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EXTRA EFFORTSSummer 2019
Creating Profit for Commercial Cattle ProducersThe values that
Fred and Eudell taught us shape our goals at FSC Ranch to ADD VALUE
to others by focusing on the following question:
What can FSC Ranch do that will best equip our customers to have
enduring success through a profitable and sustainable cattle
business?
We believe major changes are necessary for a cattle industry
that is becoming more competitive and more volatile every day.
Therefore, our vision is to create a VALUE-ADDED SYSTEM that
focuses on three areas to meet these challenges and to serve and
equip our customers in this new environment with a realistic
competitive strategy. While there are details and execution
challenges with any business strategy, we seek to provide a
positive answer to three questions customers ask their seedstock
provider:
1- Do you care for me? 2- Can I trust you? 3- Can you help
me?
In this newsletter, we will unfold the three areas of our
VALUE-ADDED SYSTEM:
1- To sponsor an EDUCATIONAL FORUM that provides our customers
with the most up-to-date information to improve everyday practices
on the farm to help customers be more sustainable and profitable.
See Page 2 for more information about Dr. Bob Weaber, a nationally
recognized Professor/Extension Specialist at Kansas State
University in the area of Beef Breeding and Genetics. He will
present the latest information on “Crossbreeding - A Cattleman’s
Free Ride.”
2- Dedication to produce genetically designed cattle that grade
on the rail and can be retained as maternal replacements - we call
them EVERGREEN CATTLE. The key to producing EVERGREEN CATTLE is to
make genetic progress by using sires that are BALANCED for EPDs and
Indexes that have the largest economic impact on our customers’
breeding programs. We are excited to introduce IR CAPITALIST E-041
to you on Page 3 who, in our opinion, was the Number 1 Non-Parent
SimAngus™ bull sold last year.
3- FSC Ranch has teamed up with Allied Feeding Partners (AFP) to
create the FSC BUY-FEED PROGRAM. This program is designed to help
you get ADDED VALUE for your FSC Ranch sired genetics by increasing
the money you receive for your feeder calves and providing
real-world data to help you manage your cattle operations for
optimal profitability. See Page 2.
At the end of the day, we choose to seek to be a Difference
Maker that impacts the world by adding value to others as a God,
Family and Country Ranch.
"Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude;
everything passed on with grace." ~C.K. Chesterton
Dates to Remember
October 26, 2019Extra Effort Fall Sale
February 22, 2020Extra Effort Spring Sale
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Adding Value to Your bottom line
We are joining Allied Feeding Partners (AFP) to increase value
to our commercial bull customers by helping you increase the money
you receive for your feeder calves as you capture essential data
from your cattle sired by FSC Ranch bulls.
Through the use of FSC Ranch genetics, you have access to the
AFP program. You will get real-world data to show you how your
calves perform, which will help you manage your operations for
optimal profitability. The FSC Ranch is committed to ensuring the
success of our bull customers by investing in AFP and providing
customers with valuable data on how cattle perform after they leave
their ranch. That data can then be used to make better decisions
for buying bulls, in-herd management, and marketing leverage in the
years to come.
Through AFP’s partnership with Darr Feedlot, in Cozad, Nebraska,
we will feed the cattle and collect data through
the rail, enabling us to share important information with our
commercial bull customers.
In our data collection, we are committing to individual animal
ID and DNA samples to confirm the parentage of the calves to their
sires, and if the customers’ records allow, we can verify back to
the individual cow in their herd.
Clint Berry, representing Superior Livestock Auction and Allied
Genetic Resources, adds, “By sharing overall health, conversion,
and individual carcass results, our customers can utilize data to
make culling decisions within their herd and quantify the genetics
they have invested in their bulls.”
All the data collected will be shared with the National Genetic
Evaluation database to increase the accuracy of the FSC Ranch
seedstock helping our bull customers maximize revenue. If you would
like to participate in Allied Feeding Partners, please contact
Clint Berry at (417) 844-1009, [email protected], or
Fred Smith at (919) 422-4092, [email protected].
Please join us on Friday, October 25, 2019, for dinner and
social hour at the FSC Ranch beginning at 5 PM.
After dinner, Dr. Bob Weaber will give a talk on "Crossbreeding
- A Cattleman’s Free Ride." His presentation will cover how to make
simple, structured, sustainable, and prosperous decisions when
crossbreeding your herd. The key value drivers he will discuss are
managed heterosis, simple breeding systems, and
complementarity.
Dr. Weaber holds a BS in Animal Science, and a Master of
Agriculture degree in the Beef Industry Leadership Program at
Colorado State University. He completed his doctoral studies
in the Animal Breeding and Genetics Group at Cornell University.
He served as the Interim Director of Performance Programs for the
American Simmental Association, was Director of Education and
Research at the American Gelbvieh Association, and served on the
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Policy Division Board of
Directors.
Currently, Dr. Weaber serves as Central Regional Secretary of
the Beef Improvement Federation. He is also co-coordinator of the
National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium education programs and
serves as a consultant for several breed associations and beef
cattle genomics companies.
He will be happy to answer questions after his talk.
We hope you’ll join us for this wonderful evening filled with
food, friendship and valuable information to help grow your cattle
operations.
Meet Us at The Ranch Extra Effort Fall SimAngusTM Production
Sale
Saturday, October 26, 2019 &
Extra Effort Spring SimAngusTM Production Sale Saturday,
February 22, 2020
Friday Night Dinner at the RanchWith a Leader of Animal Genomics
in America, Dr. Bob Weaber
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Breeding Evergreen Cattle - Status ReportBreeding Evergreen
Cattle - Status Report
Adding Value and Impact on the Cattle Business through Genetic
Progress. The Evergreen future at FSC Ranch is IR Capitalist E041
(ASA # 3344847).
Our priority is to breed bulls that are balanced and work in all
seasons for our customers. We focus on five EPD traits and two
index traits for the following reasons:
How are we reaching our goal to produce Evergreen Cattle
IR Capitalist E041 (ASA # 3344847)
1. Calving Ease Direct EPD (CE): It all begins with a live calf
that does not require assistance and does not impose undue strain
on the calf or dam.
3. Yearling Weight EPD (YW): This highly heritable trait offers
individual genetic growth potential for increased efficiency in the
feedlot.
5. Marbling EPD (MARB): Consumers are demanding more
high-quality beef options, and marbling matters and increases
return to the cattleman.
7. Terminal Index (TI): Terminal index measures the expected
average performance of progeny including the growth and carcass of
Sim genetic bulls used on a cowherd, with all offspring placed in
the feedlot and sold grade and yield.
Capitalist is one of the highest SimAngus™ bulls in the breed
for overall genetic merit and who can sire both profitable breeders
and productive females. Bred Heifers will be offered at our Fall
Sale with the first Capitalist sired calves to be offered for
sale.
2. Weaning Weight EPD (WW): We believe most of our customers
market their calves at weaning time where they are sold by the
pound, so we emphasize this growth trait.
4. Stayability EPD (STAY): The greater stayability that a sire’s
daughters have to remain in the herd over six years equals fewer
replacement heifers. Females that stay in the herd reduce
replacement rates.
6. All-Purpose Index (API): API measures the expected
performance of progeny of Sim genetic bulls used on the cowherd,
with a portion of the daughters retained for breeding and selling
the remaining progeny.
7/27/19 CE WW YW STAY MARB API TIEPD 19.1 64.7 102.6 20.2 0.94
198.8 92.6Top 2% 50% 45% 5% 1% 1% 1%
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It is through living out our faith that we can make a difference
in this world.
