Last year, I asked a friend who operates a 400-Simmental x Angus beef cow operation about his No. 1 goal, after all his cows dropped their calves by the end of April.

He replied that all his mature and young cows should show a couple of strong heats before they are let out with the bulls. He then implements a high plain of nutrition from post-partum until the breeding season; he calls it “reproduction planning.”

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