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<blockquote data-quote="Aero" data-source="post: 1746665" data-attributes="member: 2076"><p><em>[Edit - When I go back and read this, it sounds somewhat hostile and accusatory but that is not the intention. I am 100% happy to be in the wrong and learn something!]</em></p><p></p><p>I can see this pencilling out at some point but not the direction I am heading. It just seems like a hard path with little added value expected while giving away the rare genetics you already have.</p><p></p><p>Selling bulls to commercial producers sounds like a large market but I don't know many producers selling weaned calves at the sale barn who would choose a Murray Grey over an Angus, or Simmental even if they are keeping all the heifers. I am sure that I will have to compromise too much of what I think is important to make a bull that still can't compete with average mainstream performance genetics. There is no point in trying to be more Angus than an Angus - they're decades ahead of you on converting a moderate, maternal, grass finishing female into a growth rocket ship and hundreds of bulls can be used for really cheap.</p><p></p><p>Great grass finishing genetics is much more rare and critical to a higher value product. With this sector exploding, very few have real grass-finishing seedstock available and almost everybody is just fattening whatever they have - whether it actually was made for it or not. I'll be linebreeding Beaver Creek genetics because I have seen the ribeyes on grass and know there is added value in animals that can do that on grass. Clearly, problems will come up but I can't let go of the work that's already been done.</p><p></p><p>If I need to sell to a larger market, commercial guys can put my Aubrac-Murray Grey F1 females with any old black bull on them and make better profit with a moderate, maternal mama cow. As for males, 24 month old steers are bringing as much as a lot of seedstock from the folks I talk to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aero, post: 1746665, member: 2076"] [I][Edit - When I go back and read this, it sounds somewhat hostile and accusatory but that is not the intention. I am 100% happy to be in the wrong and learn something!][/I] I can see this pencilling out at some point but not the direction I am heading. It just seems like a hard path with little added value expected while giving away the rare genetics you already have. Selling bulls to commercial producers sounds like a large market but I don't know many producers selling weaned calves at the sale barn who would choose a Murray Grey over an Angus, or Simmental even if they are keeping all the heifers. I am sure that I will have to compromise too much of what I think is important to make a bull that still can't compete with average mainstream performance genetics. There is no point in trying to be more Angus than an Angus - they're decades ahead of you on converting a moderate, maternal, grass finishing female into a growth rocket ship and hundreds of bulls can be used for really cheap. Great grass finishing genetics is much more rare and critical to a higher value product. With this sector exploding, very few have real grass-finishing seedstock available and almost everybody is just fattening whatever they have - whether it actually was made for it or not. I'll be linebreeding Beaver Creek genetics because I have seen the ribeyes on grass and know there is added value in animals that can do that on grass. Clearly, problems will come up but I can't let go of the work that's already been done. If I need to sell to a larger market, commercial guys can put my Aubrac-Murray Grey F1 females with any old black bull on them and make better profit with a moderate, maternal mama cow. As for males, 24 month old steers are bringing as much as a lot of seedstock from the folks I talk to. [/QUOTE]
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