Premier Red Angus

• The main ingredient needed to excel in the beef industry today is fertility and functional ability. The interest and demand for Red Angus cattle is the highest in the industry because of their carcass quality, maternal characteristics, calving ease, and moderate size that ideally suits today’s beef industry. Their red coat color is especially heat tolerant and well suited for warmer climates. Because of their thorough and strict registration process, the Red Angus Association (RAA) can effectively and truthfully describe and predict the three general areas of reproduction, growth and carcass using as few EPDs as possible.

• Red Angus Association Total Herd Reporting (THR).  In July 1995, the Red Angus Association implemented THR.  Having been a group that always required performance records, theis was just another step in that direction.  There was a growing need to collect performance data on ALL calves, not just those intended for registration.  So instead of the structure fee being focused on the calf registration, Red Angus structures it on the cow.  Therefore to keep the cow in the herd, you have to report her production for that year.  There are codes for twins, ET program (both as a donor or recip cow), open, switched breeding season, death of calf, and premature/aborts.  For more thorough details read the 2006 Red Angus Sire Summary.