Secretary’s Message – July 2010

Well, folk’s those of you who attended the 2010 Convention near Kansas City, KS a couple of weeks ago, are probably still talking about the highlights of the farm tours, show & sale, and the good food, meetings, and plain old – down to earth hospitality and don’t forget the laughs and giggles during the [...]

July 2010 Issue

The next issue is to be printed July, 2010 Deadline June 30, 2010 Have your articles, ads, items of interest to the editor: Judy Brener 6567 N. Broadway Rd. Apple River, IL 61001 815-594-2573 buelingoeditor@yahoo.com See prices under Advertising

Secretary’s Message – March 2010

CHECK OUT THE CENTERFOLD! In this issue, the center pages can be taken out and used for your Convention Itinerary and Fees form. Please feel free to make copies of the forms as needed. The Steves have put together quite an itinerary for the 2010 Convention Show and Sale in spite of their many winter [...]

President’s Message – March 2010

Greetings from cold, snowy, beautiful Kansas! It’s cold now, but by June it will be warm, balmy and sunny. This has really been the toughest winter in 20 years, so things have got to be getting better. Plans for the 2010 BueLingo Beef Cattle Society Convention are well underway. The Thursday evening meet and greet [...]

Feedlot report from Jerry and Linda Woody

JeryLin Acres, Inc. “AN IOWA BUELINGO HERD” I had 11 heifers and 9 steers in my neighbor’s feed lot from Feb. 8 to Aug. 21. All of them were sired by my BueLingo Bulls and nearly all of the cows were at least 50% BueLingo. The calves weighted in at 580# and out at 1155#. [...]

Salting Birds and Cattle

By Darol Dickinson At the age of five years old, my grandmother told me that if you sprinkle salt on a bird’s tail, you could catch the bird. She also told me that if you grab a skunk and hold his tail down in a horizontal position, he can’t squirt you. Now, bless my dear [...]

2000 Steer Feedlot Test Results

By Dewey Wachholz, University of Wisconsin at River Falls, Livestock Specialist It was indeed a pleasure for me to be given the opportunity to work with you BueLingo breeders on this steer project. I have been working with Bull Test stations for about 25 years. but find that this project was even more interesting. With [...]

Cattle Psychology

from: Animal Handling Facilities booklet Cooperative Extension Service University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Prepared by: Warren D. Goetsch Area Extension Engineer and Dave Seibert Area Livestock Advisor Cattle Psychology There are several factors to consider when planning a cattle handling facility. One of the most important and most overlooked is the psychology of the animal. [...]

Cattle Handling Facilities

By James B. Neel Associate Professor University of Tennessee One of the keys to increasing returns from a commercial cow-calf operation is the time application of basic management practices. Many of these practices require that the cattle be either penned or restrained. Without adequate cattle handling facilities these practices are not done Most cow-calf producers [...]

As I See It – Where are we Going on Size?…

As reprinted from The Western Livestock Reporter By Patrick Goggins, Publisher from The BueLingo World – Oct-Dec 1994 One of the most talked about phases of the livestock industry today has to do with size. There’s been a mass movement in many areas away from larger cattle and to down-size the frame score into a more [...]

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