There are quite a few differences between dairy and beef operations. Including, but not limited to:

- Beef operations do much more weighing and reports on weighing, and they do not refer to cows by lactation number but rather by calving number. 

- Beef cows may not become pregnant one breeding season and remain open until the next. Ranchers wish to restart the TBRD for this cow for the current season only, and not for the entire ""lactation"" of the cow. Currently, cows that stay open over the pregnant season and are bred again the following breeding season have their breedings added to the previous breeding season because she has not had a calf in the meantime and is therefore still in the same lactation.

- BCS at breeding event needs to be a report item. Very common and important to report on BCS of the animal at breeding to analyze the conception rates. (BCS at breeding and also Conception rate by BCS at breeding).

- Culling is a good thing in the beef industry - it is the harvest of the farmer's hard work. Need different reasons + more info about the carcass.