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<blockquote data-quote="bcarty" data-source="post: 1005465" data-attributes="member: 17617"><p>Dr. Selk is a big proponent of having two short defined seasons in both the spring and the fall. His logic is sound in the fact that by having two seasons you are not as restricted by the market and you have two sets of calves instead of the proverbial all your eggs in one basket. He talks about needed to generate at least 20 steers to take advantage of lot size, and that is true at the sale barn. He is a smart man and his theory is true for majority of producers who have small numbers. Our operation is at a 65 year low in terms of cow numbers and we want to get back to 300-350 cow range and with than number I will be generating around 200 calves to send to market. I dont plan on using a sale barn to market my calves. I just need to get all my calves as uniform as possible so I can send them to the feedlot all as a set. </p><p></p><p>I think I am just going to start developing all heifers to calve in the fall and cull more aggressively on the spring herd. Eventually I will get rid of the last few old spring cows and be all fall calving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bcarty, post: 1005465, member: 17617"] Dr. Selk is a big proponent of having two short defined seasons in both the spring and the fall. His logic is sound in the fact that by having two seasons you are not as restricted by the market and you have two sets of calves instead of the proverbial all your eggs in one basket. He talks about needed to generate at least 20 steers to take advantage of lot size, and that is true at the sale barn. He is a smart man and his theory is true for majority of producers who have small numbers. Our operation is at a 65 year low in terms of cow numbers and we want to get back to 300-350 cow range and with than number I will be generating around 200 calves to send to market. I dont plan on using a sale barn to market my calves. I just need to get all my calves as uniform as possible so I can send them to the feedlot all as a set. I think I am just going to start developing all heifers to calve in the fall and cull more aggressively on the spring herd. Eventually I will get rid of the last few old spring cows and be all fall calving. [/QUOTE]
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