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Article Excerpt
You know, everybody has their widget, their product. Cattle are like any other business; there are different people along the production line to get the steak to the grocery store or the milk to the market. So it's more than just that idyllic image of cows grazing in a pasture. They're our production units, and we have to consider the economics.
Some cattle breeds are known for their milk, like Jersey or Holstein cows, while some are known for their marbling, like Angus cattle. Right now we are the largest registered Charolais herd in Texas and the third-largest in the nation. The Charolais, or "the great white breed," as my grandmother liked to call them, are known for being a heavier-muscled beef breed. And they're a terminal breed, which means that most people buy our bulls to breed to their commercial cows and produce calves that get slaughtered for meat. In effect, they buy them to get more pounds of beef from their herds.
So our cows, so to speak, are our factories: Each one is here to...
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