While attending CattleCon 2025, Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster Ron Hays had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jeff Sarchet, Zoetis Beef Technical Services Senior Veterinarian, about his role with the company.
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Dr. Sarchet covers a lot of country, supporting sales in Eastern Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Eastern Kansas, and Western Missouri. Growing up on a 5,000-head feedyard in the Oklahoma Panhandle, he gained firsthand insight into stocker cattle management.
“I’ve really enjoyed traveling from Missouri to Texas and seeing different pastures and ways they raise cattle,” Dr. Sarchet said. “It is amazing to me how much our producers adapt to their resources and use the forages that are there to their benefit.”
Zoetis cattle implants are one technology that helps producers make the most of their resources. Synovex® One Feedlot and Synovex One Grower beef implants provide up to 200 days of improved weight gain, and Synovex One Feedlot also increases feed efficiency. FDA-approved with no meat withdrawal times, implants produce more beef, safely.
“As adult males, our bodies make hundreds of times more hormones every day than what is in those implants,” Dr. Sarchet assured. “They are perfectly safe. We are just harnessing the science to turn on targets in the muscle cells where the muscle cells get bigger with the same nutrients.”
FDA has approved four segments of cattle that implants can be labeled for: nursing calves (Synovex® C), cattle on pasture or grass (Synovex Primer™, Synovex Choice®, and Synovex One Grower), and dry-lotted cattle (Synovex Primer™, Synovex Choice®), and feedlot cattle (Synovex Choice®, Synovex® One Feedlot, and Synovex Plus®).
“I grew up in the seventies when implants were somewhat new, and it was amazing,” Dr. Sarchet shared. “You can almost watch the cattle get bigger once they’ve been implanted, especially with the more potent ones that we use in the feedyard. They almost explode right in front of your eyes which seems unnatural, but as one CattleCon panelist said, ‘We are allowing the cattle to meet their genetic potential.’”
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