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| Yet most people that I know want to feed yearlings. Way more efficient, generally grade better, but also can be fed to the gigantic weights we see today. Watched low 600 pound steers bring well over $1900 yesterday. They weren't headed for any feedlot. The world changed when over weight carcasses more or less went away. As northerngrazer pointed out there are more things that matter to the cow calf guy than growth. Another little secret, the "increased growth" in seedstock came with increased milk production and increased appetite. Both bad things for brood cows if you keep going down that road and the big reason weaning weights have been flat for decades. There is a point when they will eat more than you can afford to feed them. Not much of a concern for the guys selling bulls that again, have never had to make a dime selling cattle by the pound. | |
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Bad bull math on Working Ranch Radio
