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We think the key to ranching is more pounds per acre, not pounds per head and hidden costs like infertility caused depreciation are why so many ranchers slowly lose their [ more ]

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Our cows even made the front page of the Wall Street Journal! Click the link below to see more!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/virtual-fences-for-cattle-vence-red-angus-24670cb

As we stay on the front side of new technology and [ more ]

This is one question we are constantly asking, and when we pay attention our cows will give us the answer. Certainly, they tell us with a pregnancy diagnosis each fall, [ more ]

As a multi-generational family cow/calf operation, we’ve had a similar life cycle to many of our customers.  Across the decades of our Red Angus seedstock business we’ve gotten older, had [ more ]

For years we have been measuring gain without any knowledge of what those gains cost on an individual animal basis.  Cattle feeders have told us for years that feed conversion [ more ]

Even as we select for faster post-weaning gains, Prime carcass quality, heavier carcass weights and more efficient feed conversion, most of us know our bottom line will be no better [ more ]

This fall the Red Angus Association of America replaced, HerdBuilder and GridMaster with three new indices.  Two of the new indices kept the names HerdBuilder and GridMaster, but they will [ more ]

Breeding season is in full swing all over the U.S., including here at Mushrush Ranches.  We just finished artificially inseminating about 500 head of commercial heifers and the [ more ]

In 2019 we started conducting Repro Tract Scores (RTS) on our virgin yearling heifers (both commercial and registered) as a pre-breeding soundness exam to determine those heifers which are [ more ]