SG-USA-April-2020

SANTA GERTRUDIS SHOW Result s

FLORIDA STATE FAIR Feb. 9, 2020 | Tampa, Fla. | Judge: Todd Fitzpatrick

GRAND CHAMPION BULL BSR Yeti, shown by Audrey Jones, Lake City, Fla.

RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION BULL Sullie, shown by Lecy Hutcheson, Wrightsville, Ga.

GRAND CHAMPION FEMALE Scarlet, shown by Lecy Hutcheson, Wrightsville, Ga.

RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION FEMALE Miss Lady May, shown by Carley Jones, Lake City, Fla.

RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION STAR 5 FEMALE Mary Ann, shown by Lecy Hutcheson, Wrightsville, Ga. DATA MAKES THE DIFFERENCE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34 hair up in the winter and then slick off in the summer. On top of that, breeders are putting upward pressure on mar- bling – which is very important to LCoC and their customers – and downward pressure on birth weights, which will be important as they outcross to the Bos taurus populations. Selection for the fertility traits is also possible now and is almost equally important from a financial standpoint as is selection for growth and carcass traits. “Our task as breeders is to find the genetics that work and in today’s envi- ronment. Cattle must have the ability to acclimate, they must have fertility and they must have carcass merit. If you don’t have all those things, the cattle are not going to work,” Leachman says. “The reality is, you need sufficient populations to make genetic improve- ment and unless you are measuring all of the traits related to profitability and then combining that in a genetic analy- sis, you’re going to get left in the dust.” Santa Gertrudis is making the dust as they continue to march forward.

GRAND CHAMPION STAR 5 FEMALE CJ’s Bella 318/7, shown by Carley Jones, Lake City, Fla.

SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK SHOW Feb. 9, 2020 | San Antonio, Texas | Judge: Brad Bennett

GRAND CHAMPION BULL Rockin 3T’s Creed, shown by M6/Greeson Farm, Rice, Texas

RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION BULL AND BEST OF POLLED BULL Rafter Y Manchild, shown by Laura Zibilski, Burton, Texas

RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION FEMALE PC Clara 1/18, shown by Bret Pittman, Ponder, Texas

GRAND CHAMPION FEMALE AND BEST OF POLLEDFEMALE KK Sabes Tatiana, shown by Kalli Kimble, Kingsbury, Texas

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