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The episode discusses the impact of early-life respiratory disease on the performance of dairy-beef crossbred cattle with insights from Dr. Melissa Cantor.

BRD doesn’t always announce itself with a dramatic crash in gain. Sometimes it shows up months later where nobody expects it: on the rail, as lower marbling and a worse carcass grade. That’s the unsettling thread we pull on with Dr. Melissa Cantor of Pennsylvania State University, as we unpack what early-life respiratory disease means for beef on dairy, beef, and crossbred calves. We start where lifetime health really begins: colostrum management. Dr. Cantor explains how immunoglobulin...

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Guest: Dr. Melissa Cantor

Topics covered

• early-life respiratory disease
• dairy-beef crossbred cattle
• carcass grade
• colostrum management
• beef performance

Keywords

• BRD
• marbling
• carcass grade
• immunoglobulin
• calves

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Organizations: Pennsylvania State University

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