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Do your cows eat GRASS??
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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 329450" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>Exactly, most ranches COULD plant a field of corn if we had to too supplement cows and precondition calves(that probably will pay at $4 a bushel) and with winter annuals, stockpiling grass, better hay etc we could wean the cow herd off of grain supplements.....but where the ethanol think hits is in what the feedlots are having too pay to take those calves from 600 lbs to 1100 lbs. All that increase in feed costs IS coming directly out of feeder calf price. </p><p></p><p>I am not in the beef industry brain trust which makes all the decisions; but I think we need to go back too backgrounding and stockering calves to 750++ lbs before any calf goes to the feedlot. I also think a smaller framed earlier maturing kind of calf (frame 3-5) that goes into the feedlot and finishes quickly (less than 150 days) SHOULD be the gold standard of the business now. Either that or jettison the quality grade. Weaning calves straight to the feedlot then feeding them for 200+++ days trying to hit CAB just isn't going too pay unless you got the calf for nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 329450, member: 2095"] Exactly, most ranches COULD plant a field of corn if we had to too supplement cows and precondition calves(that probably will pay at $4 a bushel) and with winter annuals, stockpiling grass, better hay etc we could wean the cow herd off of grain supplements.....but where the ethanol think hits is in what the feedlots are having too pay to take those calves from 600 lbs to 1100 lbs. All that increase in feed costs IS coming directly out of feeder calf price. I am not in the beef industry brain trust which makes all the decisions; but I think we need to go back too backgrounding and stockering calves to 750++ lbs before any calf goes to the feedlot. I also think a smaller framed earlier maturing kind of calf (frame 3-5) that goes into the feedlot and finishes quickly (less than 150 days) SHOULD be the gold standard of the business now. Either that or jettison the quality grade. Weaning calves straight to the feedlot then feeding them for 200+++ days trying to hit CAB just isn't going too pay unless you got the calf for nothing. [/QUOTE]
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