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Kansas Ranchers recognized for superior cowsKansas Cattlemen are looking for cattle with optimum efficiency to enhance profitability and contribute to the competitiveness of the beef industry. They are dependent on cattle that not only perform with optimum efficiency but also enhance offspring performance. The American Salers Association is not only proud to promote a breed that offers optimum efficiency but to award Salers breeders for producing superior dams through the ASA Golden and Silver Dam Program. Four Kansas Ranchers are commended on being among breeders awarded the Golden and Silver Dam Awards. Golden Dams Silver Dams GG&T Land & Cattle Co., Quinter, Kan. 4 8 White Woman Creek Salers, Leoti, Kan. 2 1 Lightning Creek Salers, Girard, Kan. 1 1 Williams Polled Salers, Lincoln, Kan. 0 2 The ASA Golden Dam Program is different from other breed programs. The criteria to become a superior dam are more stringent. The ASA Golden and Silver Dam Program recognizes Salers breeders' top producing cows within a herd based on number of calves weaned per cow exposed and weaning weight of calves which defines efficiency. Cows can be recognized from herds in harsh environments with lower weaning weights to herds with excess nutritional resources and high weaning weights because the list is based on within herd performance. The classifications to become a superior dam are more stringent than other breeds as each one of the dam's calves must have a ratio above average. To become a Golden Dam, cows must meet tough criteria in order to be selected. Golden Dams must be 75 percent Salers, have had a calf before they are 2.3 years of age, calve within a 395 day calving interval, and each of the dam's calves must have a had a weaning ratio greater than 105. These are the top quality, most efficient cows in a herd. The Silver Dams recognized must meet the same criteria as the Golden Dams but are allowed to have weaned calves that have a weaning ratio greater than 100. For the 2009 program, 138 elite Salers dams were recognized on the ASA Superior Dam listing. The American Salers Association is the Salers breed's leadership voice that records, protects and promotes Salers cattle. The ASA has represented Salers breeders across the nation since 1974.
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