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<blockquote data-quote="smnherf" data-source="post: 711421" data-attributes="member: 3235"><p>There are a lot of reasons why. The industry is just starting to focus more and more on cow size and efficiency. The beef industry doesn't change over night. It takes a long time to turn over an entire cowherd.</p><p> </p><p>I have fed enough cattle and tracked individual performance on enough of them to realize that frame score alone is a relatively poor indicator of performance. Many cases the largest framed cattle are some of the slower growers. You actually have to use a scale in order to tell though. </p><p> </p><p>We need to get away from the idea that you have to have frame in order to grow. This may have been true when the frame craze came about and there was a huge push for more performance and growth, but today there are getting to be a lot more frame 5 bulls out there that will sire calves that will outgrow the frame 7 cattle of yesterday. There are a lot of cattle that get bought based on averages and assumptions that may or may not be true with todays genetics. Order buyers and feedlots are a stubborn lot and are very slow to change their old theories.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smnherf, post: 711421, member: 3235"] There are a lot of reasons why. The industry is just starting to focus more and more on cow size and efficiency. The beef industry doesn't change over night. It takes a long time to turn over an entire cowherd. I have fed enough cattle and tracked individual performance on enough of them to realize that frame score alone is a relatively poor indicator of performance. Many cases the largest framed cattle are some of the slower growers. You actually have to use a scale in order to tell though. We need to get away from the idea that you have to have frame in order to grow. This may have been true when the frame craze came about and there was a huge push for more performance and growth, but today there are getting to be a lot more frame 5 bulls out there that will sire calves that will outgrow the frame 7 cattle of yesterday. There are a lot of cattle that get bought based on averages and assumptions that may or may not be true with todays genetics. Order buyers and feedlots are a stubborn lot and are very slow to change their old theories. [/QUOTE]
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