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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 782377" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Historically down here if you market in the fall runs the stocker guys (who winter the calves on cropland planted in annuals like winter wheat and rye grass as a cover crop to protect the ground from erosion) buy the four weight calves and bid up the price. If calves get above 550 lbs it will be too heavy for them when they market the calves before planting so the feedlots are the only buyers for the heavier calves. And the fall is when the feedlots have all the calves they need. I have sold loads where 485 lb calves born at the end of the calving season brought the same to a little bit more than 75% sibs weighing 725 born in the first days of the season. I don't know that I would change genetics to get weaning weights below 500 lbs, but as you get farther past 500 lbs (historically) in market weight the rewards per 25 lbs of body weight get progressively smaller. One would think that higher grain prices will mean that heavier calves would do a little better but somebody needs to show me the math on that one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 782377, member: 7645"] Historically down here if you market in the fall runs the stocker guys (who winter the calves on cropland planted in annuals like winter wheat and rye grass as a cover crop to protect the ground from erosion) buy the four weight calves and bid up the price. If calves get above 550 lbs it will be too heavy for them when they market the calves before planting so the feedlots are the only buyers for the heavier calves. And the fall is when the feedlots have all the calves they need. I have sold loads where 485 lb calves born at the end of the calving season brought the same to a little bit more than 75% sibs weighing 725 born in the first days of the season. I don't know that I would change genetics to get weaning weights below 500 lbs, but as you get farther past 500 lbs (historically) in market weight the rewards per 25 lbs of body weight get progressively smaller. One would think that higher grain prices will mean that heavier calves would do a little better but somebody needs to show me the math on that one. [/QUOTE]
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