Reading flies shows the high producers in the herd

  • Flies can cause disease, blood loss, weight loss, and cash loss in the field. STOCK PHOTO
    Flies can cause disease, blood loss, weight loss, and cash loss in the field. STOCK PHOTO
We aren’t quite there yet, but the temperature gauge is starting to point to summer already. It is looking like East Texas will have an early and long summer. With summer come bugs and…flies. There is nothing a fly likes so well as a dirty cow too tired to swish the flies away. Horn flies, in spite of their name, do not affect only the head of the cow. They will also cover the back and sides of…

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