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<blockquote data-quote="DLD" data-source="post: 1051380" data-attributes="member: 19707"><p>The #1 sire for number of calves registered in 2012 is SAV Final Answer 0035 with 6615. At $35 per certificate, that's $231,525 and at $30 for semen that's $198,450 in semen - just for those cows that settled and had calves that got registered... You could easily say 30% more semen was used (probably more) but there's another 1985 units of semen at $30 there's another $59,550. So that makes a total of $489,525 for one year. Final Answer is 13 years old, so even considering that most other years he didn't have that many calves - say an average of 2205 (33% of 2012) calves per year for 10 years there's $1,615,432.50 in semen and certificate sales alone. I truly believe that's a pretty conservative estimate.</p><p></p><p>So it's wrong to believe that there isn't truly huge amounts of real money in the registered Angus business. They aren't the industry leaders in promotion for nothing - not only have they succeeded in turning most of the cows in the U.S. black with their CAB program, they've created more of a market for premier genetics than any other breed. I've never been able to find the figures, but I'd bet that the percentage of AI sired calves registered is close to double that of any other beef breed. Add to that the money spent on the show ring, and you should start to realize how much money is actually being spent in the breed. Regardless of whether we see it as practical or reasonable, it's happening.</p><p></p><p>Does that mean that I believe all the sale ring prices to be honest? No, but I do believe that most of them are. If it was all show and no money, the show couldn't keep going forever...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DLD, post: 1051380, member: 19707"] The #1 sire for number of calves registered in 2012 is SAV Final Answer 0035 with 6615. At $35 per certificate, that's $231,525 and at $30 for semen that's $198,450 in semen - just for those cows that settled and had calves that got registered... You could easily say 30% more semen was used (probably more) but there's another 1985 units of semen at $30 there's another $59,550. So that makes a total of $489,525 for one year. Final Answer is 13 years old, so even considering that most other years he didn't have that many calves - say an average of 2205 (33% of 2012) calves per year for 10 years there's $1,615,432.50 in semen and certificate sales alone. I truly believe that's a pretty conservative estimate. So it's wrong to believe that there isn't truly huge amounts of real money in the registered Angus business. They aren't the industry leaders in promotion for nothing - not only have they succeeded in turning most of the cows in the U.S. black with their CAB program, they've created more of a market for premier genetics than any other breed. I've never been able to find the figures, but I'd bet that the percentage of AI sired calves registered is close to double that of any other beef breed. Add to that the money spent on the show ring, and you should start to realize how much money is actually being spent in the breed. Regardless of whether we see it as practical or reasonable, it's happening. Does that mean that I believe all the sale ring prices to be honest? No, but I do believe that most of them are. If it was all show and no money, the show couldn't keep going forever... [/QUOTE]
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