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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 24940" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Some of our marketing group members went up to IA and into NE on a week long tour of feedots and alked with owners/managers and viewed a lot of cattle and facilities.</p><p>Several of the feedlots in IA were all red some a mixture of red and black, very few with any Hereford look to them. Several of them won't tough a Hereford or baldy. Some were almost entirely black. The primarily black places said they prefer them because of the possible extra income from CAB. They're willing to gamble that a percentage of them will make CAB and that those that do will more then make up for the extra they had to pay for those that didn't make it. We didn't discuss much about NE other then there is a feedlot that the calves are all in a entirely enclosed building. </p><p>They dropped through KS and found that there they liked the baldy calves over most anything else.</p><p>They all universally agreed that nervous cattle are a pain in the butt and don't make them any money. Most of them will seperate out the dingbats and feed them seperatly from the others. That helps the calmer cattle gain and finish younger/sooner/cheaper.</p><p>The part that I found interesting was the variation between what particular feedlots like.</p><p>I guess what it all goes back to is know your market. If the primary feedlot buying calves in your area want green with pink spots you need to get hot at developing that color pattern. The feeders aren't going to buy something that they won't make money on. It may be the greatest potload of calves that ever drew a breath, but if they can't market them to the slaughterhouse they don't want them. BTW, one of the feedlots finished second in the Angus carcass competition. They had a pen of steers, the winner was a pen of heifers. I've heard about this over the years but I don't know how it works or what it is. Maybe some of the blk Angus folks could enlighten.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 24940, member: 34"] Some of our marketing group members went up to IA and into NE on a week long tour of feedots and alked with owners/managers and viewed a lot of cattle and facilities. Several of the feedlots in IA were all red some a mixture of red and black, very few with any Hereford look to them. Several of them won't tough a Hereford or baldy. Some were almost entirely black. The primarily black places said they prefer them because of the possible extra income from CAB. They're willing to gamble that a percentage of them will make CAB and that those that do will more then make up for the extra they had to pay for those that didn't make it. We didn't discuss much about NE other then there is a feedlot that the calves are all in a entirely enclosed building. They dropped through KS and found that there they liked the baldy calves over most anything else. They all universally agreed that nervous cattle are a pain in the butt and don't make them any money. Most of them will seperate out the dingbats and feed them seperatly from the others. That helps the calmer cattle gain and finish younger/sooner/cheaper. The part that I found interesting was the variation between what particular feedlots like. I guess what it all goes back to is know your market. If the primary feedlot buying calves in your area want green with pink spots you need to get hot at developing that color pattern. The feeders aren't going to buy something that they won't make money on. It may be the greatest potload of calves that ever drew a breath, but if they can't market them to the slaughterhouse they don't want them. BTW, one of the feedlots finished second in the Angus carcass competition. They had a pen of steers, the winner was a pen of heifers. I've heard about this over the years but I don't know how it works or what it is. Maybe some of the blk Angus folks could enlighten. dun [/QUOTE]
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