Controlling Flies for Better Profitability

Welcome to the Cattleman’s Corner. I’m Brian Hale, sitting in for the late Howard Hale as we continue his legacy of speaking with cattlemen and women from around the globe. And from the archives, the late Howard Hale in an interview with Mark Upton.

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Mark, why is it important to keep that fly population down? As a cattle owner myself, I think a lot of cattlemen just don’t realize the amount of dollars that those flies are just taking right off the backs of those cows. I don’t think they understand the big economic threat those flies are. And there’s just really not a good reason to not do something to try to control those flies because I can assure you, for every dollar you spend to keep the flies down, you’re gonna put a good five or six bucks back in your pocket.

Could even be more than that, but at least five or six dollars you’re gonna put back in your pocket for every dollar that you spend because you’re gonna prevent them from robbing profits off the back of that cow. And what about some of the other species? Same deal then? It is the exact same thing. And depending on the species, for example, you look at swine.

We have a swine team that’s calling on all these large conglomerates around the US. The latest work we’ve done with swine is disease spreading. There’s some viruses in swine that are just lethal.

I mean, just put you out of the swine business. And we know that these flies not only carry, but transmit these viruses. Mark Upton with Central Life Sciences.

Thanks for joining us. Great to have you along. May God bless you.

Come back and join us again, won’t you? I’m Howard Hale.