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I am with Caustic on this one. The problem now is that land is valued so high that cattle can not and are not expect to pay the note in many many places. If I had some fancy offfarm job making $150g and up a year, I probably would do the same thing and use that high income it to acquire land...

That sounds awfully steep. http://www.sandhillscattle.com/index.ph ... m=&ucat=1&

I hope that I am wrong; but I don't believe that in a typical commercial setting you can consistently get pens where 50% of the steers grade prime unless you have toadie little 2/3 frame scores......or you are feeding concentrated ration from birth (and even then I have doubts). Your normal 5 -...

I am not married, never have been, and have never really placed that goal high on the to do list; BUT no gal alive is worth enough to me to prevent me from helping MY Mother (everybody else is dead) if she really needed my help in something. If that means the gal walks......then she walks.

Dried out oak or sweet gum leaves or the free napkin that comes with the morning sausage egg and cheese biscuit work JUST as well. J.T. is right about the O2. Had not thought about that. Electricity??? indoor plumbing??? 99.99% of all the generations that went before us NEVER saw either...

Good job Mike, I tried to post that thing several times but couldn't find it on the net and am too lazy to type it out by hand from my Angus Bulletin hard copy. When Angus FINALLY posted the October Angus Bulletin online they left THAT article out for some reason.

three meal a day and a place to stay.....everything and everybody else is just gravy.

Horns are usually a good give away that one is not all Angus. A real long head with a roman nose, pronounced eye sockets outside the skull, prominent hooks and pins, no muscle in the lower hindquarters..............(uh) wait I better not go there. IF it is BLACK just assume she is Angus

You need to drive further. Visit the Bryants in Tennessee. Nobody has more experience with the breed. They either have cattle they can sell you or they know who does. http://www.silverbulletcattle.com/wst_page2.html

Exactly, I think most hay guys would much rather have mountains of hay to market than have 20% yields or have to spend money pumping irrigation water. It costs just as much money to drive a tractor over a low yielding field as it does a high yielding one. Even when the return per bale is...

We owned several cross cows, even a few registered. Used in a cross breeding program they work well. I thought the purebred cows were too hard to breed back in our conditions (fescue, sericea, and hot). We never really had any problem at the stockyard; but we marketed (usually) at 8,9...

Maybe I am too capitalistic; but IF you can buy the stuff for $25 a roll or less because the guy needs the money and/or the barn is full and/or nobody else is buying then DO IT. The flip side of that is when there is little hay in the barn, the guy doesn't need the money today, and dozens of...

I did not explain myself well there. IF you have a purebred herd of cows, it would make more sense to me to either breed them straight to produce straightbred females and bulls or breed them to a pure sire of another breed too produce F1 females. If you have a Hereford cow herd for example...

It is the same here.....except our hay is some mixture of fescue (or bermuda/bahia), timothy, sericea lespedeza, button clover, rescuegrass, johnsongrass, white clover, and rye. Very few cow hay fields are ever fertilized. Most USED to be cow pastures but the owners got tired of fixing the...

Very true about the uniformity, but the big benefit of crossbreeding IS the additional fertility and longevity of the crossbred female. Using straightbred females loses that advantage and the crossbred sire loses the uniformity of a purebred calf crop.

Better at WHAT??? CHARs (and most breeds) will outgain them in the feedlot. Angus will out marble and out quality grade them. Angus (and most breeds) will bring more per pound at the same weight than Longhorns at the stockyard. Brahmans probably have more heat resistance and heterosis in a...

The last time we fiddled with the grades was a debacle. I honestly wish USgov had NO ROLE whatsoever in grading beef; but in this nanny state expecting our govt overlords to not interfere in the economy is pollyanna-ish. Beef is down from it's historic highs of two years ago; but historically...

Why confuse the public and rock the boat when beef prices are up and all is more or less well with the world???

I am of the view that IMF and REA are probably the two biggest needs in cattle across the board, certainly the British breeds need to be looking at increasing muscle and indirectly improving Yield grade as a result. At this point, breed average growth numbers are more than sufficient...

Exactly, anybody who gets mad enough to use the b-word to somebody over another 2 cents a lb at the auction barn needs to be on some kind of medication. If I were the auctioneer I would have told him "Too put up OR shut up".