Beef cattle

Question 1

How many beef cattle in US

Answer 1

95 million
631,000 VA

Question 2

Harvest live weight and age

Answer 2

1345lbs and 16-20 months old

Question 3

How much beef is exported

Answer 3

11-14%

Question 4

English Breeds (Bos Tarus)

Answer 4

Belted Galloway
Black Baldy
Hereford
Red and Black angus

Question 5

Continental Breed (England)

Answer 5

Charolais
Simmentals
Limousin

Question 6

Bos Indicus (India)

Answer 6

Brahma

Question 7

Beef Cattle production

Answer 7

cow/calf
grower
feedlot

Question 8

Cow calf

Answer 8

producer breed, deliver and raise calves

Question 9

Cow calf repro

Answer 9

natural service
10% AI

Question 10

Cow calf Bulls

Answer 10

purchased rather than reared
1/30 ration or 3 bulls per 100 cows

Question 11

Cow calf breeding season

Answer 11

cow calves on the same day every year
turn bulls out 80 days after calving season beginning - 80+285=365

Question 12

Cow calf birth

Answer 12

60-120lbs

Question 13

Cow calf seasons

Answer 13

Spring calving Feb-March
Fall calving Aug and Sept

Question 14

cow calf weaning

Answer 14

5-10 months old
accompanies marketing

Question 15

Beef cattle Production Grower

Answer 15

backgrounders
stockers
weaners

Question 16

backgrounders

Answer 16

giving calves a background after leaving the cow to prepare them for successful life in feedlot-physiologically and immunologically
own animals 1-3 months

Question 17

stockers

Answer 17

grazers who capitalize on economical gains of weaned calves
utilize high quality pasture

Question 18

weaners

Answer 18

perform function of getting calves through the stress of weaning and adjustment to eating harvest forages

Question 19

Feedlots

Answer 19

final phase for mainstream beef production

Question 20

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO)

Answer 20

large and specialized business
1000-100,000 head

Question 21

Slaughter by packers

Answer 21

JBS, Tyson and Cargill