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<blockquote data-quote="kjonesel" data-source="post: 1248123" data-attributes="member: 16842"><p>In any business there will be those "customers" who have no problem with taking all they can get from someone. They are the ones who weren't going to come back unless they could find a bargain. You hate to miss a sale to them but you have to realize they weren't your customers, they were just someone who happened to find that what you had was the best deal available. What I have noticed over the past several years are several small breeders with maybe less than a half dozen bulls are teaming up with maybe a mid sized breeder to make a nice regional bull auction. I have watched the university test sell the past two sells and over half of the bulls would have made just as much money, after you take out the fees and the extra handling costs, marketing them as steers. In our area the majority of the herds are less than 40 cows and over half the bulls are what are labeled sale barn bulls. You could talk till your blue in the face and they won 't pay an extra dollar over market for a bull. </p><p>Another problem with gearing your operation to sustain itself with the sale of registered bulls is what you do when the cattle market goes south like it did a few years ago. I keep a registered herd but I justify it for different reasons. I am able to record bloodlines, I can see the results of different matings, and by doing this I am able to improve my female base which is my goal and the bulls are a sideline with my bread and butter selling market cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kjonesel, post: 1248123, member: 16842"] In any business there will be those "customers" who have no problem with taking all they can get from someone. They are the ones who weren't going to come back unless they could find a bargain. You hate to miss a sale to them but you have to realize they weren't your customers, they were just someone who happened to find that what you had was the best deal available. What I have noticed over the past several years are several small breeders with maybe less than a half dozen bulls are teaming up with maybe a mid sized breeder to make a nice regional bull auction. I have watched the university test sell the past two sells and over half of the bulls would have made just as much money, after you take out the fees and the extra handling costs, marketing them as steers. In our area the majority of the herds are less than 40 cows and over half the bulls are what are labeled sale barn bulls. You could talk till your blue in the face and they won 't pay an extra dollar over market for a bull. Another problem with gearing your operation to sustain itself with the sale of registered bulls is what you do when the cattle market goes south like it did a few years ago. I keep a registered herd but I justify it for different reasons. I am able to record bloodlines, I can see the results of different matings, and by doing this I am able to improve my female base which is my goal and the bulls are a sideline with my bread and butter selling market cattle. [/QUOTE]
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