date:Jan 25, 2013
e drought. That's caused a lot of producers to cull lower-producing cows as one way to try to button up efficiencies and shore up poor production after feeding last year's drought-shortened, poorer-quality forage supplies.
Weve been fighting this teeter-totter of coarser feeds this year, more drought-stressed forages, higher feed costs, higher ration costs, people not feeding their cows as well, but at the same time culling out all the low-end cows, Horner says So we've been right at year-ago l