CattleMan1920
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WinterSpringsFarm said:Dogs and Cows said:Still wondering if Branded has a demand for 1 ton cows or if this is a pet project?
Pretty sure he is a young kid getting in here talking with the big boys. At least that's how I feel when I read his posts.
Thank you for the compliment, I'm definitely not young, and wish I were a kid again. I like going against the grain, when the crowd is headed one way, I take the opposite side of the trade. The crowd is almost always wrong, and the "high CED, low birthweight" crowd will be VERY WRONG!
Kentucky in the next few years will have some of the sorriest looking Angus you have ever seen. Probably some of the worst in the country because there is a race on to see how small they can make them. They will be PUNY, small pelvic measurements on the heifers, frame will be gone on the bulls. 205 weights at 450 will be the average, if not lower. Mark my word on this. I'm not dependent on selling to cost share participants or meeting those requirements. I'm breeding strictly how I want to, not how I HAVE TO, and dealing with clients that don't use those programs. Kind of like "Build it and they will come" theory.
UK, in my opinion, does a phenomenal job of SPENDING insane amounts of cash on cool things all over their research farms, building nifty feeding and watering systems, but when it comes to genetics, they fall on their face. Follow them at your own peril in my opinion. My gaze is fixed in a different direction. Oh by the way UK and Morehead, if you are reading this, frequent AI classes and incentives to AI would go much further in improving the herd in Kentucky rather than the current programs you push, How about MONTHLY AI classes with top instructors at both universities? You only have 15-20 head? How about AI to improve what you have instead of staying in the gutter for years and years using $1000 bulls? I guess I'm hoping for WAY TOO MUCH, right?
I would say that SAV or Connealy are VASTLY ahead in the knowledge of Angus genetics as compared to that of tenured professors at our AG depts in Kentucky, and to think those two programs don't have endowments propping them up.
On a side note, I snapped this photo yesterday. One of our "big, fat cows" doing what they ALL do daily, CLIMB HILLS. These gals are forced to do more hills than someone in a cross fit class. Not a day goes by that they are not going up and down hills. I get the feeling that you all think they are in a tightly confined lot being fed beer and massaged for hours, that's not the case.