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<blockquote data-quote="BLL CATTLE" data-source="post: 818372" data-attributes="member: 16340"><p>Hello again, thanks for not running my butt off of here with my rambling statements . Being raised with herefords my whole life and being around lots of angus cattle and different terminal cross breeds I have a strong passion for the direction of this breed. I try to listen and learn something everyday of my life and ONE thing I do know is how valuable the hereford breed is to our industry. Everyday we here more about higher costs of production and predictions of the coming years of world population, whos going to feed the world, all kinds of paper traders talk. Where is our national cow herd heading? Put all our angus in one basket I guess and because there consistantly BLACK thats just the way everyone likes it. Heck no, Oldtimer and all the angus gurus should be proud when they put on their stetsons and head to town and just watch there local auction barn and the quality that walks through the doors. Bunchs of thin backed, short bodied,hard doing average black calves that top the market why,because their black. I guess our industry will never get over the stigmas of the problems that the hereford breed ONCE had, I will never get over the stigma of what angus cattle still have, dont care, hope the breeders I buy my angus bulls from have tried hard to clean up their problems. My point is how can these gentlemen miss the benefits of crossbreeding. Angus, angus and more angus. Does there straight bred commercial angus heifers still out sell there steers as if they were true F1s hereford angus cross? Do there straight bred angus steers out weigh,out perform, out feed, out grade and yield a F1 angus, hereford cross? Yes you will get red calves and I guess this one color stigma is the dividing factor, not bad bags, or cancer eye, or what ever the mind set of these commerical men. I have lots of pride and love what I am doing and the people I sell my genetics to. Today had two gentlemen from North Dakota come and see my operation. Both run registered angus, one just had his production sale the other day even. One bought bulls, and the other bought small package of registered hereford heifers. Long discussion about there breed and our breed and one thing that we both agreed on was that we need each other. I am a proud breeder of hereford cattle and will defend them all day long but still will try to improve this breed. Never before is there a greater time for cross breeding, not just for economical benefits but the improvement of our black national cow herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BLL CATTLE, post: 818372, member: 16340"] Hello again, thanks for not running my butt off of here with my rambling statements . Being raised with herefords my whole life and being around lots of angus cattle and different terminal cross breeds I have a strong passion for the direction of this breed. I try to listen and learn something everyday of my life and ONE thing I do know is how valuable the hereford breed is to our industry. Everyday we here more about higher costs of production and predictions of the coming years of world population, whos going to feed the world, all kinds of paper traders talk. Where is our national cow herd heading? Put all our angus in one basket I guess and because there consistantly BLACK thats just the way everyone likes it. Heck no, Oldtimer and all the angus gurus should be proud when they put on their stetsons and head to town and just watch there local auction barn and the quality that walks through the doors. Bunchs of thin backed, short bodied,hard doing average black calves that top the market why,because their black. I guess our industry will never get over the stigmas of the problems that the hereford breed ONCE had, I will never get over the stigma of what angus cattle still have, dont care, hope the breeders I buy my angus bulls from have tried hard to clean up their problems. My point is how can these gentlemen miss the benefits of crossbreeding. Angus, angus and more angus. Does there straight bred commercial angus heifers still out sell there steers as if they were true F1s hereford angus cross? Do there straight bred angus steers out weigh,out perform, out feed, out grade and yield a F1 angus, hereford cross? Yes you will get red calves and I guess this one color stigma is the dividing factor, not bad bags, or cancer eye, or what ever the mind set of these commerical men. I have lots of pride and love what I am doing and the people I sell my genetics to. Today had two gentlemen from North Dakota come and see my operation. Both run registered angus, one just had his production sale the other day even. One bought bulls, and the other bought small package of registered hereford heifers. Long discussion about there breed and our breed and one thing that we both agreed on was that we need each other. I am a proud breeder of hereford cattle and will defend them all day long but still will try to improve this breed. Never before is there a greater time for cross breeding, not just for economical benefits but the improvement of our black national cow herd. [/QUOTE]
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