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and make decisions on cows to cull, heifers to retain as herd replacements, and whether to keep or cull herd bulls. Some 10,000 calves have been (or will be) officially weighed and graded by the Virginia Beef Cattle Improvement Association on the farms of its members. Accurate performance records will be a valuable tool to these cattlemen in improving their herds. For cattlemen who are not BCLA members, there is still a lot in the way of improvement that can be gained through weights and grades taken at weaning. Calves can be identified to point out good and poor producing dams. A better job of selecting replacement heifers can be done, and certainly a more accurate job of culling moneylosing cows can be accomplished.
Any cow that has not produced a calf valuable enough at weaning to pay all expenses of keeping her plus a profit to the cattleman should go to the butcher and be replaced by a heifer from the top end. Also, any cow which turns up open when pregnancy tested after calves are weaned should get a tour to the butcher pen. The older, faster gaining
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