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Yes at $1.75 pound hanging carcus weight that is around $1,400 for a 1300 pound steer at 62%. I have e-mailed other companies claming to market grass feed beef cattle but no reply yet. Tall Grass Beef have called my house two times plus sent me two e-mails in one week. Sound like a go getter of...

Has anyone herd of Tall Grass Beef Company out of Texas? They market grass feed british breed beef cattle to the Chicago. Their website is http://www.tallgrassbeef.com. Three sevens are luckier than one 8)

Thanks for all of the advise. The one thing to making money is to keep a low overhead. [/b]

I have also been looking at mixing weat straw with the hay and corn silage since I purchase all of my hay and my brother has 40 acres of weat. I don't have the time anymore to raise hay for we like to stick with corn and beans and hay is easy to find. Am I going of the deepend here or not yet? I...

Does anyone use a round bale chopper or a tmr/chopper? When we feed round bales out of the greenchop wagon (to our beef cows in the winter months) it seems to me that they pull a lot of hay out on to the ground. Which in return is wasted. We do feed a little corn silage and would like to mix...

Sorry it took so long to reply. Internet problems. Have been in the beef industry for about 8 years; dairy cows about 10 years before that on my parents farm. I was in with my mother and father 50/50 and since she is my mother she got it her way. We had 15 cow/calf and 5 heifers which were...

This is a lot to know. Thank you again

I am starting over from scratch with my beef herd. I would like to know what all of these abbreviations stand for and the relative numbers. Which ones should I pay attention to as I am planning on sell the offspring as hanging weight not through a sale barn. I am still unclear as which bred or...