BEEF cattle breeders across the country share some key decisions, regardless of their environment, market or chosen breed types.
These key decisions can be broken down into three considerations.
The first is what to breed for? This consideration takes into account the production environment and the market that a breeder chooses to target, be it growing and finishing cattle for slaughter or live export; selling feeder cattle; or producing seedstock animals for other producers.
In turn, this leads to the second key decision of what data should be recorded on-farm.
Again, both commercial…
