John Maddux, Maddux Cattle Company, 2015 Pork Management Conference, June 16-19 in New Orleans.

1. June 17, 2015
“OUR USE OF CORNSTALKS: A HISTORY”
CORN RESIDUES IN BEEF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

2. TAYLOR CLARA
1886

3. MADDUX HOMESTEAD STINKING WATER CREEK

4. COW-CALF YEARLINGS
OUR SYSTEM

6. COWS NO SUPPLEMENT
CORNSTALKS

8. YEARLINGS WITH SUPPLEMENT
CORNSTALKS

9. WET DISTILLERS GRAINS DRY DISTILLERS GRAINS
FACILITATED THROUGH USE OF BYPRODUCTS

10. ECONOMICS
RENT/ACRE = $20.00
CALFDAYS/ACRE = 70
$/CALF/DAY = $0.29
YRDGE/FENCE = $0.19
DISTILLERS = $0.60
R MNERAL/DAY = $0.08
TOTAL/DAY = $1.15
#/DAY = 1.50
$/# GAIN = $0.77
Added benefits:
Grass Performance
Compensatory
Behavior
CALVES ON STALKS

12. FED ON THE GROUND

13. WINTER PAIRS WITH DISTILLERS

14. ECONOMICS
Costs $/day
Yardage = $0.20
Ration = $0.36
Rum mineral = $0.09
Total = $0.65
Gain = 1.5 /day
$/# = $0.43
Compares roughly to
half of backgrounded
calf at $0.90 /#
Cautions:
Breed up on cows?
Water!
Calves same final #s
Pairing up/robbing
Variable calves/can't
sort
Effect on R hfrs?

15. THE CALF LEARNS FROM THE COW?

16. 85 quarters, 25 miles away from home ranch. Near
CO state line to the west, Wallace, NE to Northeast.
Truck cattle out, drive them home horseback.

17. HEAD COUNT ON STALKS - 85 quarters
2351 Dry cows/R Heifers
1071 Cow/Calf pairs
825 Yearlings
48 Bulls
5365 head

18. Equipment – It is not a Feedyard environment!

19. WATER!
WATER!
WATER!
ESPECIALLY WITH
PAIRS

20. MATERNALIZER COMPOSITE
Genetics to fit year-round grazing, 5 months on cornstalks
Cows avg 1090# going to CS, Calves avg 420#
Coming 3’s avg 970# going to CS
Coming 2’s avg 870# going to CS

21. RED ANGUS
BULL
RED ANGUS FEMALE

22. TARENTAISE
BULL
TARENTAISE
FEMALE

23. SOUTH DEVON
BULL
SOUTH DEVON FEMALE

24. REDPOLL
BULL
RED POLL
FEMALE

25. DEVON
BULL
DEVON
FEMALE

26. QUESTIONS?