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Does more pounds per acre make up for being docked at the sale barn for small frame size?
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<blockquote data-quote="Silver" data-source="post: 1827215" data-attributes="member: 12520"><p>My neighbour runs enough cows he has to calve on grass. Depending on the year there might be 3000 head to calve out. </p><p>He buys in a lot of winter feed (hay and grain), feeds with TMR's, always has a liner or two on the road hauling something somewhere. His cows are small for up here, I would guess if they were in good shape they'd weigh 1200.</p><p>Weaned calves are in the 400 lb range when I've been there helping and driving by I'd think that would be as good as it gets. His inputs have got to be far more per cow than mine for my big cows, his profit per cow has to be a lot less. But he's working on economy of scale and it seems to be working for him. Point being there are different business models that work.</p><p>I would go broke running the same number of cows I do now and weaning 300 lbs less per cow. I feel I'm running as many cows as I want to, so running 25% more cows isn't going to happen. So this business model calls for less cows with better weaning weights.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver, post: 1827215, member: 12520"] My neighbour runs enough cows he has to calve on grass. Depending on the year there might be 3000 head to calve out. He buys in a lot of winter feed (hay and grain), feeds with TMR’s, always has a liner or two on the road hauling something somewhere. His cows are small for up here, I would guess if they were in good shape they’d weigh 1200. Weaned calves are in the 400 lb range when I’ve been there helping and driving by I’d think that would be as good as it gets. His inputs have got to be far more per cow than mine for my big cows, his profit per cow has to be a lot less. But he’s working on economy of scale and it seems to be working for him. Point being there are different business models that work. I would go broke running the same number of cows I do now and weaning 300 lbs less per cow. I feel I’m running as many cows as I want to, so running 25% more cows isn’t going to happen. So this business model calls for less cows with better weaning weights. [/QUOTE]
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