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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 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.

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...

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...

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...

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".

A thousand head is a big beef herd; but if you slaughter 4 days a week times 50 weeks a year that would only be 5 head per working day. At two sides per steer, that is only 40 whole ribeyes and 40 whole sirloins per week. A modest steakhouse or grocery store would use more product than that...

I don't think it is so much, finding no faults at all; but what degree of flaw. There is a difference between being acceptably 'sickle hocked' and being so 'sickle hocked' that soundness is in doubt.

I agree completely. If you want 5 or 6 of the cows just buy them yourself when they run through the ring. 30 cows on 15 acres (if they are fed well enough too gain) is going to cost a good bit.

Yes. The Angus association only cares about the parents the genetics comes from. The sire and the donor dam both have to be registered for the calf to be registerable. The recipient could be (and often is) a Holstein. All she does is raise the calf for you. Whether the recipient cow is a...

No association that I am aware of (unless something has radically changed) includes any of the performance data from an ET calf in EPD calculations.

WHY would you buy registered cows to use as recipients of some other cow's embryo?

Corn stalks??? Heck they baled the whole plant around here. There dang sure wasn't nothing to combine unless you irrigated and with $3 diesal I doubt that pumping water paid.

Yes, that is exactly what I expect to be the norm if these grain prices stay up. At those prices....the 275 lb heifers would bring $247 a head. 400 lb heifers would bring $380. 475 lb heifers would bring $451. 530 lb heifers would bring $503 and 608 lb heifers would bring $526. Essentially...

Exactly, Hereford won't sell you a registration cert on a non Registered Hereford but they will let you keep your records on all of your cows (Hereford or not) through them for a fee of course.

BUT don't you know this going in???? An investor is like borrowing money from a bank. He is going to have to get HIS or there is going to be problems. Whether that is a fat CHECK every six months or a growing herd (growing equity) or (preferably) both you need to be able to show an investor...

I am talking about weaning weight. For years it has been a little frustrating too bring 6 weight calves to the barn and see the 4 weight calf out of the latest breeding cow in the herd bring the most actual money. A lot of people wean their calves at ~400 lbs knowing that price per pound is...

Historically, the lighter the calf the higher the price per pound; but (HISTORICALLY) corn was often below $2 a bushel. Light calves PAID because you could put 800-900 lbs of weight on them with cheap grain. Now that grain (and hay) has doubled (or more) there is not nearly as much profit in...

I kinda have to agree. Nothing against regular folks; but you really don't want to be heavily partnered with somebody who will need to sell out if they miss two weeks of work, their wife wants to remodel the kitchen, their kid needs braces, they have a sudden urge to buy a bassboat, or they...