Proactively managing calf health pays dividends. We’ve been beating this drum for decades. Like BVD management, a critical component of pre-conditioning, we still have a long way to go, asserts Greg Henderson, editorial director.
Source: Drovers CattleNetwork, May 2016, page 31.
Preconditioning your calves is a no-brainer. It makes money for everybody in the chain and improves the quality of beef for consumers”, says Dan Thomson, Jones Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University. “We’ve got to get more producers to precondition their calves.”
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