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<blockquote data-quote="Aero" data-source="post: 1796915" data-attributes="member: 2076"><p>I have been to two of Greg's schools and his methods are the best plan for anyone in the cow-calf business starting out. I like him a lot and found him to have a generous nature and is really working because he likes helping people.</p><p></p><p>Almost everybody should start here to learn or re-learn efficient cattle production. If you execute his plan, you can probably do OK selling at the sale barn <strong>every</strong> year which is very tough using any other model commonly employed in the US.</p><p></p><p>Greg has tried a lot of things that come along to see how they effect his production. He is very straight-forward in determinations of usefulness and usually has tried it long enough to know what he is talking about. I asked a few times about why things didn't work and he mostly said he didnt know but it didn't matter because it wasn't effective for him - so he moved on. I admire this in him because I get hung up on deep understanding of why things work or don't but he can sort through good and bad options quickly this way.</p><p></p><p>Production is the easy part of farming/ranching. The Achilles heel of every cattle operation appears to be marketing and that isn't really addressed in his teachings. He has every contact in the country and a daily platform that more than doubles the value of animals selling simply due to more eyeballs makes more bidders. To get any real premiums for the average producer, the producer will have to find a marketing program that fits this production. The diverse enterprises at Green Pastures only work because he has a buyer for almost anything he raises. Few farmers want to be called a marketer but it is required if you want to make any real money.</p><p></p><p>One place that Greg and I diverge is on seedstock sales. I think that 90% of cattle producers aren't ready to be in seedstock and virtually none of people new to cattle should be thinking about it. Seedstock relies heavily on reputation, consistency, discipline, records and data which is pretty tough from Greg's animals because they have no records other than their ear tag and how they look. As soon as a bull leaves Greg's they are commercial bulls only tied to their origins by a bill of sale. This isn't a big deal really, just something to understand because it isn't as easy as it looks from the outside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aero, post: 1796915, member: 2076"] I have been to two of Greg's schools and his methods are the best plan for anyone in the cow-calf business starting out. I like him a lot and found him to have a generous nature and is really working because he likes helping people. Almost everybody should start here to learn or re-learn efficient cattle production. If you execute his plan, you can probably do OK selling at the sale barn [B]every[/B] year which is very tough using any other model commonly employed in the US. Greg has tried a lot of things that come along to see how they effect his production. He is very straight-forward in determinations of usefulness and usually has tried it long enough to know what he is talking about. I asked a few times about why things didn't work and he mostly said he didnt know but it didn't matter because it wasn't effective for him - so he moved on. I admire this in him because I get hung up on deep understanding of why things work or don't but he can sort through good and bad options quickly this way. Production is the easy part of farming/ranching. The Achilles heel of every cattle operation appears to be marketing and that isn't really addressed in his teachings. He has every contact in the country and a daily platform that more than doubles the value of animals selling simply due to more eyeballs makes more bidders. To get any real premiums for the average producer, the producer will have to find a marketing program that fits this production. The diverse enterprises at Green Pastures only work because he has a buyer for almost anything he raises. Few farmers want to be called a marketer but it is required if you want to make any real money. One place that Greg and I diverge is on seedstock sales. I think that 90% of cattle producers aren't ready to be in seedstock and virtually none of people new to cattle should be thinking about it. Seedstock relies heavily on reputation, consistency, discipline, records and data which is pretty tough from Greg's animals because they have no records other than their ear tag and how they look. As soon as a bull leaves Greg's they are commercial bulls only tied to their origins by a bill of sale. This isn't a big deal really, just something to understand because it isn't as easy as it looks from the outside. [/QUOTE]
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