Reproduction and Animal Health: How to Select, Breed, and Manage a Herd for Health and Performance on Grass

This book represents the combined experience and wisdom of two leaders in sustainable cattle production. Gearld Fry offers a lifetime of practical experience seasoned by study and observation. Charles Walters draws on his own observations as well as interviews with thousands of eco-farmers and consultants over the past four decades. The result is an insightful book that is practical in the extreme, yet eminently readable. In this book you will learn: how to “read” an animal, what linear measurement is, why linear management selects ideal breeding stock, the nuances of bull fertility, the strengths of classic cattle breeds, the role of pastures, and the mineral diet’s role in health.

Charles Walters is the founder and executive editor of Acres U.S.A. He has authored thousands of articles on the technologies of eco-agriculture and he is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Eco-Farm, Unforgiven, Mainline Farming for Century 21, Weeds: Control Without Poisons, and more. Gearld Fry has worked with cattle breeders for more than three decades, having operated a reproductive center and now serving as an independent consultant. He is familiar with all areas of traditional and modern conventional breeding methods and is accomplished in embryo work, pregnancy checking, semen collection and artificial breeding. Much of his consultancy is based in rations balancing and finding answers to livestock health and performance problems in nutrition.