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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1305607" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>Biggest killer of pricing is small frame. What do you do to get those +20% stocking rate of "efficient cows"? Drop their mature weight. Can you find decent FS 5 cows that weigh 1000 pounds? Sort of a Jersey look, most likely. So to get them to look like beef cows the FS tracks downward. Now they look good. It doesn't take long to learn that the market dictates unless you go the way of the Lone Ranger and try to make an unconventional market. Unconventional market then makes you turn the whole program upside down and you are in the corner with one door to go through, your way or the highway, grunt, push and shove to keep it moving. And it takes more time, more risk, more...</p><p></p><p>Small frame here: dock about $35 to $40 CWT last week. Try 500 pound calf: $175 to $200. Multiply that loss through all of the calves and extras you can raise because the cows are "efficient". It will be some slow walking and some sad singing. You either breed for the market or against it. Two worlds collide: cost of production and market value. Efficiency versus economics. If you cannot sell them for a profit with the least effort, why raise them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1305607, member: 24565"] Biggest killer of pricing is small frame. What do you do to get those +20% stocking rate of "efficient cows"? Drop their mature weight. Can you find decent FS 5 cows that weigh 1000 pounds? Sort of a Jersey look, most likely. So to get them to look like beef cows the FS tracks downward. Now they look good. It doesn't take long to learn that the market dictates unless you go the way of the Lone Ranger and try to make an unconventional market. Unconventional market then makes you turn the whole program upside down and you are in the corner with one door to go through, your way or the highway, grunt, push and shove to keep it moving. And it takes more time, more risk, more... Small frame here: dock about $35 to $40 CWT last week. Try 500 pound calf: $175 to $200. Multiply that loss through all of the calves and extras you can raise because the cows are "efficient". It will be some slow walking and some sad singing. You either breed for the market or against it. Two worlds collide: cost of production and market value. Efficiency versus economics. If you cannot sell them for a profit with the least effort, why raise them? [/QUOTE]
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