12-30 IAT Computer Beef

12-30 IAT Computer Beef

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.

The governing board of the American Angus Association recently welcomed a new President - Gordon Stucky - an Angus rancher from Kingman, Kansas. Stucky will help guide the course for the business breed and its more than 25,000 members across the United States and Canada. I guess the part that amazes me is the fact that raising cattle, whether it be Angus, Brahma or Charolais, I don't care, is the importance of data. When I think beef, I think cowboy out on the range. It is so much more sophisticated than that: “the American Angus Association has to continue to refine their business plan as we go forward. I think the ability for the Association to use the extremely strong database that we have, utilize a staff that we have that, in my opinion, is second to none and to be able to transfer the collection of data into a concise format where commercial cattlemen and seed stock producers can grab onto that and just continue to be able to make higher-quality cattle every year as we go forward, will keep the Association in a very strong position”.

 

As cattlemen start looking for genetics to rebuild their cow herds - Stucky believes there is a huge opportunity for the Angus breed

 

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