Cows are resilient, durable. Through droughts, flood and blizzards, through all kinds of stress and even most health challenges, they'll prevail, says Jason Sawyer, research scientist with the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management. "You can have aproblem and the cow may recover from it pretty well."But if they fail to produce a calf, you might not."The problem is that production failure costs so much. The cost of that loss is high enough that thecow may never be able to move back to lifetime profitability," he says, "and when health losses become epidemic, the operation as a whole may be in a bad situation."
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