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BRD Costs Time, Money, Missed Shipping Opportunities
2014-09-23 22:45:46| Beef
Bryan Linn knows how to make sure his stocker calves don’t gain weight and miss the ship date to the feedyard. It’s easy, he says—just don’t control bovine respiratory disease (BRD) when they arrive at the ranch. However, since the Verden, OK, stocker operator works real hard at making sure his calves gain weight and punch their bus ticket at the end of the stocker period, he works very hard at keeping BRD under control. read more
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