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<blockquote data-quote="Jake" data-source="post: 728737" data-attributes="member: 4"><p>Not really sure how to take those last comments but anyways... The cows weighed 1112 avg and brought .32 cents. Since we aren't blessed with excess pasture they would have had to leave around grass time. Putting weight on an old cow takes a lot of feed this time of year and if you split the pairs in the spring and get .30-35 cents out of the cow and $100-150 for the young hereford calf there isn't exactly that much profit in them. Sure "sell them as pairs" but the likely hood of an old hereford pair going back to the farm in this region is slim to none.</p><p></p><p>I'll agree if you can run them part way through the summer and get the calf to weigh up some and the cow fleshed up it would be easier to turn a profit. But when your not set up for absorbing 10 cows with an uncertain grass season ahead not as safe a bet as some make it out to be. If your cards line up right there's a lot of profit to be made, turn the wrong card over it's a lot of excess work for a break even.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jake, post: 728737, member: 4"] Not really sure how to take those last comments but anyways... The cows weighed 1112 avg and brought .32 cents. Since we aren't blessed with excess pasture they would have had to leave around grass time. Putting weight on an old cow takes a lot of feed this time of year and if you split the pairs in the spring and get .30-35 cents out of the cow and $100-150 for the young hereford calf there isn't exactly that much profit in them. Sure "sell them as pairs" but the likely hood of an old hereford pair going back to the farm in this region is slim to none. I'll agree if you can run them part way through the summer and get the calf to weigh up some and the cow fleshed up it would be easier to turn a profit. But when your not set up for absorbing 10 cows with an uncertain grass season ahead not as safe a bet as some make it out to be. If your cards line up right there's a lot of profit to be made, turn the wrong card over it's a lot of excess work for a break even. [/QUOTE]
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