Dr. Ron Gill
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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In a drought situation, the most productive cows are those older cows.
They'll rebreed.
They may not have the heaviest winning weight, but they're through growing, they're lactating all they're going to.
By the time they make it to ten or twelve years old in somebody's operation, they're pretty environmentally adapted.
They haven't had many problems structurally or anything else.
So I may push the envelope a little bit more on the older cows than some should.
And I I'm not gonna recommend everybody do that, but sure look at those cows, but also realize that if you start keeping them, you're gonna wind up with a slug of cows you've gotta cull at some point in time.
Mm-hmm.
So right now I'm kind of mining those old cows so I'll have more calves to sell.
But I also know that I've got to get my strategies right to get rid of them and still have a good core base cow herd when it's all said and done.
So I'm still retaining about the same amount of heifers, but I'm just keeping some of the older one more year, if I have the forage to do that.
I think we need to d decide whether she is the type of cow you want to raise.
We talked about the big cows, the little cows, off colored cows, whatever it might be.
If there's a an opportunity to shape this cow herd up even better for yourself, then make those decisions now.
Don't do something you'll regret later kind of scenario.
I think that's would be my thought.
Just make sure you're sticking with your program.
identifying the type of cows and trying to get uniformity of production, your environmental adaptability, all that as close to right as you can.
Yep.
Good advice there.
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