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after they leave your ranch . Repeat buyers should become the norm .
• In addition to simplifying breeding management and marketing , it also allows for improved operational efficiency and increased profitability . By placing all the cows in one herd , you make all aspects of management simpler . It also greatly facilitates good grazing management , which will add far more to profit than genetics .
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I know several producers doing this . One is even a very large producer . They tend to buy the late-calving cows from herds in similar locations . Often the purchased cows are a little younger and will tend to breed earlier in the next year or two .
They purchase bulls that favor growth and carcass traits along with adequate calving ease . Most of these operators are calving on the range .
AUTO STRAWBERRY 431D Offered by Pinegar Limousin
MAGS XANTHOUS Offered by Glendenning J Bar J Limousin
Quite often , the bulls are composite or hybrid bulls associated with a breed or organization that makes EPDs available . Since no heifer calves are retained , culling is somewhat easier . Cow culling is limited to open cows , dry cows and cows that are beginning to fail — bad udders , poor body condition , eye problems , lameness , etc .
CELL 4418B Offered by Grandview Acres Limousin Farm
AUTO EXCITEMENT 405E Offered by Pinegar Limousin
On the other hand , herds using maternal matings to make good mother cows cannot be as profitable as terminal mating herds unless they are able to sell bred cows at a nice premium over cull cow price . If you are going to raise your own replacements and not sell a good number of bred cows , you will not be as profitable as you would in a strictly terminal mating situation .
Making maternal matings does not mean that you ignore growth and carcass , but they are not nearly as important as other traits . In cow herds , stocking rate , fertility and survivability
AUTO ANTONELA 244A Offered by Graven Land & Cattle
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AUCTIONEER : C . K . “ Sonny ” Booth
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