I have seen his calves, nothing really to shake a stick at. He only buys the low priced gardiner bulls, and as the saying goes: cheap s&*t ain't good, and good s&$t ain't cheap.
I am not going to change what I am doing, he won't change. He only does what the manager of the herd says to do. And right now that is buy black cows and only run black bulls. I told him that I didn't care if he didn't buy one of my bulls, but at least buy something other then angus bulls. Every year the neighbors char bull jumps the fence and breeds 10 cows or so, and every year those chars out weigh the angus by 100lbs or more. But grandpa is proud of his black cattle, and refuses to change even with the results in front of him. It makes little business sense, and that is what bothers me more then anything. And I assume that most everyone knows at least one person who is the same. In my opinion that is what is driving the (from perspective) depreciation of angus cattle. If you can sell bulls every 30 seconds for a minimium of $2500 why cull.
By the way this is my married into grandpa, which makes it even more tricky to attempt to talk sense into him.