strihafarms":cwbceod7 said:
My hope is to add an elite quality bull each year from now on by when you have to replace as much as I did this year one elite bull is all I could afford.
Believe me, I understand your angst and eagerness to improve the genetics of your seed stock and the performance of your
future progeny's $Values! The is the 'touchstone' of your entire future Beef Cattle business. This is the exciting and explosive opportunity that every breeder has with the advent of AI and the 50K Molecular Value Predictions available through DNA Markings. You can
fine-tune your future breeding protocols by carefully studying the available AI bulls -World wide - and their genetic potential, BALANCED EPD's and DNA markings, and come up with a breeding cow herd exactly to your desires, without breaking the bank or going bankrupt. Using donors, flushing them, AND recipient females with AI can result in securing a breeding herd in six years or less that will make you MONEY!
And isn't that the name of the game?? Or - would you rather play "Button, Button, Who's Got The Button" for the rest of your Beef Cattle Breeding Life - and just take a chance on getting a few pretty good calves for replacement heifers which could require thirty years in finally achieving the quality cattle that you really desire?
Cattle prices are going to remain HIGH for a long time, primarily because the World population is NOT going to subside, and people must have Protein to subsist. Beef consumption is the "tastiest" method of acquiring and obtaining that mandatory protein for a human body to exist. And they are willing to pay good money to get something good to eat.
I like your Bull.
DOC HARRIS
