This article looked at what the feedlot manager looks for in an animal.
Quality is in the eyes of the beholder. That saying should be the guiding maxim of the man who has the job of buying for feedlots and finishing off the animals. So says Dave Ford Kanhym, feedlots manager at Middelburg and Pietermaritzburg. He is responsible for finishing 198 000 cattle a year at these feedlots. Buying calves at the price higher than the going market price for beef and finishing them in a feedlot over