Winter and spring is the time of year when cattle producers begin making their breeding decisions, with that comes many bull sale catalogs and EPDs that need to be reviewed and analyzed.
A major cost for cow-calf producers is obtaining an adequate supply of acceptable heifers, but purchasing replacements can sometimes an attractive alternative.
Discussions of genetics typically focus on the cow calf producer, however genetics play just as much of a role in the stocker industry as they do cow/calf.
