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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Sansom" data-source="post: 142477" data-attributes="member: 332"><p>I tell them exactly what I have told you above - These cattle will make you profitable heifers and the steers will sell well also - even to the feedlot guys.</p><p></p><p>Why??? Because you get more money per pound of calf at lower weight, you can run 10 to 20 percent more cattle of my type on the same acres, (cows eat 2.5% body weight whether they are 1200 or 1500 lbs) and your net profit PER ACRE will be higher. Do corn producers figure $ per stalk - NO they figure $/acre. When you can run more head on the same size farm, the calves sell for more $/lb - you will gross more money on the same farm. Sure you can not sit around the feed mill while they are mixing your feed and waiting for you to write a check and brag about your 700+ lb weaning weight - But Your Banker will love you.</p><p></p><p>The grass finishers are an option few will take- even though they can make massive profit - These cattle will do well in a feed lot. Some feedlots must learn to sell cattle when they are ready - rather than waiting for the whole pen to weigh 1300+ lbs. That is THEIR problem - mine is to maximize the profit on MY farm.</p><p></p><p>The option is still there to breed these heifers to a continental breed to maximize growth and still run the same larger number of cows on the same farm. You can not get frame 5 cows breeding to 7+ frame bulls and keeping heifers. Many breed to forage efficient bulls to their heifers and best cows to multiply the herd, and breed the rest to a growth - high input bull- and sell all those calves. What they do and how they manage is their business - I tell them how to get maximum profit. Many people just can not get over the Bigger is better thinking - until they figure their cost and net profit. Must be why most of my bulls go to repeat buyers - and I sell out before any reach 18 months old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Sansom, post: 142477, member: 332"] I tell them exactly what I have told you above - These cattle will make you profitable heifers and the steers will sell well also - even to the feedlot guys. Why??? Because you get more money per pound of calf at lower weight, you can run 10 to 20 percent more cattle of my type on the same acres, (cows eat 2.5% body weight whether they are 1200 or 1500 lbs) and your net profit PER ACRE will be higher. Do corn producers figure $ per stalk - NO they figure $/acre. When you can run more head on the same size farm, the calves sell for more $/lb - you will gross more money on the same farm. Sure you can not sit around the feed mill while they are mixing your feed and waiting for you to write a check and brag about your 700+ lb weaning weight - But Your Banker will love you. The grass finishers are an option few will take- even though they can make massive profit - These cattle will do well in a feed lot. Some feedlots must learn to sell cattle when they are ready - rather than waiting for the whole pen to weigh 1300+ lbs. That is THEIR problem - mine is to maximize the profit on MY farm. The option is still there to breed these heifers to a continental breed to maximize growth and still run the same larger number of cows on the same farm. You can not get frame 5 cows breeding to 7+ frame bulls and keeping heifers. Many breed to forage efficient bulls to their heifers and best cows to multiply the herd, and breed the rest to a growth - high input bull- and sell all those calves. What they do and how they manage is their business - I tell them how to get maximum profit. Many people just can not get over the Bigger is better thinking - until they figure their cost and net profit. Must be why most of my bulls go to repeat buyers - and I sell out before any reach 18 months old. [/QUOTE]
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