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Northeast Iowa | The 1991 Beef Quality Audit gave us a good look at what the people further down the line thought of our work at the time. Dr Gary Smith was interviewed on a podcast that the American Angus Association did last fall. He discussed a lot of the findings from that survey. He had a great story about his time as a welding teacher, too, that probably changed his course in life.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2029894/episodes/18051877-transforming-th...
Look at the attached screenshot of the Top Ten Concerns that various endusers had. Excess fat and injection site blemishes are toward the top in all of them. I had one vet out to work cows in the 90’s who brought his own chute. Every cow got shots in the hip and got a buzzer as she went in the chute whether she needed it or not. He was not the type to convince that his way was wrong, so I didn’t try. I didn’t have him back again. He left the business later when he got injured at the chute.
I also rode around with a guy who herded his cows with a rifle. Not sure if he had birdshot or regular shells in it. The shots he took were in the air, not directly at an animal. That made the birdshot and BB statistic easier to believe, I guess.
Edited by RFI90 2/5/2026 20:04
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BB’s and dart needles = $740 million loss to industry
