![]() Rising inflation costs swallowed up the costs of raising heifers and selling bred heifers later didn’t always guarantee a returned profit. All of which goes back to helping the dairy to feed cattle.īefore breeding to beef, Carlson was raising excess heifers that they then would later sell as bred heifers, but that changed when the market changed. Details of such projects are discussed in Department of Agri culture Extension Bulletin 36.70 entitled 'Dairy Calves for Beef'. The calves can be finished as year ling dairy beef or can be reared as springing heifers for resale to dairymen. In addition, they farm 2,500 acres, of which they raise 1,000 acres of alfalfa and 1,500 acres of corn. rearing dairy calves can be a profitable new enterprise. ![]() The Carlson family milks 2,000 cows and basically raises all replacements on the home site, except 15% that are raised by a nearby family member. “And now we’re all strictly using either beef or sexed.” “Right away we went with using beef, as well as some conventional semen,” Carlson shares. Understanding their ultimate goals, the Carlson’s began utilizing beef-on-dairy a couple of years ago on both heifers and mature cows. “We want to keep older lactation cows in the herd longer because obviously we're getting more milk out of them.”
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