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Profitability of Beef Cattle Best Management Practices in South Texas:Calf Management Update

Mac Young, Levi Russell, Joe Paschal and, Steven Klose (August, 2014)

Summary

“Best management practices” are strategies to improve herd performance and ranching profitability. These often include calf management practices such as vaccinating, castrating, implanting, and deworming. Although the financial benefits are well known, few ranchers take the opportunity to implement these practices that will help them improve profitability.