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no steers for beef.” The editorial further states, “Experiments by U. S. Agricultural College researchers at Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Ohio State, and Colorado State have offered some proof that bulls gain faster on less feed while producing more salable meat with a lower fat content. There seems to be little difference in tenderness and flavor of bull and steer meat, and in some tests, judges even preferred bull beef.”
At Texas Tech, young bulls needed 100 pounds less feed,per 100 pounds gain than did steers; bulls gained 0.3 pounds more per day and made the same weight as steers on $20.00 less feed. Caution — While this is an appreciable difference, it represents only one experiment.
Newbill Miller reported reading of one corn belt feeder having only young bulb in his feed lot this winter.
All performance testing in computing adjusted daily gains decrease the actual average daily gains of bulls to a steer basif.
Then too, a local farmer once asked a former manager of ShenValley Meat Packers Co-op his choice of beef ... his answer, “a loin cut from a young bull.”
Imagine, if you can, our feeder calf sales advertising bulls and heifers in their offering. If no problems are uncovered by further bull-feeding research, this could come about.
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