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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 624628" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>The Angus Assn has been pushing (or at least until the $5 corn) heavily creep feeding the calf crop, preconditioning the weaned calves in a grain program, and marketing them straight to the feedlot. That plan will maximize the marbling; BUT we know most commercial cattle are not raised that way. Most commercial cattlemen do not feed grain daily to their growing calves in Spring, summer, and fall and a lot of them are weaned to a stocker program. Smaller framed "old style" earlier maturing cattle would go to the feedlot and "finish" at 1000 - 1200 lbs even if they had not been hand fed mixed feed all of their lives. Now that all we care about is the growth EPDs (and we can hang a lot of this on Charolais and Hereford as well as Angus) those bigger framed cattle don't grade like their smaller framed forbears, especially in the traditional grass type stockering programs and if you try to hold them on the feedlot LONGER they tend to lay on too much backfat and it is much harder for them too yield because most get adjusted down on the required REA for those heavy carcass weights. I thinjk the author is right; BUT there has to be a big Choice/select spread for lbs not to pay in the end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 624628, member: 7645"] The Angus Assn has been pushing (or at least until the $5 corn) heavily creep feeding the calf crop, preconditioning the weaned calves in a grain program, and marketing them straight to the feedlot. That plan will maximize the marbling; BUT we know most commercial cattle are not raised that way. Most commercial cattlemen do not feed grain daily to their growing calves in Spring, summer, and fall and a lot of them are weaned to a stocker program. Smaller framed "old style" earlier maturing cattle would go to the feedlot and "finish" at 1000 - 1200 lbs even if they had not been hand fed mixed feed all of their lives. Now that all we care about is the growth EPDs (and we can hang a lot of this on Charolais and Hereford as well as Angus) those bigger framed cattle don't grade like their smaller framed forbears, especially in the traditional grass type stockering programs and if you try to hold them on the feedlot LONGER they tend to lay on too much backfat and it is much harder for them too yield because most get adjusted down on the required REA for those heavy carcass weights. I thinjk the author is right; BUT there has to be a big Choice/select spread for lbs not to pay in the end. [/QUOTE]
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