Dairy beef changes dairy management, beef market

Farmtario spoke with Dr. Michael Steele about the quickly evolving sector and his Alliance-funded research into optimizing crossbred calf performance, health and welfare.

Steele has found that feeding high-energy diets to dairy beef animals post-weaning can result in highly efficient gains and animals ready for processing at 12 months, “which is really incredible and extremely efficient."

“We just reared animals that were Holstein purebred as well as crossbreds in a preliminary study, and these animals were growing at extremely high rates of over 2.5 kilograms per day, and they were finished over 700 kilograms just over 12 months of age,” said Steele.

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