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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 685072" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>It really depends on what he wants to do with his calves. I am ~close enough to Cypress's country to infer a lot about his market from our market. I am not in love with THAT Char but in theory using a Char works in this situation. The order buyers dock Longhorn calves and calves showing ear. They typically pay a little premium for Char calves. Hopefully the calves look more Char than Longhorn. IF Cypress is like most folks in the south, he sells his calves straight off the cow at weaning or after a 30-60 day preconditioning phase. The big heavy calves ~600+++ lbs ride a truck to a feedlot either in West Texas or go up north to Kansas, Iowa, or Nebraska. The liteweight calves ~ less than 500 lbs typically go to a backgrounder or a stocker who will put them on winter annuals on cropland or they go to Oklahoma or Texas to graze summer pastures. When they get up to 700-800 lbs they will go on to the feedlots (there are now some people who will put calves as lite as 300 lbs in the feedlots too) for a 100 to 200 days of high energy concentrated ration. Both groups (the feedlots and the stockers are usually shooting for growth). My point is there is a pretty brisk market for those growthy, late maturing type calves that can hang a 1400 pound carcass and still be a Yield Grade 2 (~2/10s of an inch of backfat). I don't believe the Longhorn cows can do that bred to anything; but it is very doable for the Beefmaster and Brangus cows. Just don't keep ANY of the heifers and I think this will work out well. Now if we were running that bull on Beefmaster type cows in someplace like Brazil where they grass finish I would have real concerns about the calves taking too long too finish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 685072, member: 7645"] It really depends on what he wants to do with his calves. I am ~close enough to Cypress's country to infer a lot about his market from our market. I am not in love with THAT Char but in theory using a Char works in this situation. The order buyers dock Longhorn calves and calves showing ear. They typically pay a little premium for Char calves. Hopefully the calves look more Char than Longhorn. IF Cypress is like most folks in the south, he sells his calves straight off the cow at weaning or after a 30-60 day preconditioning phase. The big heavy calves ~600+++ lbs ride a truck to a feedlot either in West Texas or go up north to Kansas, Iowa, or Nebraska. The liteweight calves ~ less than 500 lbs typically go to a backgrounder or a stocker who will put them on winter annuals on cropland or they go to Oklahoma or Texas to graze summer pastures. When they get up to 700-800 lbs they will go on to the feedlots (there are now some people who will put calves as lite as 300 lbs in the feedlots too) for a 100 to 200 days of high energy concentrated ration. Both groups (the feedlots and the stockers are usually shooting for growth). My point is there is a pretty brisk market for those growthy, late maturing type calves that can hang a 1400 pound carcass and still be a Yield Grade 2 (~2/10s of an inch of backfat). I don't believe the Longhorn cows can do that bred to anything; but it is very doable for the Beefmaster and Brangus cows. Just don't keep ANY of the heifers and I think this will work out well. Now if we were running that bull on Beefmaster type cows in someplace like Brazil where they grass finish I would have real concerns about the calves taking too long too finish. [/QUOTE]
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