Product Benefits Challenges facing the cattle industry have increased dramatically over the recent years. Managing cattle operations, whether, feed yards, dairies, or cow/calf has become the management of pennies over dollars. Pressures from increases in production cost has led cattle producers to seek ways to manage these cost. Over recent years the cattle business has seen increases in technologies that may or may not show bottom line improvements. New medicines have improved the numbers of sick or chronic cattle, but at a cost that, in current markets, sometimes are cost prohibitive. Feed technologies have improved rations, and developed ways to productively feed proteins,vitamins and blanket medicine treatments, which is value added, but increases daily cost of gain. Labor cost have seen dramatic increases, with higher wages and benefit packages, to keep the experienced cowboy, or, all to often, just to fill the position. |

