Robin Talbot: Why lifting your bottom line is all about improving your worst-performing animals
‘In terms of the profitability of our system, our goal has to be to improve the performance of the bottom half of the herd’. Photo: Alf Harvey
We have weaned the bull calves. It is an event I approach with a mix of apprehension and hope, because this is the first time that we get to get a good look at the calves on their own as a group away from the cows.
So it is a barometer of our breeding policy. What we are interested in at this stage is the performance of the group; the three points on which we assess them are: average weight; quality, ie shape; and uniformity.
