Yes, a 600 lb calf at $1.60 brings more than a 450 lb calf at $2. Down here, you just want them to be as big as they can get in 6 months tops. Most people rent pasture at 2 payments a year, so if you have a fall crop and a spring crop, you want to sell at rent time. When we had the Kudzu Corriente herd, they all calved in February and we sold them end of August. Like now. We'd be down there the week before dove season ( opens Saturday), and we'd round them up and haul them to the sale that week. Last year out of 108 Corrientes bred to Ultra Black bulls, the smallest heifer was 438 and the largest steer was around 530 something. 25 years ago when I had those Chi-Holstein and Chi- Brahma cows, their calves would get to over 400 in 4 months. Dunno why we were all in such a hurry to get rid of them... rain and pasture is hardly ever an issue here. While the west and midwest have been in a drought, people down here with a pair to the acre, were having to keep the pastures bush-hogged. Several times. A lot of people are baling again this week, too.