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<blockquote data-quote="FlyingLSimmentals" data-source="post: 1417198" data-attributes="member: 16752"><p>Ron, have you never or ever going to price one of your bulls above $2500. I wouldn't ever price one above $2500 if that is all I'm ever gonna be willing to pay for one. Remember a few years back $2500 couldn't hardly buy a Reg. Black Simmental Bull. </p><p></p><p>Also, AI bull calves aren't always kicked out to be awesome and even if they are then his calves are just meant to be average because they aren't from a AI bull. At Seed Stock Sales they preach their bulls up like gold, from such and such sire and cow family etc.... buy one and then try and take one of their calves back to a seed stock sale. Oh if he was an AI bred son or if you can get her AI we'll accept him or her in the sale. No wonder from time to time it's hard to find an outcross.</p><p></p><p>I approach it from a Seed Stock Side as well as a Commercial Cow & Calf side. Because I sell a few seed stock but again most our calves go to the auction barn. So I can see both sides of the coin. The Seed Stock producer has to make money he has a lot of work and upkeep producing replacements and I want him to stay in business. Now selling commercial feeder calves at the sale barn, margins can be tight so I understand pinching pennies on buying replacements "bulls and heifers". But I don't want to rip of the replacement or seed stock producer but I want a bull I can make money with. The best I can remember the bulls we have bought here since I've been big enough to be on the farm ranged from $1800-$2900. I've bid higher than that but have never been lucky enough to get those bulls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlyingLSimmentals, post: 1417198, member: 16752"] Ron, have you never or ever going to price one of your bulls above $2500. I wouldn't ever price one above $2500 if that is all I'm ever gonna be willing to pay for one. Remember a few years back $2500 couldn't hardly buy a Reg. Black Simmental Bull. Also, AI bull calves aren't always kicked out to be awesome and even if they are then his calves are just meant to be average because they aren't from a AI bull. At Seed Stock Sales they preach their bulls up like gold, from such and such sire and cow family etc.... buy one and then try and take one of their calves back to a seed stock sale. Oh if he was an AI bred son or if you can get her AI we'll accept him or her in the sale. No wonder from time to time it's hard to find an outcross. I approach it from a Seed Stock Side as well as a Commercial Cow & Calf side. Because I sell a few seed stock but again most our calves go to the auction barn. So I can see both sides of the coin. The Seed Stock producer has to make money he has a lot of work and upkeep producing replacements and I want him to stay in business. Now selling commercial feeder calves at the sale barn, margins can be tight so I understand pinching pennies on buying replacements "bulls and heifers". But I don't want to rip of the replacement or seed stock producer but I want a bull I can make money with. The best I can remember the bulls we have bought here since I've been big enough to be on the farm ranged from $1800-$2900. I've bid higher than that but have never been lucky enough to get those bulls. [/QUOTE]
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