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I fought the red calf/black calf price differential for years, and gave away a lot of money in the process. Now I have Angus or SimAngus bulls and have profited from it. I still love to see red cattle and maybe the short cattle numbers will help them sell higher. It is hard to beat the eye...

Nice! You are in the Black Hereford business. My cows are mostly bred back in a line to a couple of cows I owned 38 and 20 years ago respectfully. I have always purchased my bulls so no inbreeding there. The sheep are descended from those my daughters showed in 4H some 15 to 20 years ago. I do...

Yeah, I purchased a young Angus bull at the April Branch View Angus sale about five years ago ( a really nice operation by the way). Since then my mailbox is deluged with cattle magazines and sales brochures. It bothers me about the waste for I hardly ever read one; they just have little...

For what it is worth, every set of twins I have ever had has come from a line of cows that had twined before. Other lines never twined over many generations. Once I had a vet down to deliver a calf out of a 1st calf heifer. After the calf was out, I told him he better go back in and check for...

I like the Charolais crossed on red cows. For a time in the early 2000s I had a small herd of registered Red Polls. When I was done with that, I bought a Charolais bull from a friend to breed them too. Beautiful yellow or buckskin calves that sold well. I even kept a few to make cows but they...

You could argue that the contrarian position is to keep heifers now. Few others are doing it. With a national cow herd the smallest it has been since 1951. this cycle could be extended through the lifetime of the retained heifers. I do not claim to know. Usually by this point in the price cycle...

But this time its different! Or at least I tell myself that. I cashed in some 1400 to 1600 pound cows when the price was about $1.15. They all had something about them I did not like, age, bag or just out of sync. Now I am short of cow numbers and am not pressed for cash. Thus, I ended up...

I resent having to go black to get the top price, but Warren may have a point here. No CAB and black calves bring less than they do currently, colored calves a little more, and the average about where it is now?

Odd that the terms preemption and preempting continue to be used in NW Canada. My family was preempting land here where I live in the late 1700s. They could acquire unclaimed and unsettled land for a token amount of money paid into the Virginia treasury. They only had to prove early occupation...

That is the ethic of the used car salesman or old time horse trader, and not what is best for the industry as a whole. We all struggle to balance what is good for us with what is good for all, but to not state the truth is very nigh to a lie. Look, I am guilty as well, but I see it as fault, not...

Here, there used to be a lot of small, Holstein dairies that bought heifers and bred their cows to Polled Herefords. The BWF that resulted was thicker than the Angus X Holstein cross and tended to hold up longer as a beef cow. Like KyHills said, they had more white on the legs, a feather white...

I used a roan Shorthorn bull in 1989; kept several solid colored replacements and I still get an occasional roanish looking calf, even today. Would not the wild Corriente colors pop up occasionally? I actually like the black steers with a few white hairs on their underline and poll, they tend...

Much of the value that made the original F1 Black Whiteface so popular was its hybrid vigor. Once all the back crossing got started in the Black Herefords, this hybrid vigor was watered down. You are left with a mongrelized animal that I would think would be less valuable. It is hard to beat a...

It gives a number and you can find out who the buyer was. I often already know.

Looks like all you would need to do is just let the word get out these are Warren's calves about to sell and you could win the bet easily. Just kidding, but not entirely. Doesn't anyone value reputation? Where I sell my name is on the board when the calves are in the ring.

I do not want to judge, but I always felt bad when I had a calf bring more than I thought it was worth. I have sometimes informed the yard about a calf or bred cow that I was selling that looked good but might have problems, and they just sort of laughed and said, "It is not a game for boys". A...

I think "fad" has a lot to do with it. People will pay money for the distinction of being part of the "in" crowd. For some reason, black cattle are perceived to be worth more. It goes beyond just the dollars and cents.

It is not just CAB. Today all commodities are forced to "fit the box". That is how we get tomatoes that are pretty and red yet taste like cardboard, apples at Wal-Mart that look nice but are nigh inedible. Quality once paid in burley tobacco, but today few raise it at all. What happened to...

In 2013 I purchased a pen of 705 lb. Hereford heifers from the Hereford influence sale at Bluegrass South and took them home. This turned out to be the best deal I ever turned in the cattle business. Turned them out for the summer with a Red Poll bull I had at the time, a proven easy calver...

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