker challenged producers to choose between terminal and maternal traits when selecting seed stock. It's a choice that determines who gets the profit. Listen to Jared Luhman interview PJ Budler in this Herd Quitter® podcast. Click to read the full...
#223 – One Trait: Masculinity
There is a ton of information that can help you choose your next PCC® herd sire. Most of it is available on our unique quick sort program. However, if you could only choose one trait, this would be it: Masculinity is indicative of several other traits that are vital...
#222 – Head in the Right Direction
My brother's night time trip got much longer when it was discovered they were headed in the wrong direction. Are you moving your cow herd toward Grass-efficiency and Low-maintenance? Your bull buying decisions will determine if you are headed in the right direction....
#221 – Heat Tolerant Bulls
If you live where the weather gets hot and humid, you may experience loss of production because of it. PCC® has a great selection of heat tolerant composite bulls in our spring sales: Texas April 7, Missouri April 13, and Colorado April 20. Click to read the full...
#220 – Maternal Traits
Here's some things to consider when buying a bull: What maternal traits are you building as you add replacements to your herd? Here's a few that translate directly to your bottom line. Click to read the full transcript If you raise your own replacement heifers, you...
#219 – Bull Buying Tips
Bulls will be expensive this year, so why not spend your money on one that takes your program in the right direction? Click to read the full transcript If you are buying bulls this spring, you will probably pay more than you ever have in your life. However, keep in...
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What’s Most Important?
I subscribe to many status quo beef publications because I like to see what members of the status quo herd are thinking and doing. After looking through several beef publications and breed journals, it appears that nearly all bull producers are more concerned about growth, carcass traits, and how an animal looks on the end of a halter rope than anything else. Real-world producers, on the other hand, know fertility is by far the most important economic trait....