Piedmontese Cattle Association

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


Click HERE to buy Piedmontese Beef On-Line


 


INDUSTRY

 Active Farming. com Farmers helping farmers farm better through collaborative efforts. {Excellent resource site !}

Texas Animal Health Commission

 Click here to visit RuralAds.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 !

Cowboy.com - Free Advertsing for the Western Community!

 


 

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...

 

 

Email us at NAPA by clicking on the name.

Visitors Since Feb, 2003

 

 

To suggest reciprocal LINKS with the North American Piedmontese Association (NAPA) website, email Vicki at NAPA@yourlink.ca