Before you start buying, now is the time you should decide what kind of herd you are looking to keep...........a registered herd with excellent EPD's, a good purebred commercial herd, or a simple grade herd.
It costs no more to feed either one, but of course the initial start up can present quite a difference in price between any of them.
Decide what your market will be for the finished product.
Resale of purebreds and or registered?
Sale of calves each fall or spring?
Sale of beef? Whne we sell beef, we DON"T pick out the top cattle in our herd to slaughter. of course just the opposite.