Thank you Alacowman. He is the registered cleanup bull that my neighbor offered to let me use for free with my Brahman heifers. Other cattlemen have had success crossing the Hudgins and Gardiner lines of Brahman and Black Angus respectively. What I like about him is that he is the pick out of about 60 for performance on native pasture. The group of cows he came from suffered some hard times and hard culling when the young guy who bought them with a federal loan skipped town and left them to starve in the drought.
Bottom line is all about the market and input costs. I am talking to people everyday who say, "I've gotta get $3-$4 lb for those heifers because that's what I've got in 'em." If the people who know a lot more than me about Gardiner line Angus bulls think he is worth using, I would like to use him and be able to make a small profit even if I have to sell at $0.80/lb.