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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 554073" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Supply follows demand. IF the semen purchasers are just worried about raising calves who win their class at the State Fair, the market will provide that. Likewise if semen purchasers are hyper sensitive about finding a bull that will cost them the least problems on first calf heifers, the bull studs will scour the countryside to find the lowest birth weight EPD heifer bulls that money can buy. IF yearling weight EPD is the only thing that floats your boat, the bull studs will go out and find those bulls in the top 3 % of their breed for the growth traits. Ditto with milk or carcass traits. Any time you focus too much on any one thing other traits tend to suffer. IF the buyers ever demand functional, long lasting, productive cattle from their bull studs, I am confident that the bull studs will provide that. Until then, every bull stud has too have the freaks with the longest hair, the lowest birth weight, the heaviest weaning weight, the highest Milk EPD, the highest IMF EPD, the highest $EN, or the highest $B (or $CHB or whatever) in order to satisfy the buyers whose focus is on that trait or two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 554073, member: 7645"] Supply follows demand. IF the semen purchasers are just worried about raising calves who win their class at the State Fair, the market will provide that. Likewise if semen purchasers are hyper sensitive about finding a bull that will cost them the least problems on first calf heifers, the bull studs will scour the countryside to find the lowest birth weight EPD heifer bulls that money can buy. IF yearling weight EPD is the only thing that floats your boat, the bull studs will go out and find those bulls in the top 3 % of their breed for the growth traits. Ditto with milk or carcass traits. Any time you focus too much on any one thing other traits tend to suffer. IF the buyers ever demand functional, long lasting, productive cattle from their bull studs, I am confident that the bull studs will provide that. Until then, every bull stud has too have the freaks with the longest hair, the lowest birth weight, the heaviest weaning weight, the highest Milk EPD, the highest IMF EPD, the highest $EN, or the highest $B (or $CHB or whatever) in order to satisfy the buyers whose focus is on that trait or two. [/QUOTE]
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