NIACC Beef Teaching Herd
The NIACC Farm Lab maintains an
outstanding beef cow herd consisting of 36 cows. The current cow herd has
been bred to some of the top AI Bulls in the country to produce show
calves.
Purpose: The cow herd is used to help students develop
beef production and husbandry skills. The herd is currently comprised of
14 registered Angus cows, 3 Registered Simmental cows, and 19 crossbred
cows. Production and marketing of each year’s calf crop is planned and
implemented by agriculture technology students. NIACC annually holds its
Club Calf sale in October. Students select the highest quality calves for
the sale; each calf is halter broke, groomed and fitted prior to the sale.
The sale is held on the NIACC campus Farm Lab. (see sale results in the
calf sale site)
ICA Bull Test: NIACC selects one bull calf for entry into
the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association Bull Test each year. This years entry is
an Angus calf sired by TC Freedom out of NIACC cow 41 by O’Neills Renault
912. This outstanding young bull prospect will be in the Guthrie II test
and should be sold in the Tama Sale held in May of 2005. This bull can be
seen at the Van Meter feed yard - west of Guthrie Center, Iowa.
A Learning Center: Through NIACC’s Agricultural
Technology Programs and the NIACC Farm Lab, students interested in
agriculture and the livestock industry, learn about meeting today’s
consumer demands by properly selecting and breeding livestock with
superior performance.
Featured Cow: NIACC 32 is an outstanding
crossbred cow out of Buck Pangburn’s Black Simmental Bull and O’Neills
Pure Pride 8 Angus. She is the mother of Tag # 12 Heifer by Heat Wave that
we sold to Jess Recknor for $2000. She now resides at the Davis Farm in
Minnesota and will be shown extensively this year.
NIACC 32 is housed at Westwood Embryo Services, Waverly Iowa, where she
is being flushed to produce embryos. We will be flushing her to Heat Wave
and Heat Seeker before breeding her next summer.
Spring 2005 Calving: Calves will be dropped from March 15
to May 10, 2005. AI sires used for our next calf crop include Heat Wave
(10-12 cows settled), Who Made Who (2), Ladies Man (2), Direct Hit (2),
Mojo (2-3), TC Freedom, Anchor, Prime Force, Air Force One, X-Ray Vision
(1 each), and (5-10) bred to our Angus cleanup bull by Focus.
Cow Herd Information
Breeding Schedule
Calf Sale
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