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Spent a couple of days at the National Western Stock Show and will be headed back for a few more days this week. I have been a Livestock Superintendent there for several years. Really nice weather after last week. The snow is melting and the temperatures are really nice. Been back and forth from home to Denver, Co this week so I am getting in lots of travel time.
Here we are again starting a whole new year. The First week has been cold and seasonal for us here in Northeastern Colorado. We moved the cows to a new cornfield last week after Christmas, only to start this week with a snow storm. It was kind of like a blizzard for us but fortunately the snow amount was only a couple of inches. We had to feed the cows for a couple of days. Will be going to the stock show at the end of the week for a couple of days.
Check in here often as we will tell you what went on at our farm this week. We will be discussing all the interesting aspects of how are animals are raised. If you have a topic that you would like us to respond to please email us on our contact form and we will include it in our weekly blogs.
Here at Koberstein Farms, We use RFID Tags in the beef animals to track their movements and to monitor their performance and growth. We have used several types of programs and different equipment but the one that works the best for us is the Archer Unit and FAST EID Software sold by Fort Supply Technologies, www.fort-supply.com In the photo below you will see the unit we use along with all the accessories. The data is saved in an excel format spreadsheet so that the data can then be downloaded to a regular computer or laptop. We can send this data to any breed association for registering the cattle or to our source and age provider for verification of the animals birthdate. The folks at Fort Supply have been very helpful with everything and are always on call if you have any questions. The unit is weather proof, water proof, and very durable as I have dropped mine several times and it still works great.
Sunday Morning News here at the Farm: Snow here this morning about 2 inches that makes 28″ of snow we have had here since the first of October. We have moved a group of Mother cows home from their summer range and they are on their winter range which is a corn field that has been harvested. They will eat the leaves and stalks from the corn plant and if they are lucky they might find an ear of corn which is a real treat. The Girls ( Mother Cows) will search the corn field looking for them left over ears, to them it is like finding candy in your vegetables. I swear they can smell an ear of corn at 50 yards. We finished the sugar beet harvest last evening. The beets are hauled to a local factory where they extract the sugar from the beet. Once the sugar had been extracted the left over pulp which looks like shredded coconut can be used for cattle feed. It is a very good feed for the cattle as it is mostly fiber with a good protein content. There is nothing wasted from the sugar beet process. We feed the pulp to our cattle as a part of 
their growing diet.