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Winter performance key in dairy beef systems

SHARING OPTIONS: The target is to have bullocks at 353kg and heifers at 338 kg on 11 March at turnout. With beef finishing margins extremely tight, there is no room for error or poor performance in any beef system. This is particularly true in a dairy-calf-to-beef system. A prolonged period of poor performance or what is often referred to as a store period will have a severe impact on animals’ ability to hit weight targets and will significantly increase the costs to get that animal finished at the other end. This is especially true for farmers in a 19- to 20-month finishing system. The idea in this system is that most animals are slaughtered off grass at the end of the second grazing season. If target weights are not met along the way, this will mean housing, which will increase costs significantly. Many of the Thrive programme farmers have gone down this road as housing space is limited on farms and they don’t have the option of ho

Maryland s governor says Black residents do not want to get vaccinated, but thousands seek shots

Maryland s governor says Black residents do not want to get vaccinated, but thousands seek shots Rachel Chason and Erin Cox, The Washington Post March 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Clementine Ruffin, 102, received her first dose of coronavirus vaccine in February, after weeks of trying. Her friend Gail Carter, left, helped her navigate the process to get vaccinated in Prince George s County, Md.Washington Post photo by Jonathan NewtonShow MoreShow Less 3of3 A 94-year-old veteran got so tired of waiting for an appointment that he drove around his Washington suburb at random, hunting for a vaccine. A partially blind 81-year-old wanted a shot but had no computer or smartphone to register online. Yet another older Black resident of Maryland s hardest-hit county, this one 102 years old, relied on church friends a few decades younger to help her through a distribution system best navigated by Internet-native generations.

Eager to act, Biden and Democrats leave Republicans behind

Democracy on the Brink

Democracy on the Brink Democracy on the Brink One party is racing to fix an ailing electoral system. The other is doing everything in its power to shut voters out of it Andy Kroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON In the coming weeks, the battle over democracy’s future in America will hit a boil. On one side is a group that looks at the last election and sees a resilient but damaged system. A system that withstood  sometimes only barely a raging pandemic, a conspiracy-theory-peddling president, a major political party all too eager to amplify that president’s lies, a wave of hail-mary lawsuits intended to overthrow the election result, and a violent insurrection in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.

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