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<blockquote data-quote="Elder Statesman" data-source="post: 602157" data-attributes="member: 7371"><p>It baffles me why people in a drought area would be keeping back a bunch of bulls. Who do they think is going to buy them? Of course, when I see someone advertising some 9 month old bulls, I'm have to wonder if they didn't want to go to the trouble of cutting them and are trying to peddle what should be steers as breeding stock. I would have to guess that the majority of these bulls have no ultra-sound data and many probably haven't had actual weaning or yearling weights taken. Having bulls for sale doesn't mean they are selling breeding stock. I'm sorry to be an @$$ about this but there are too many people trying to sell bulls that don't give crap about their customers and whether their product will benefit the industry. They just flood the market with a bunch of cheap bulls that should have been cut. And it has nothing to do with the size of the operation either. I know several guys who sell 5-15 bulls a year who go to the trouble of collecting carcass data and weights, and follow their customers cattle thru the feedlots. They sell quality animals and get paid a decent price from cattlemen who know their business.</p><p></p><p>As I said before, a sharp knife and understanding supply and demand are great tools in the seedstock business. If you can sell 12 bulls a year at $1500 or higher, just keep back 10 bulls if you plan on staying in the business very long. You can't use the Henry Ford mentallity of selling a higher volume for a lower price. The profit margin is just too narrow in the cattle business to make that work, especially with today's high input costs. </p><p></p><p>Sorry for the sermon, I will crawl off the soap box and go back to my cave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elder Statesman, post: 602157, member: 7371"] It baffles me why people in a drought area would be keeping back a bunch of bulls. Who do they think is going to buy them? Of course, when I see someone advertising some 9 month old bulls, I'm have to wonder if they didn't want to go to the trouble of cutting them and are trying to peddle what should be steers as breeding stock. I would have to guess that the majority of these bulls have no ultra-sound data and many probably haven't had actual weaning or yearling weights taken. Having bulls for sale doesn't mean they are selling breeding stock. I'm sorry to be an @$$ about this but there are too many people trying to sell bulls that don't give crap about their customers and whether their product will benefit the industry. They just flood the market with a bunch of cheap bulls that should have been cut. And it has nothing to do with the size of the operation either. I know several guys who sell 5-15 bulls a year who go to the trouble of collecting carcass data and weights, and follow their customers cattle thru the feedlots. They sell quality animals and get paid a decent price from cattlemen who know their business. As I said before, a sharp knife and understanding supply and demand are great tools in the seedstock business. If you can sell 12 bulls a year at $1500 or higher, just keep back 10 bulls if you plan on staying in the business very long. You can't use the Henry Ford mentallity of selling a higher volume for a lower price. The profit margin is just too narrow in the cattle business to make that work, especially with today's high input costs. Sorry for the sermon, I will crawl off the soap box and go back to my cave. [/QUOTE]
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