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By \Y. H. Lyne Extcmlon Aim), Agriculture
Many times people wish for things but never want them enough to work towards getting them. Ray Cannon wanted a good herd of cattle and was willing to work toward just that.
In 1962 he decided BCIA was a too) which could help him get there. He joined the Virginia Beef j Cattle Improvement Association' and started getting performance records on his cows, the herd sires, and their offspring.
The first year he started he was at the bottom; or rather we’d hate to think of any herd being a poorer producing herd. That year his calves averaged: 1.56 lbs. Adjusted Daily Gain, 382 lbs. @ 205 days of age, typed 10.4 and indexed only 96, four points below the average in Virginia!
Since then Ray has brought the [herd up the performance ladder a rung at a time. How? Well there’s been; culling of poor producing cows, selecting replacement heifers with better performance records, selecting herd bulls with good BCIA records as calves, as well as on feed after weaning.
Improvement in type comes primarily from breeding, possibly solely from breeding. Ladder climbing in daily gain comes through breeding and management. As far as his feeding, seeding, liming.
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