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<blockquote data-quote="Susie David" data-source="post: 493920" data-attributes="member: 1744"><p>Goals like your business plan is a living enity, constantaly changing as you evaluate your program and make the changes necessary to improve upon the current situation. Culling and herd reduction is a necessary part of the operation although not always planned as well as is new genetics being added to improve upon your goals. </p><p>We culled real hard this fall and considered going to strictly a feeder operation due to the limited availability of reasonably priced hay...still under consideration. We did keep some cows and heifers that are easy keepers. We have a pasture lease opportunity to consider and will modify our goals and plans as the weather dictates this spring and summer. The local hay grower's association has let it be known that feeder quality hay will start at $200.00 a ton this year; if this is the case then we'll probably just keep a few steers to satisfy the orders on the board and maybe a cow or two and really go into semi-retirement.</p><p>Would like to stay around long enough to see how the Limousin influence that we introduced this year yields in the calves...the only calf so far is a real sweewtheart and gaining rapidly.</p><p>I'm ambling on again...</p><p>Anyway...goals are changed as the situation is effected by the effect of outside factors, the market, the weather, the availability of new genetics, a change in family or ecomonic factors.</p><p>Just my two bits worth.....DMc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Susie David, post: 493920, member: 1744"] Goals like your business plan is a living enity, constantaly changing as you evaluate your program and make the changes necessary to improve upon the current situation. Culling and herd reduction is a necessary part of the operation although not always planned as well as is new genetics being added to improve upon your goals. We culled real hard this fall and considered going to strictly a feeder operation due to the limited availability of reasonably priced hay...still under consideration. We did keep some cows and heifers that are easy keepers. We have a pasture lease opportunity to consider and will modify our goals and plans as the weather dictates this spring and summer. The local hay grower's association has let it be known that feeder quality hay will start at $200.00 a ton this year; if this is the case then we'll probably just keep a few steers to satisfy the orders on the board and maybe a cow or two and really go into semi-retirement. Would like to stay around long enough to see how the Limousin influence that we introduced this year yields in the calves...the only calf so far is a real sweewtheart and gaining rapidly. I'm ambling on again... Anyway...goals are changed as the situation is effected by the effect of outside factors, the market, the weather, the availability of new genetics, a change in family or ecomonic factors. Just my two bits worth.....DMc [/QUOTE]
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