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Interesting thing I learned last night
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<blockquote data-quote="DLD" data-source="post: 1070166" data-attributes="member: 19707"><p>I don't know why, but it's so hard to get some people to understand this. I have a friend who's been in the cattle business his entire life, runs 100 momma cows. I haul his calves to the sale for him, almost always on sale day, and for at least two years, every time I'd get there to pick them up he'd just have put fresh grain out for them - he'd ask me to let them eat first. They're not big framed cattle and always fleshy, and filling them up just makes it that much worse. Even though he was always disappointed at the price per pound they brought, it took me forever to convince him that having them fat and filling them was costing him. I think he's slowly coming around - at least he doesn't try to fill them the morning of the sale anymore.</p><p></p><p>Maybe even harder is to convince people how much selling fleshy, unweaned calves costs them. When the market's hot (like it is here right now), harder unweaned calves will still sell pretty well, but the fat ones get beat up every time. So many producers can't see the differences, but you can bet that order buyers can - so can the experienced stocker guys (and gals) that buy for themselves.</p><p></p><p>Some of the highest price per pound calves I've ever hauled in was a set I'd have been ashamed of if they'd been mine. They were 9-10 month old calves that weighed 350-400 lbs. They actually did have some frame, and weren't quite as skinny as you might think. Buyers went nuts for 'em.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DLD, post: 1070166, member: 19707"] I don't know why, but it's so hard to get some people to understand this. I have a friend who's been in the cattle business his entire life, runs 100 momma cows. I haul his calves to the sale for him, almost always on sale day, and for at least two years, every time I'd get there to pick them up he'd just have put fresh grain out for them - he'd ask me to let them eat first. They're not big framed cattle and always fleshy, and filling them up just makes it that much worse. Even though he was always disappointed at the price per pound they brought, it took me forever to convince him that having them fat and filling them was costing him. I think he's slowly coming around - at least he doesn't try to fill them the morning of the sale anymore. Maybe even harder is to convince people how much selling fleshy, unweaned calves costs them. When the market's hot (like it is here right now), harder unweaned calves will still sell pretty well, but the fat ones get beat up every time. So many producers can't see the differences, but you can bet that order buyers can - so can the experienced stocker guys (and gals) that buy for themselves. Some of the highest price per pound calves I've ever hauled in was a set I'd have been ashamed of if they'd been mine. They were 9-10 month old calves that weighed 350-400 lbs. They actually did have some frame, and weren't quite as skinny as you might think. Buyers went nuts for 'em. [/QUOTE]
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