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<blockquote data-quote="CattleMan1920" data-source="post: 1549590" data-attributes="member: 37967"><p>Thank you for your comment, really appreciate what you said. But, let me say this, we get trashed all the time, when we first put the collars on the cattle and were the first beef herd in the United States to use it throughout a beef operation, as per Dairymaster in Ireland, the locals howled, like coyotes! They laughed, made jokes, even Windstream joked when installing broadband in our barns "are your cattle checking their Facebook and Instagram" Haha! It didn't make me mad, who cares. </p><p></p><p>We use a lot of technology, our cattle are monitored very closely, I get a heat alert, and the cow is on the back of the farm, no problem, I use a DJI Mavic Pro Zoom drone, go check it out and see what's happening in minutes. I don't kill myself taking care of this herd. Work smart, not hard. </p><p></p><p>Here is the funny thing about all the ribbing and comments about us not doing things like Grandpappy did....we will have around 50 calves in 2019 sired by some the premier sires in the Angus breed. In 2020 even more than that. We develop nearly every female from within, those we buy are from a highly respected operation with proven success. Very few if any Angus producers can say that and prove it. I don't look down on our local cattlemen, but to the few that crack jokes, I'm looking forward to comparing our progress in 10 years. </p><p></p><p>As for the 205 weights, they are very important, if you are weaning at 205 in the 400-500 range as many do around here, you are like a salmon swimming upstream. Any serious cattleman will tell you that big 205 weights are preferable. I found, and it's not rocket science, that big healthy cows bred to top sires produce heavy weaning calves. And thank you for pointing out that at the end of the day, maternal traits are very important to us. A big portion of our females are granddaughters of Blackcap May 4136 or Baldridge Isabel Y69, with a lot more on the way. If those cows don't cut the mustard for y'all I don't know what will please you. We just settled a 16 year old cow to SAV Elation, she has a SAV Raindance calf at her side. Is that a non performing cow? C'mon!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleMan1920, post: 1549590, member: 37967"] Thank you for your comment, really appreciate what you said. But, let me say this, we get trashed all the time, when we first put the collars on the cattle and were the first beef herd in the United States to use it throughout a beef operation, as per Dairymaster in Ireland, the locals howled, like coyotes! They laughed, made jokes, even Windstream joked when installing broadband in our barns “are your cattle checking their Facebook and Instagram” Haha! It didn’t make me mad, who cares. We use a lot of technology, our cattle are monitored very closely, I get a heat alert, and the cow is on the back of the farm, no problem, I use a DJI Mavic Pro Zoom drone, go check it out and see what’s happening in minutes. I don’t kill myself taking care of this herd. Work smart, not hard. Here is the funny thing about all the ribbing and comments about us not doing things like Grandpappy did....we will have around 50 calves in 2019 sired by some the premier sires in the Angus breed. In 2020 even more than that. We develop nearly every female from within, those we buy are from a highly respected operation with proven success. Very few if any Angus producers can say that and prove it. I don’t look down on our local cattlemen, but to the few that crack jokes, I’m looking forward to comparing our progress in 10 years. As for the 205 weights, they are very important, if you are weaning at 205 in the 400-500 range as many do around here, you are like a salmon swimming upstream. Any serious cattleman will tell you that big 205 weights are preferable. I found, and it’s not rocket science, that big healthy cows bred to top sires produce heavy weaning calves. And thank you for pointing out that at the end of the day, maternal traits are very important to us. A big portion of our females are granddaughters of Blackcap May 4136 or Baldridge Isabel Y69, with a lot more on the way. If those cows don’t cut the mustard for y’all I don’t know what will please you. We just settled a 16 year old cow to SAV Elation, she has a SAV Raindance calf at her side. Is that a non performing cow? C’mon! [/QUOTE]
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