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1st pasture rotation this year & 3rd year clover (pics)
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<blockquote data-quote="agmantoo" data-source="post: 757526" data-attributes="member: 8973"><p>SRBeef</p><p>Why do I calve year round? The main reason is financial. I sell calves at least 4 times a year. I like the cash flow but that is just a small portion of why. The main why is the fluctuations in the market. Ag products tend to be lower when the market is flooded. When a commodity is harvested and there is an abundance the price will typically drop. By sending feeder calves to market when the supply is not excessive I feel that I tend to get a better price as I am not selling into what could be an over supply. I realize this is not a perfect plan but worst case I strongly feel that I will end up over the year with the market average. It may not be the market high but it should not be the market low either. Getting the average is better than the risks IMO. Other reasons for calving year round are it spreads the work out. I am a one man show. My bull only has to service approximately 8 cows a month and I get by with a single mature bull and a yearling bull as backup. I have been told numerous times that I can not run heifers with the herd because I will have heifers that are too young getting bred. That has not happened! I did not understand the reason but I had a very wise man give me some insight as to why. He told me that since I had a closed herd that the mature bull was the patriarch and as new male calves were born into the herd they remained subservient and did not or would not aggressively breed their siblings. He said if I introduced an outside young bull I would have problems. I cannot argue with his explanation as he has been correct. My heifers tend to calve at 24 to 27 months of age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agmantoo, post: 757526, member: 8973"] SRBeef Why do I calve year round? The main reason is financial. I sell calves at least 4 times a year. I like the cash flow but that is just a small portion of why. The main why is the fluctuations in the market. Ag products tend to be lower when the market is flooded. When a commodity is harvested and there is an abundance the price will typically drop. By sending feeder calves to market when the supply is not excessive I feel that I tend to get a better price as I am not selling into what could be an over supply. I realize this is not a perfect plan but worst case I strongly feel that I will end up over the year with the market average. It may not be the market high but it should not be the market low either. Getting the average is better than the risks IMO. Other reasons for calving year round are it spreads the work out. I am a one man show. My bull only has to service approximately 8 cows a month and I get by with a single mature bull and a yearling bull as backup. I have been told numerous times that I can not run heifers with the herd because I will have heifers that are too young getting bred. That has not happened! I did not understand the reason but I had a very wise man give me some insight as to why. He told me that since I had a closed herd that the mature bull was the patriarch and as new male calves were born into the herd they remained subservient and did not or would not aggressively breed their siblings. He said if I introduced an outside young bull I would have problems. I cannot argue with his explanation as he has been correct. My heifers tend to calve at 24 to 27 months of age. [/QUOTE]
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