NAPA DIRECTORS Contact these NAPA Directors via email - just click on the underlined address. Jerry Hofer, S.Dakota - President lakeviewpieds@juno.com Adam Swinehart, Ohio - sos97@sssnet.com Josh Benton, Nebraska at josh-benton@piedmontese.com John Snover, Colorado at memlane2010@hotmail.com Ken Silva, California at KSM@shasta.com Hiram Lambert, Nebraska - hi.lambert@yahoo.com Joel Vaden, Tennessee at JVaden1958@aol.com Vicki Johnson - Executive Director Announcing - Ralph Peterson as NAPA Cattle Development Director. For further information email Ralph or call 406-670-1969 Advisory Committee: Peter DenOudsten, Alberta, CA -peony@platinum.ca Delon Shetler, Ohio - delonshetler@hotmail.com Don Straight, Nebraska - don-straight@piedmontese.com BREED ASSOCIATIONS The Italian Piedmontese Association (ANABORAPI) The Canadian Piedmontese Association (CPA) Piedmontese Society of New Zealand Australian Piedmontese Association Piemontese Assoc. of Argentina (CRIAPI) The British Piemontese Society Irish Piemontese Society

PIEDMONTESE BREEDERS and/or Branded BEEF Marketers Field's Grassfed Beef (Oregon) Chapman Farms (Michigan) Golden Glow Farms (Wisconsin) Yoder Brothers Farms (Tennessee Piedmontese breeder & beef marketer) Certified Piedmontese Beef Poplar Ridge Piedmontese Southern Cross Land & Cattle Sandies Creek Farm (Texas) Stelly Farms (Mississippi) Emtman Brothers Farms (Washington) The Red Bird Farm (Michigan) Heartland Meats (Illinois) Reflections Ranch, Home of Sastex Beef (Texas Piedmontese breeders)     If you would like your Piedmontese website linked here, please contact NAPA. www.primegourmetmeats.com www.piedmontese.com International Lake Farm Piedmontese - New Zealand Click HERE to buy Piedmontese Beef On-Line

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INDUSTRY  Active Farming. com Farmers helping farmers farm better through collaborative efforts. {Excellent resource site !} Texas Animal Health Commission www.quietwean.com   PFIZER - the Gold Standard in Animal Health Northern International Livestock Exposition (NILE) Billings, Montana National Western Stock Show (NWSS) Denver

SERVICES Beef Improvement Ontario - go here to use the trial demo of BioTack and upload data for the Piedmontese EPD Project (BIO) Cattle Today DNA testing services - GeneStar Tenderness and GeneStar Marbling, plus more - visit either of these sites for details on these exciting services: Frontier Beef Systems or Genetic Soultions USDA Ag. Research Service - a Searchable Database of USDA Research Results. Open the main page and type in "piedmontese" or "myostatin". (USDA Research) Canadian Livestock Records Corp. (CLRC) The Cattle Pages (lots of links, industry news) Meating Place (up to the second information on the red meat & poultry industries...excellent, informative !) Browarny Photographics The Canadian Cattlemen's Association NATUR'S Way Inc - are you feeding cattle ? Check this site !

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The Links below will open Evaluation Summaries from the USDA Research at MARC (Germ Plasm Evaluations). To read the Introduction, click HERE....This report is a "Breeds of Livestock Comparison" of some 27 different breeds/categories, including Piedmontese. The results here are all from 'half-blood' Piedmontese 1-copy for myostatin; which post the highest dressing percent, the largest rib-eye area, and highest retail product percent.

Table 1 - Mating Plan

Table 2 - Biological Types (4 criteria)

Table 3 - Birth weight, calving to weaning performance

Table 4 - Post weaning daily gain, carcass dressing percent...

Table 5 - Carcass weight, Rib-eye measure...

Table 6 - Retail Products percent & weight, trim percent...

 

 

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