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Hamburger demand has kept lean beef prices up, it has also kept cull cow and bull prices on the increase.
The average price of fresh beef in grocery stores was a record $6.079 per pound during March. That was up 6.2 cents from the previous record set the month before.
The cost of implementing adequate biosecurity measures and associated vaccination protocols is minimal, compared with the cost of even losing one calf, let alone a cow or bull.
Breeding soundness exams can uncover problems with just-purchased young bulls and older bulls that have sired calf crops.
Beef imports are up, while exports of beef are down.
Calf scours, the common term for neonatal calf diarrhea, is one of the primary health problems in baby calves.
Vanderbilt University researchers have found a genetic mutation that causes pulmonary hypertension in cattle grazed at high altitude, and which leads to a life-threatening condition called brisket disease.
Cattle market prices down from 2014, but still historically high.
The more cows bred in the first 21 days of breeding the better.
This week’s fed cattle prices were the highest since early January.