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<blockquote data-quote="Douglas" data-source="post: 653410" data-attributes="member: 8840"><p>We need to remember that feeders that can make a profit can pay more for heifers and steers than when they are not. Over the long term the feeder is my customer, and in any business you have to try to solve your customer's problems to succeed. I am also in the construction business and there is a legal term "latent defect" that protects buyers from a defect he could not found with a reasonable inspection upon buying. There is no way a buyer during an auction could detect a recently pregnant heifer in the ring. </p><p>What you also have to remember that if a number of pregnant heifers becomes just part of the cost of doing business, the guys with the pregnant heifers are taking money from the guys who spent the time and money to keep it from happening to his heifers, because everyone is getting a lower average price.</p><p>In other words, we are all in this crazy thing together, and we need to improve the efficiency of the whole system any way we can. I just had a replacement heifer have a calf at 17 months and was lucky the both made it okay, but I could have easily sold that heifer last fall not knowing she was pregnant. I will do my best to never let that happen again because it is the right thing to do. And some people will only do the right thing if it cost them money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Douglas, post: 653410, member: 8840"] We need to remember that feeders that can make a profit can pay more for heifers and steers than when they are not. Over the long term the feeder is my customer, and in any business you have to try to solve your customer’s problems to succeed. I am also in the construction business and there is a legal term “latent defect” that protects buyers from a defect he could not found with a reasonable inspection upon buying. There is no way a buyer during an auction could detect a recently pregnant heifer in the ring. What you also have to remember that if a number of pregnant heifers becomes just part of the cost of doing business, the guys with the pregnant heifers are taking money from the guys who spent the time and money to keep it from happening to his heifers, because everyone is getting a lower average price. In other words, we are all in this crazy thing together, and we need to improve the efficiency of the whole system any way we can. I just had a replacement heifer have a calf at 17 months and was lucky the both made it okay, but I could have easily sold that heifer last fall not knowing she was pregnant. I will do my best to never let that happen again because it is the right thing to do. And some people will only do the right thing if it cost them money. [/QUOTE]
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