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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk" data-source="post: 38866" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>Michelle, a question for you. Are you implying that ranchers that buy and sell cattle through auctions are not reputable, and don't have good herd health management programs? The last thing I want to do is to get into a debate over this issue with a fellow Aggie, but please be aware that there are thousands of great ranching operations out here that raise commercial cross bred calves for the feedlots that neither want or need registered purebred cows. For generations, some of the best cattlemen and women in the world have been buying and selling a quality product through sale barns. If an auction regularly sold inferior cattle, I believe that they would quickly be out of business because people would quit buying there. I have no financial interest whatsoever in any sale barn, but I do utilize their services regularly. I thought your strong statements condemning auctions and those who use them both insulting and self-serving. Asking someone who raises registered cattle how they feel about sale barns is sort of asking a new car dealer how he feels about used cars. Both of them will probably tell you that it is a wreck looking for a place to happen. There is certainly a place in our diverse industry for breeders of registered stock and for private treaty sales, but there is also a very valid place for auctions. There is clearly room for both options and there are many equally reputable, ethical, hard working ranchers in both camps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawk, post: 38866, member: 114"] Michelle, a question for you. Are you implying that ranchers that buy and sell cattle through auctions are not reputable, and don't have good herd health management programs? The last thing I want to do is to get into a debate over this issue with a fellow Aggie, but please be aware that there are thousands of great ranching operations out here that raise commercial cross bred calves for the feedlots that neither want or need registered purebred cows. For generations, some of the best cattlemen and women in the world have been buying and selling a quality product through sale barns. If an auction regularly sold inferior cattle, I believe that they would quickly be out of business because people would quit buying there. I have no financial interest whatsoever in any sale barn, but I do utilize their services regularly. I thought your strong statements condemning auctions and those who use them both insulting and self-serving. Asking someone who raises registered cattle how they feel about sale barns is sort of asking a new car dealer how he feels about used cars. Both of them will probably tell you that it is a wreck looking for a place to happen. There is certainly a place in our diverse industry for breeders of registered stock and for private treaty sales, but there is also a very valid place for auctions. There is clearly room for both options and there are many equally reputable, ethical, hard working ranchers in both camps. [/QUOTE]
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