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Optimizing Your Contemporary Groups: A Timely Reminder for Fall and Spring Calvers
September 10, 2024
Now is an ideal time for both fall and spring calving operations to focus on their contemporary groups. For fall calvers, it's a chance to think about how they will set up their groups in preparation for the new calving season. For spring calvers, it’s an opportunity to review your birth groups and finalize their contemporary groups as they prepare for weaning those calves.
Ensuring that your contemporary groups are accurately established now will help streamline data management and enhance the accuracy of future evaluations.
Staying Efficient: How to Keep Your Inventory Current
September 1, 2024
The price of culled cattle has remained strong so far this year and ranchers are taking advantage of the market. Culling, the process of removing less productive or undesirable animals from a herd, plays a vital role in herd management. It not only helps in maintaining herd health and productivity but also facilitates genetic improvements.
By selectively culling, ranchers can focus on breeding cattle that exhibit superior traits such as higher fertility rates, better growth performance, and enhanced meat quality. These genetic enhancements are essential for ensuring long-term sustainability and competitiveness in the cattle industry.
Taking a Deeper Dive into Account Setting
July 1, 2024
In today's digital age, managing your online accounts goes far beyond remembering a password. Taking a deeper dive into your account settings is crucial for enhancing security, customizing user experience, and ensuring the accuracy of your personal information.
From changing passwords to updating phone numbers and tweaking other critical settings, these adjustments can provide added layers of protection and convenience. By regularly reviewing and updating your account options, you can stay ahead of potential security threats and make the most of the features and services available to you.
In this article I will highlight a few items located under the My Account section of AAA Login.
Efficient Strategies for Organizing and Managing Transfers
June 1, 2024
As the dust settles after the whirlwind of your production sale, and the echoes of enthusiastic bidding fade into memory, you find yourself facing a new challenge: navigating the transfers for your registered Angus cattle.
Here’s some insights to make it a little less daunting of a task.
Beware the Bull: Unveiling Facebook Scams Targeting Cattle Ranchers
May 1, 2024
In the vast digital pastures of social media, where communities gather and connections flourish, lies a shadowy corner frequented by devious characters: Facebook scammers targeting unsuspecting cattle owners. As the agricultural world increasingly embraces online platforms for networking and commerce, so too do opportunistic fraudsters, eager to exploit the trust and vulnerabilities of those within the cattle industry. From fraudulent sales of livestock to deceptive schemes promising unrealistically high returns, the tactics employed by these scammers are as varied as they are cunning, leaving ranchers and enthusiasts alike navigating a virtual minefield of deceit. In this article, we dive into the intricate web of deception woven by Facebook scammers, shedding light on their strategies and offering guidance on how to protect oneself in this digital frontier.
Essential Tips for Calving Record Submission
March 1, 2024
In the dynamic landscape of modern agriculture, effective record-keeping is the backbone of successful cattle management. When it comes to calving, maintaining accurate and up-to-date records is a strategic necessity for cattle producers. Timely and precise calving record submission not only ensures accurate data is being submitted to the Angus Association but also empowers you with valuable insights for making informed decisions.
Unlocking Customer Engagement: Leveraging AAA Login Tools for Lasting Connections
January 31, 2024
As the sales season gains momentum countywide, seedstock producers should prioritize cultivating strong relationships with their customers. The AAA Login platform introduces significant upgrades to its Buyer Contact Info & History feature, enhancing its capabilities to better serve your needs.
Unleash the Power of AAA Login to help Create Reports for Sale Day
January 1, 2024
As the calendar pages turn and daylight extends its grasp, the eagerly awaited spring sale season begins to stretch its wings. Peering into this moment from an outsider's perspective fails to capture the extensive investment of time and effort poured into its preparation. The journey begins two years prior with meticulous mating selections, and the ensuing tasks—ranging from the attentive care of feeding to the precision of clipping—creates a whirlwind of activity that can parallel the swift gusts of wind sweeping across the pastures.
Inventory Reporting Re-enrollment: Secure Your MaternalPlus Status
December 4, 2023
For those of you who are part of the Association’s Inventory Reporting program, it's time to begin the re-enrollment process in the coming weeks. The re-enrollment period will be open until January 15th
Navigating Inventory Reporting Enrollment
October 15, 2023
Earlier this year, I assisted my dad in the process of weaning calves. We gathered them from various pastures to wean them together. As I carefully backed up the trailer for the final load, it occurred to me how similar this was to the enrollment process for Inventory Reporting. Odd connection, I admit, but just like weaning calves, you shouldn't rush through it and with a bit of patience, everything falls into place.
Parentage Exclusions: Your Roadmap to Resolution
September 14, 2023
Let's be candid: how often have you logged in after receiving DNA Results only to find "Parent Excluded" listed for multiple calves, leaving you with a sinking feeling in your stomach? Creating a strategy to address these parentage exclusions can help alleviate your concerns and streamline the resolution process.
Tips for working with Tissue Sampling Units
August 14, 2023
Everything around us is constantly evolving. From the tractors that we drive to the equipment we pull, there seems to be new models coming out every other year. When Tissue Sampling Units, TSUs, first became available there were a lot of questions surrounding them. Is the sample just as viable as a blood card? Will the sample keep like blood cards? Are they re-useable like blood cards?
The purpose of this isn’t to advocate the use of TSUs over blood cards or hair samples, but instead give ideas to producers that are using them about ways I work with them.
Custom Animal Report, the Tractor of AAA Login
July 20, 2023
Have you ever thought about just how versatile a tractor is? In the winter it can be used to pull a grinder for feeding cows. In the summer it can be used to bale hay, and in the spring, the same tractor can be used to plant crops. It’s the same piece of equipment but depending on what is connected to it, serves a different purpose.
The Custom Animal Report (found at Reports > Interactive > Custom Animal Report) in AAA Login is the same way. At first glance, one would say, there’s a lot of data that can get returned to look at. There is a lot of truth to that, but have you thought about other ways to use the Custom Animal Report to make your processes easier?
Now is the time to take care of your calving records.
May 11, 2023
I have always loved this time of year in Missouri. The grass has greened up, leaves are back on the trees, flowers are blooming and of course, baby calves are running around in the pasture.
Life on the farm is something new each day. You get up with all the intentions of fixing the water gap or moving the cows to a new pasture, but who gets up thinking they are going to knock out their calving records for that season?
Breaking down Inventory Reporting.
May 6, 2023
Do you have a fall calving operation? If so, enrollment into Inventory Reporting is now available and could be a benefit for you.
By enrolling and submitting your entire calf crop each year, it will help your better calves stand out from their contemporaries.