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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 267634" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Not wanting to get into the hobby farmer argument as I am quite a few thousand miles from you guys and would not really know what I speak of as regards to your situation I just want to offer my opinion on the situation here in SA.</p><p></p><p>Quite a few of the so-called more influential seedstock producers in SA are rich businessmen who practises purebred breeding as a high profile hobby. The main interest being success in the showring and well published record topping sales.</p><p>The added benefit would be the tax write-offs.</p><p></p><p>The consequences of this is that the cattle are overfed (they want to write the loss off as tax, anyway) to produce even more overfed show type cattle with little regard to the natural environment where the commercial farmer has to produce offspring from these record topping bulls. The result being high maintenance,large framed cows that simply don't produce in our arid environment. Now the rest of the purebred breeders that don't operate that way is usually the runt of the "purebred family" and the good bulls they produce are being talked down by the highprofile hobbyist resulting in more commercial cattlemen falling into the same trap. The vicious circle just continues.</p><p></p><p>Now this is the type of hobbyist that really hurts the industry, at least here in my part of the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 267634, member: 4353"] Not wanting to get into the hobby farmer argument as I am quite a few thousand miles from you guys and would not really know what I speak of as regards to your situation I just want to offer my opinion on the situation here in SA. Quite a few of the so-called more influential seedstock producers in SA are rich businessmen who practises purebred breeding as a high profile hobby. The main interest being success in the showring and well published record topping sales. The added benefit would be the tax write-offs. The consequences of this is that the cattle are overfed (they want to write the loss off as tax, anyway) to produce even more overfed show type cattle with little regard to the natural environment where the commercial farmer has to produce offspring from these record topping bulls. The result being high maintenance,large framed cows that simply don't produce in our arid environment. Now the rest of the purebred breeders that don't operate that way is usually the runt of the "purebred family" and the good bulls they produce are being talked down by the highprofile hobbyist resulting in more commercial cattlemen falling into the same trap. The vicious circle just continues. Now this is the type of hobbyist that really hurts the industry, at least here in my part of the world. [/QUOTE]
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