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Cost of Using a Maternal Bull ?
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<blockquote data-quote="FungusProudKY31" data-source="post: 1646647" data-attributes="member: 40881"><p>The industry has been chasing higher WW for about 50 years. The problem is that either the economical environments (mainly forages) set the upper limit or the producers get the big calf and the open cow and quit that foolishness. So the average WW in the USA has not gone up that much. Back to the comparison of the chickens and hogs: when the integrators get folks locked in "you WILL" use their sires and their sires will be carcass producers and growth to the limit that will not hurt the marbling. But I do not think that their sires will all be or remain purebred or registered. The thing that has happened and folks have not said, as far as I know, the kill weights are much bigger and that is tied to decades of seeking the extra growth. They can feed for that and make money after the calves leave the farm or ranch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FungusProudKY31, post: 1646647, member: 40881"] The industry has been chasing higher WW for about 50 years. The problem is that either the economical environments (mainly forages) set the upper limit or the producers get the big calf and the open cow and quit that foolishness. So the average WW in the USA has not gone up that much. Back to the comparison of the chickens and hogs: when the integrators get folks locked in "you WILL" use their sires and their sires will be carcass producers and growth to the limit that will not hurt the marbling. But I do not think that their sires will all be or remain purebred or registered. The thing that has happened and folks have not said, as far as I know, the kill weights are much bigger and that is tied to decades of seeking the extra growth. They can feed for that and make money after the calves leave the farm or ranch. [/QUOTE]
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