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🎧 LISTEN: Points to consider before transitioning your dairy business to a beef operation

Written by Bill Halfman and Ryan Sterry
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This article originally appeared on AgProud.com on September 18, 2024

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Introduction

Creating beef-on-dairy calves can add additional revenue to your dairy operation, but if considering transitioning from a dairy operation to beef enterprise, there are several points to consider. This includes nutrition management, evaluating handling facilities, stockmanship and more…

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William Halfman

Beef Outreach Specialist – Bill’s educational programming has focused on beef cattle production and management, agronomic crops and soils production and management, small scale fresh market and bedding plant production, and specialty crop management.

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Ryan Sterry

Ryan Sterry

Regional Livestock Educator / Professor –  Ryan Sterry is a Regional Livestock Educator and Professor with the University of Wisconsin – Madison Division of Extension covering Chippewa, Dunn, and Eau Claire Counties. His educational programming and research focuses on beef and dairy genetics and reproduction and Beef x Dairy crossbreeding.

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