Dave
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Bestoutwest":31lgje8q said:Dave":31lgje8q said:The vast majority of the cows around here are Angus, Herefords, Charolais, red Angus, or crosses of those breeds. More black hided cows than anything else. Some are pretty fleshy and others are pretty rangy. There is one outfit a little North of here that one one side of the road there is around 2,000 black and baldie cows all with black baldie calves. The other side of the road there is about 100 horned Hereford bulls. I think the main thing is that they are raised in this type of country.
If Beefmasters weren't so rare up here, I think they'd do well on your type of land. I know that over here near Boise, if you're selling at the barn it better be black or BWF/RWF or you're going to eat it hard.
Everyone is trying to build a better mouse trap. But the fact is that at this point nothing will beat a BWF in this country. Both for performance and sale price. There is a reason that guy with 2,000 cows is breeding for them.
There is a guy who I have met in Northern Nevada who has Beefmasters. I watched his calves sell on the video a couple of years in a row. Same sales my SIL and others from his neighborhood sold Angus, Red Angus, and Charolais calves. The dollar difference put in their pocket was huge.