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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 17318"><p>> Thanks for the info; what I am</p><p>> having a hard time getting past is</p><p>> that you will generally pay more</p><p>> for purebreds, yet, it seems that</p><p>> if you are in it for an income and</p><p>> sell your cattle at auction, they</p><p>> will not bring more per pound (am</p><p>> I wrong?) than the cheaper</p><p>> crossbreds. This confuses me, and</p><p>> generated my question as to the</p><p>> reasons in favor of purebreds.</p><p>> Thanks again! Scott</p><p></p><p>I am fairly new to the cattle business. When I was deciding as to how to run my small business I looked at Marketing options. We settled on purebred Red Angus. This allowed us a lot of marketing options. Our top end bulls are sold as bulls for a premium over commercial market prices. The bottom end is steered off and feed up and sold locally for a premium. Heifers are sold as show calves replacements and bottom end are sold as beef. We market the beef calves as 100% Red Angus and have the papers to prove it and we can tell the buyer exactly what the animal was fed and any treatments it received. We also buy our feed direct from the local farmers at 10 cents over market price per 100 wt. so we save a bundle. Any thing else can be sold into the commercial rout but I try to avoid that if possible (you are left to the mercy of the buyer). If you can't beat the market go around it. But don't think that you can buy your way into the breeder market. Those who start out buying high priced big named cattle thinking they will make it big will go broke shortly. Buy great cattle at a reasonable price. They can be found at the smaller breeders but you need to be very discerning as to what you are looking at and their program.</p><p></p><p>Tod</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 17318"] > Thanks for the info; what I am > having a hard time getting past is > that you will generally pay more > for purebreds, yet, it seems that > if you are in it for an income and > sell your cattle at auction, they > will not bring more per pound (am > I wrong?) than the cheaper > crossbreds. This confuses me, and > generated my question as to the > reasons in favor of purebreds. > Thanks again! Scott I am fairly new to the cattle business. When I was deciding as to how to run my small business I looked at Marketing options. We settled on purebred Red Angus. This allowed us a lot of marketing options. Our top end bulls are sold as bulls for a premium over commercial market prices. The bottom end is steered off and feed up and sold locally for a premium. Heifers are sold as show calves replacements and bottom end are sold as beef. We market the beef calves as 100% Red Angus and have the papers to prove it and we can tell the buyer exactly what the animal was fed and any treatments it received. We also buy our feed direct from the local farmers at 10 cents over market price per 100 wt. so we save a bundle. Any thing else can be sold into the commercial rout but I try to avoid that if possible (you are left to the mercy of the buyer). If you can't beat the market go around it. But don’t think that you can buy your way into the breeder market. Those who start out buying high priced big named cattle thinking they will make it big will go broke shortly. Buy great cattle at a reasonable price. They can be found at the smaller breeders but you need to be very discerning as to what you are looking at and their program. Tod [/QUOTE]
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