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I don't know what you are all complaining about
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<blockquote data-quote="Bcompton53" data-source="post: 1582922" data-attributes="member: 38094"><p>Obviously EPDs aren't everything. We've established that. But just looking at Americas numbers, and the accuracies of .05...Those numbers are less than worthless. It's interesting to watch the different facets of the cattle folks. The commercial guys just want to make a dollar or two on a good year, building their herd in whatever way makes that possible, in their location. If that means throwing in some Hereford or semmis or brahma, then that's what will happen. The club cattle folks, well, they are a breed of their own. Then some (not all!) of the purebred guys all trying to use the bull with the biggest political name, in the hopes of getting a couple of those super high dollar sales. The most fragile group seems to be those name chasers? Right? Am I missing something? At the end of the day we are trying to either win cattle shows, or produce meat right? So this crazy high dollar club is just one recession away from folks saying "well, at the end of the day, generally speaking, a good commercial steer has the same meat as a purebred that cost me 4 times the money to produce. Right? It seems like bitcoin to me in a way. There is additional value only because there is perceived additional value. A self perpetuating system. I am not saying that any of these groups is not profitable, clearly they are. But the commercial guy is profitable because of good decisions, cost control and market timing. The big name purebred guy is profitable because they convinced a bunch of other purebred folks that his unproven bull is worth a bazilian dollars.</p><p>Not trying to ruffle feathers, just commenting on my view of things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bcompton53, post: 1582922, member: 38094"] Obviously EPDs aren't everything. We've established that. But just looking at Americas numbers, and the accuracies of .05...Those numbers are less than worthless. It's interesting to watch the different facets of the cattle folks. The commercial guys just want to make a dollar or two on a good year, building their herd in whatever way makes that possible, in their location. If that means throwing in some Hereford or semmis or brahma, then that's what will happen. The club cattle folks, well, they are a breed of their own. Then some (not all!) of the purebred guys all trying to use the bull with the biggest political name, in the hopes of getting a couple of those super high dollar sales. The most fragile group seems to be those name chasers? Right? Am I missing something? At the end of the day we are trying to either win cattle shows, or produce meat right? So this crazy high dollar club is just one recession away from folks saying "well, at the end of the day, generally speaking, a good commercial steer has the same meat as a purebred that cost me 4 times the money to produce. Right? It seems like bitcoin to me in a way. There is additional value only because there is perceived additional value. A self perpetuating system. I am not saying that any of these groups is not profitable, clearly they are. But the commercial guy is profitable because of good decisions, cost control and market timing. The big name purebred guy is profitable because they convinced a bunch of other purebred folks that his unproven bull is worth a bazilian dollars. Not trying to ruffle feathers, just commenting on my view of things. [/QUOTE]
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