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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 793428" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Open cows in a cow/calf operation seem to me to be one of the most severe problems in the cow/calf business. How can anyone stay in business with 10, 15 or 30% less income than you had planned? Are the rest of them going to be that profitable that you can stand a 15% reduction in saleable output?</p><p></p><p>As Dun points out, this year the hamburger cow market is strong enough to provide a decent price for open cows. However I sense that folks with a lot of open cows don't take open cows to market when discovered.</p><p></p><p>One of the reasons I don't AI is that you still likely go to all that expense and trouble, maybe even twice, and still have 30% open or so. They must still have a cleanup bull so you have to maintain a bull anyway so why not just let a good bull handle things (except in a specialty breeding program)?</p><p></p><p>My vet also last week was relating an experience with another customer of his who had a LOT of open cows at preg check recently.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 793428, member: 7509"] Open cows in a cow/calf operation seem to me to be one of the most severe problems in the cow/calf business. How can anyone stay in business with 10, 15 or 30% less income than you had planned? Are the rest of them going to be that profitable that you can stand a 15% reduction in saleable output? As Dun points out, this year the hamburger cow market is strong enough to provide a decent price for open cows. However I sense that folks with a lot of open cows don't take open cows to market when discovered. One of the reasons I don't AI is that you still likely go to all that expense and trouble, maybe even twice, and still have 30% open or so. They must still have a cleanup bull so you have to maintain a bull anyway so why not just let a good bull handle things (except in a specialty breeding program)? My vet also last week was relating an experience with another customer of his who had a LOT of open cows at preg check recently. Jim [/QUOTE]
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