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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1795135" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>LOL... I get what you're saying and congratulate you on your "landed" animals and how they do well on what you have.</p><p></p><p>I had to notice your last sentence, "Has anyone else ever noticed how rarely top performance type cattle actually improve things.... ", preceded by, "More often I bring in a bargain basement addition... ".</p><p></p><p>I wonder how that figures in to the results you get?</p><p></p><p>It's really not as much about the money you are spending as much as the results you are getting, IMO. I see people spending lots of money on EPDs without thinking about what kind of calves they will be selling. There are a lot of EPD bulls that cost a lot and throw calves that look like crap and sell badly. The buyers aren't looking at your EPDs or how much your bull cost. They are looking at the calves they are bidding on at the time they are bidding. If the bull you use doesn't improve the looks of the calves going through the sale ring then it doesn't matter what the bull cost. </p><p></p><p>Sorry, that's probably more than I should have said but the soap box beckoned and I got on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1795135, member: 42463"] LOL... I get what you're saying and congratulate you on your "landed" animals and how they do well on what you have. I had to notice your last sentence, "Has anyone else ever noticed how rarely top performance type cattle actually improve things.... ", preceded by, "More often I bring in a bargain basement addition... ". I wonder how that figures in to the results you get? It's really not as much about the money you are spending as much as the results you are getting, IMO. I see people spending lots of money on EPDs without thinking about what kind of calves they will be selling. There are a lot of EPD bulls that cost a lot and throw calves that look like crap and sell badly. The buyers aren't looking at your EPDs or how much your bull cost. They are looking at the calves they are bidding on at the time they are bidding. If the bull you use doesn't improve the looks of the calves going through the sale ring then it doesn't matter what the bull cost. Sorry, that's probably more than I should have said but the soap box beckoned and I got on it. [/QUOTE]
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