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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 112698" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>There is no special pricing. People who want the cattle bid against people who also want the cattle. The person who wants her the most wins. You can expect to pay anywhere between $50,000 to $1000 for a registered cow, heifer, or bull though most tend to be in the $1000-4,000 range and there are still a LOT of cattle below $2400 a head. The better the cow, the higher the price (in theory). I have seen cattle lower than they are now; but we are in an up portion of the cattle cycle so high commercial cattle prices are effecting the bottom end of the registered cattle game making $1000 cattle much harder to find. Theoretically when more people go in the cow business because of the current high prices that will eventually lead to more calves being produced which will lower prices and end herd expansions, which will lead to more people culling cows and heifers leading to a market flood and price plummett. If you are patient, the 3rd or 4th year of a down cycle (~2010???) is usually the best time to buy cattle; though the elite cattle remain pricy no matter how bad the rest of us are doing. There are more Angus cattle out there than Herefords (though both breeds are massive enough to provide any level of selection easily); but I think the prices in the registered game of all the major breeds are about the same. It is possible to condemn any of the breeds by focusing on their least profitable examples. Likewise it is just as possible to assemble a very functional set of cows from any of the major breeds. I would spend more time learning about cattle type and selecting which type I want; because there is now so much genetic diversity within the breeds that you can select a set of cattle to fit almost any type and frame requirement from within almost any breed. Trying to raise a type of cattle which doesn't fit your particular management and climate is more of a problem than picking the wrong breed. As was pointed out in another string there have been frame score 1 up to frame 10 Angus and Herefords win stock shows in just the past 50 years(though most of us now try to stay away from those extremes).</p><p></p><p>If you want some internet browsing, try these links:</p><p><a href="http://hereford.org/tailored.aspx" target="_blank">http://hereford.org/tailored.aspx</a></p><p><a href="http://www.angus.org/" target="_blank">http://www.angus.org/</a></p><p>While I am inclined (at this point) to prefer only the two breeds you were originally interested in; it does not hurt to see what the rest of the cattle business is doing...</p><p></p><p><a href="http://limousin.o/" target="_blank">http://limousin.o/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.charolaisusa.com/tailored.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.charolaisusa.com/tailored.aspx</a></p><p><a href="http://www.beefmasters.org/main/" target="_blank">http://www.beefmasters.org/main/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.simmental.org/" target="_blank">http://www.simmental.org/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/" target="_blank">http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 112698, member: 2095"] There is no special pricing. People who want the cattle bid against people who also want the cattle. The person who wants her the most wins. You can expect to pay anywhere between $50,000 to $1000 for a registered cow, heifer, or bull though most tend to be in the $1000-4,000 range and there are still a LOT of cattle below $2400 a head. The better the cow, the higher the price (in theory). I have seen cattle lower than they are now; but we are in an up portion of the cattle cycle so high commercial cattle prices are effecting the bottom end of the registered cattle game making $1000 cattle much harder to find. Theoretically when more people go in the cow business because of the current high prices that will eventually lead to more calves being produced which will lower prices and end herd expansions, which will lead to more people culling cows and heifers leading to a market flood and price plummett. If you are patient, the 3rd or 4th year of a down cycle (~2010???) is usually the best time to buy cattle; though the elite cattle remain pricy no matter how bad the rest of us are doing. There are more Angus cattle out there than Herefords (though both breeds are massive enough to provide any level of selection easily); but I think the prices in the registered game of all the major breeds are about the same. It is possible to condemn any of the breeds by focusing on their least profitable examples. Likewise it is just as possible to assemble a very functional set of cows from any of the major breeds. I would spend more time learning about cattle type and selecting which type I want; because there is now so much genetic diversity within the breeds that you can select a set of cattle to fit almost any type and frame requirement from within almost any breed. Trying to raise a type of cattle which doesn't fit your particular management and climate is more of a problem than picking the wrong breed. As was pointed out in another string there have been frame score 1 up to frame 10 Angus and Herefords win stock shows in just the past 50 years(though most of us now try to stay away from those extremes). If you want some internet browsing, try these links: [url=http://hereford.org/tailored.aspx]http://hereford.org/tailored.aspx[/url] [url=http://www.angus.org/]http://www.angus.org/[/url] While I am inclined (at this point) to prefer only the two breeds you were originally interested in; it does not hurt to see what the rest of the cattle business is doing... [url=http://limousin.o/]http://limousin.o/[/url] [url=http://www.charolaisusa.com/tailored.aspx]http://www.charolaisusa.com/tailored.aspx[/url] [url=http://www.beefmasters.org/main/]http://www.beefmasters.org/main/[/url] [url=http://www.simmental.org/]http://www.simmental.org/[/url] [url=http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/]http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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