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Workplace abilities requiring no talent

Many businesses can teach employees how to do the tasks required for the job. However, traits they can’t teach tend to be more important for the employee to have to succeed with the company.
September 28, 2023
Don Tyler

Many business leaders and managers complain that they can teach new employees how to do all the tasks required for the job, but too often prospective employees lack the character and attitude necessary to fit their company culture. Here are a few desirable traits requiring no talent, skills, experience or education to be a great employee, whether they are a family member or a hired employee.


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Hart Simmentals honored with Golden Book Award

September 28, 2023
Tyrell Marchant

The American Simmental Association presented the Golden Book Award to Hart Simmentals of Frederick, South Dakota, at the ASA’s Fall Focus event Aug. 26 in Denver. Recipients of the Golden Book Award are recognized for being lifelong promoters of the Simmental breed.


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Certified Angus Beef’s new direct-to-consumer program

Certified Angus Beef developed a new direct-to-consumer program. The Ranch to Table program allows producers to put the CAB brand and logo on their own freezer beef to market directly to consumers.
September 28, 2023
Abigail George

Many producers take pride in raising Certified Angus Beef (CAB). Now these producers can take the CAB brand and logo to their freezer beef market with the new direct-to-consumer Ranch to Table program.


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[Podcast] Red Angus Conference - with Rick Funston and Jordan Shockley

September 27, 2023

The October podcast goes to Denver, Colorado, for the Red Angus annual conference where David Cooper interviews Rick Funston and Jordan Shockley. Funston, a reproductive physiologist with University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explains numerous factors toward efficiency in repro rates, heifer selection and reproductive success.


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Production slightly lower on slow fed cattle slaughter pace

September 27, 2023
Russell Knight and Hannah Taylor

The latest Cattle on Feed report, published by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), estimated the Aug. 1 feedlot inventory at 11.030 million head, over 2%  below 11.289 million head in the same month last year.


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Implanting before the feedyard and why it pays

Several misconceptions about the feedlot performance of implanted cattle exist. However, animals that have received growth implants prior to entering the feedlot consistently outperform those that haven’t.
September 26, 2023
Levi McPhillips

Depending on who you talk to, attitudes toward the use of implants in beef cattle production are very different. Most finishing yards are using implants today unless cattle are enrolled in a non-implant, natural or organic program that prohibits their use. Before the feedyard, however, their use decreases the smaller the animal becomes. 


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Estate planning: Options beyond a typical will

A comprehensive estate plan considers not only your assets after your passing but also your health, living, business and financial circumstances for the remainder of your lifetime. Here are summaries of common estate planning tools you may consider.
September 26, 2023
Garrett Couts

When someone hears “estate plan” they generally think “will.” However, for today, I want to focus on the other estate documents beyond a will – there are many!


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Change of scenery

September 25, 2023
Tyrell Marchant

There was a bit of a chill in the air – a friendly one, not the angry kind that would come whipping out of the north in a month or two – as I cruised with my window down along Highway 20.


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Researchers to ID genetic tools to improve growth efficiency

A new grant will allow UNL scientists to better gather information from cattle's mitochondrial genome, which can serve as a tool to improve growth efficiency.
September 22, 2023
Tyrell Marchant

The study will focus on cattle’s mitochondria, cell components whose biochemical activity produces most of the body’s energy for cell function. The researchers hope the project will expand the range of genetic tools used by animal breeders.


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Across the Fence: Embarrassing mistakes

Life is full of twists and turns, so take a map!
September 21, 2023
Marci Whitehurst

Do I have a story to tell you …
But it’s a little embarrassing, so go easy on me.


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