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Cow/Calf Health Management Services is a joint venture company between Drake Veterinary Services Ltd. and Feedlot Health Management
Services. The company's operations
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Hamilton Farms 12th Annual Bull and Select Female Sale: December 11, 2006, 11/29/2006
12th Annual Bull & Select Females Sale
Monday, December 11, 2006
1:00 pm at the farm
Hospitality and Cattle Viewing December 10
Complimentary Meal at 11:00 am
- Cattle Viewing & Open House
Selling approximately
80 rugged Angus Bulls
22 Select Heifer Calves
20 Powerful Bred Heifers
Effect of Certified Health Programs, 11/21/2006
Objective—To quantify effects of certified health programs
on the sale price of beef calves sold through a
livestock videotape auction service.
Design—Longitudinal study.
Sample Population—26,502 lots representing
3,205,192 beef calves sold through a livestock videotape
auction service between 1995 and 2005.
Procedures—Data describing each lot of beef calves
that were marketed from 1995 through 2005 by a livestock
videotape auction service were obtained from
sale catalogues. For each year of the study, multiple
regression analysis was used to quantify the effect of
certified health programs on sale price.
Results—For each year of the study, beef calves that
qualified for the 2 most intensive certified health programs
sold for significantly higher prices, compared
with prices for similar calves that were not in a certified
health program, had not been vaccinated against
respiratory tract viruses, and were not weaned before
delivery. Price premiums for calves in the most intensive
certified health program ranged from $2.47/100 lb
(hundredweight [cwt]; 1 cwt equals 45.45 kg) in 1995
to $7.91/cwt in 2004. Price premiums paid for calves
qualifying for the next most intensive certified health
program ranged from $0.99/cwt in 1996 to $3.47/cwt
in 2004. The percentage of the total number of lots in
the 2 most intensive certified health programs
increased over time.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Findings from
this study indicated that implementation of the 2
most intensive certified health programs consistently
increased the price of beef calves, and these price
premiums increased over time. (J Am Vet Med Assoc
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