Commercial Cattlemen Succeed with Beefmaster Bulls on The American Rancher

SAN ANTONIO – Commercial cattlemen and women realize the value that the Beefmaster breed adds to their commercial cattle herds and starting next week cattle producers can learn more about what a Beefmaster bull can bring to their operation. A new Beefmaster Breeders United (BBU) episode will be featured on RFD-TV’s The American Rancher that will focus on the strength of the Beefmaster bull and how they are providing superior replacement females and profitable, efficient feeder calves for commercial cattle producers throughout the United States.

The episode will premiere on Sept. 16, 2013 at 8 p.m. Central Standard Time (CST) on your favorite rural television network, RFD-TV. The Beefmaster bull episode on The American Rancher will explore how the Beefmaster bull is providing the best of both worlds for commercial cattlemen and women. The Beefmaster breed will produce reproductively efficient females and high grading bulls that will put more money in a cattle producer’s pocket.

“With Beefmaster cattle you can get the best of both worlds because they will grade well and you get extra pounds of end product,” said Justin Williams, a commercial cattle producer from Savannah, Tenn.

Beefmaster bulls not only produce superior females that will help rebuild the American cattle herd, these bulls are also giving confidence to commercial cattlemen when they send the bull to the pasture and the steers to a feedlot. This episode focuses on how the commercial cattle industry is utilizing Beefmaster bulls on females to produce easy fleshing; heavy muscle calves that walk on ample bone and display heavier weaning weights on the scales.

“It’s not that you’re getting just a superior replacement female anymore, you’re getting a tremendous steer calf. Not only will this steer calf do well in the feedlot; at weaning time is when he is going to push the scales down,” said Beef “ON” Forage Sale Manager Gary Frenzel of Temple, Texas.

BBU invites the public, commercial cattlemen and women, as well as potential Beefmaster breeders to tune in next week to The American Rancher and learn more about the Beefmaster breed, its bulls and how the breed is positively influencing the commercial cattle industry. The episode will also be available on the BBU website and social media platforms Facebook and YouTube.

The show is sponsored by Beef “ON” Forage Beefmaster Bull Sale, Collier Farms, Emmons Ranch, Thunder Valley Ranch, Wallen Prairie Ranch and Western States Beefmaster Breeders Association. Several commercial cattlemen and Beefmaster breeders will be featured on the video, as well as past BBU President Nolan Ryan and the Beefmaster foundation herd at The Lasater Ranch. The episode’s video was captured and produced by Superior Productions of Fort Worth, Texas and BBU Field Service Representative Jason Bates.

The American Rancher, hosted by Pam Minick, is entering its eighth year of broadcasting on RFD-TV. The series began in the fall of 2004 and brings audiences in touch with the people and places that make ranching an American lifestyle. The American Rancher is a half-hour television series that reaches a vast audience and premieres each Monday night at 8 p.m. CST and re-airs Tuesdays 10 a.m. CST and again on Sundays 11 p.m. CST.

For more information about Beefmaster Breeders United please contact the BBU office at 210-732-3132 or visit www.beefmasters.org. Stay connected to BBU through Facebook, view our videos on YouTube, follow us on Twitter and receive our news updates through joining our mailing list.