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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1178739" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>You need to ask your buyer what his grid looks like before you start trying to fix things. </p><p>What you're already doing looks really good for MOST grids. Most of them will pay a premium for YG1 and sometimes 2 and most won't discount for YG3. Almost all of them pay premiums for choice.</p><p>In your situation, if your buyer was selling to someone like US premium beef, for example, he/she likely received a premium for almost every calf in addition to the no discounts. Your YG1's and some of the twos were likely the selects and your choice calves were likely in the YG3 and some in the two. Either way they received a premium. There would likely be very few calves in the YG3 and select category which is the only group of cattle in your scenario that don't receive a premium and they still don't get a discount.</p><p>I would not change much without finding out what grid your buyer is looking at. Other than that I would focus on quality grade over yield but not so extreme that you lose having all YG1-3. If you can identify the cows that are giving you the YG1-2 and breed them to a well marbled angus and then take your almost pure english cows and breed them simangus/balancer or something like that then you'd be as close to perfect as any of us ever get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1178739, member: 14661"] You need to ask your buyer what his grid looks like before you start trying to fix things. What you're already doing looks really good for MOST grids. Most of them will pay a premium for YG1 and sometimes 2 and most won't discount for YG3. Almost all of them pay premiums for choice. In your situation, if your buyer was selling to someone like US premium beef, for example, he/she likely received a premium for almost every calf in addition to the no discounts. Your YG1's and some of the twos were likely the selects and your choice calves were likely in the YG3 and some in the two. Either way they received a premium. There would likely be very few calves in the YG3 and select category which is the only group of cattle in your scenario that don't receive a premium and they still don't get a discount. I would not change much without finding out what grid your buyer is looking at. Other than that I would focus on quality grade over yield but not so extreme that you lose having all YG1-3. If you can identify the cows that are giving you the YG1-2 and breed them to a well marbled angus and then take your almost pure english cows and breed them simangus/balancer or something like that then you'd be as close to perfect as any of us ever get. [/QUOTE]
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